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Are You Ready for Tamar and Vince on WE TV?

The reality show will spotlight Tamar as she tries to make a name for herself as a bonafide singer, and how she and her husband manage to mix business with pleasure while keeping it all in the family. ...

Sep 19, 2012 Posted by The Cubicle Chick In Boob Tube, Just Like Music, Watercooler Tagged Braxton Family Values, marriage, music, Reality TV, Tamar and Vince, Tamar Braxton, We TV

Summer Wedding Series: Proper Rules of Engagement Wedding Style

Event Planner Danyel Biue discusses proper etiquette surrounding a wedding engagement. For the bride and groom to be, these Do's and Dont's are proper when a couple gets engaged. ...

Jul 31, 2012 Posted by Danyel Buie In Contributors, Event Planning, Food/Party Ideas, Weddings Tagged Bride, Danyel Buie, etiquette, event planning, Groom, marriage, Tips, wedding engagement, weddings

Is Choosing Kids First, Marriage Later the New Career Path?

When it comes to the workforce, many things have changed, but one thing seemed to remain the same: most working class and professional types are pursuing the same goal — career, then marriage, and then a family. ...

Aug 12, 2011 Posted by The Cubicle Chick In Cubicle Life, The Water Cooler Tagged career, children, Family, marriage, work, workplace

He’s Cheating On Me With His Blackberry

Tweet“I used to say that my ex boyfriend’s Blackberry was his mistress…”— my friend Danielle. It is so easy these days to become addicted to technology. It is everywhere around us and we are virtually force fed into getting the latest gadgetry and tech item on the market. Most of us carry smartphones to email, text, tweet, and check the Internet, and we cannot seem to break away from them, even when we are with our loved ones spending quality time. But when your man cannot seem to fit you in because he stays on his Blackerry or iPhone—what’s a girl to do? I too struggle with the “Blackberry is his mistress” syndrome. In my relationship, he is always plugged into the Matrix because it is a part of his job. It’s a necessary evil and it pays the bills, so who am I to come in between that. But ...

Oct 26, 2010 Posted by The Cubicle Chick In Relationships, Techy Geek Tagged Blackberry, dating, Internet, iPhone, marriage, Relationships, Smartphones, texting

Put a Ring On It: How Long is Too Long To Live Together?

TweetThere has recently been a huge uproar surrounding No Wedding, No Womb, a movement started by a single mother who wants to end the supposed destruction of the Black family. But while I am not a supporter of #NWNW, I do see where the premise could be something positive in the community (before all of the name-calling and epithets that made it a comical event at best). But as women put off marriage for their careers and other “obligations”, how long is too long for cohabiting? When is it time to get married? This was also brought to my attention during Bravo’s Flipping Out. In the reality series, Jeff Lewis’s sister-in-law assistant said that she had ben living with her beau for ten years and had not gotten engaged. 10 years?! How long does it take before there should be a marital commitment on the part of the relationship? In ...

Oct 5, 2010 Posted by The Cubicle Chick In Relationships, Watercooler, women's issues Tagged Family, marriage, No Wedding No Womb, Relationships

Who the (Bleep) Did You Marry?

TweetWhile flipping through the channels on my boob tube, I came across a show last night called ‘Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry’, a docu-drama esque show on Discovery ID that talks about women being married to men they didn’t really know. In this ongoing series, it turns out that these husbands ended up being bigamists. serial killers, and in one case, the husband was a woman. It got me to thinking, how can you marry someone that you really don’t know? And even more, how can one go years married to someone and truly not know who they really are? Marriage is a lifelong commitment. And in this day and age, people do not take it seriously. Getting married because you love someone is not reason enough to get married—getting married because you love someone, you respect them, you like them, you cannot see yourself being without them, AND ...

Aug 26, 2010 Posted by The Cubicle Chick In Boob Tube, Family Ties, women's issues Tagged Cable Television, Discovery ID, marriage, Relationships, Television programs, Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?

Working With Your Loved One Has It’s Pros & Cons

TweetA few years ago, I worked as an Human Resources manager for a couple who owned a franchise here in St. Louis. They were married with two children and decided to buy a franchise together and run it has husband, wife, and business partners. She was in charge of the customer service side, he was in charge of the sales side. From the outside looking in, this was a happy marriage of both love and work, but as a manager, I saw the scars working together had left on their marriage. To most of the employees who were on the frontline, they had the dream life. But to myself and others who were privy to the behind-the-scenes drama, it was anything but. Working with your loved ones has it’s pros and cons. I have never worked professionally with someone I was dating, but I have worked with relatives. I actually ...

Jul 6, 2010 Posted by The Cubicle Chick In Family Ties, Relationships, The Water Cooler Tagged dating, employers, marriage, Relationships, work issues

Media’s Fascination With Single Black Women & Why It’s Getting On My Nerves

Tweet“Don’t believe the hype…” –Public Enemy If you are a black woman and watched ABC’s Nightline Single Black Women special panel on Wednesday night, you are probably pissed. I know that I was. And it wasn’t because of the nature of the conversation but the blatant media spin and bias that would lead the public to think that we as single black women are poor lost souls who cannot find a man. Believe you me, that is furthest from the truth. What could’ve been an intelligent conversation about problems between both black men and women turned into a fluffy headpiece about men unbraiding our hair and taking down our weaves. I was totally appalled and saddened that it has come down to this. Again, the media has taken a topic and drilled it to death, until it reached its very last compound of silliness. What is the media’s fascination with ...

Apr 25, 2010 Posted by admin In A Side Note Tagged black women, Love, marriage, Relationships, television

If You Were Elin, What Would You Do?

TweetI haven’t blogged about the whole Tiger Woods saga because really, there is nothing much left to say that hasn’t been written. I don’t want to continue to discuss something that has been run into the ground. But I hear a lot of women saying what they think Elin should do and I find it difficult to try to step into the shoes of a woman who is going through so much. It is easy for us on the outside looking in saying what we would do if we were in her situation, but its easier said than done. Elin is first of all a mother of two children. And she is also a wife, a wife of an uber famous man who has been caught with his pants down. She could play he whole stand by your man thing that so many others in the past have done and ...

Feb 23, 2010 Posted by admin In A Side Note, The Water Cooler Tagged affairs, cheating, marriage, Relationships

Fake Marriage Proposal On Live TV?

TweetFirst the ‘Balloon Boy’ hoax and now this! During a New York Rangers hockey game on Valentines Day this past Sunday, a guy proposes to his would be bride on the stadium jumbotron in front of everyone in attendance and those watching on television. But instead of a happy ending, the woman failed to accept. As a matter of fact, it was quite embarrassing. Here’s the video: Well according to Yahoo Sports, the entire thing was a hoax. The couple, it turns out, were paid actors who were hired to give “in game” entertainment. I guess because it was Valentines Day, the Rangers thought it would be a good idea to fake its audience out. Little did they know it would get out in the media. Why do companies and individuals think they can ‘Punk’ us into falling for these guises? The truth always comes out in the end and ...

Feb 17, 2010 Posted by admin In The Cubicle Chick Does Video, The Cubicle Chick Don't, The Water Cooler Tagged live television, marriage, reality television