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Sometimes, the retreat is done in anger for any number of possibilities. You feel like you’re constantly being critiqued. You feel as if your opinion isn’t valued. You feel like an understudy. Politeness has been replaced by snappy comebacks and bickering. It doesn’t make anyone want to engage. “I don’t know anyone who likes to be browbeaten,” says Lesli Doares, licensed marriage and family therapist outside Raleigh, North Carolina and creator of the Hero Husband Project....

Women’s capacity to achieve more outside of the home has not puzzled social scientists in the past, but men’s inability to pick up the slack even when they are not primary earners has. A massive Harvard study indicates that when more men were out of work during the last recession and their wives became the breadwinners, many of them rarely took on more household chores. (It should be noted that when they did, this mitigated the increased divorce risk associated with husbands’ unemployment....

My wife and I love their friendship. We’ve always believed there’s a place for every friendship, and that everyone, regardless of gender, should be validated for the uniqueness of the bond. What has surprised us, though, is everyone else’s attitude towards Jackson and Emma’s friendship. A lot of other adults shoehorn the two of them into weird societal mile markers of sex and gender roles. We see it constantly. Others refer to Jack and Emma as though there’s a predestined future looming....

“Females seem to be more vulnerable, at a neurochemical level, in developing an addiction to cannabis,” study coauthor Liana Fattore, a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy and President of the Mediterranean Society of Neuroscience, said in a statement. “Interactions between the endocannabinoid system and the brain level of dopamine—the neurotransmitter of “pleasure” and “reward”—are sex-dependent.” Estradiol seems to be the culprit—a form of estrogen which drives sexual functioning, and also seems to influence how rats respond to intoxication....

“She’s your wife, not your 10-year-old cousin who still exclusively shops at Best Buy” read one text. “A gift card? Do you not like her anymore?” read another. Another: “Was it to purchase a new husband?” On and on the ribbing went until Chris finally sent back a simple retort: you guys are idiots. This is undeniable. But Chris is, too, because he opened himself up to the salvo because he didn’t provide context....

What Is the Wim Hof Method? Wim Hof holds that by controlling your breath in a very specific way, exposing yourself to cold temperatures, and meditating, you can achieve some pretty impressive health and wellness results. Breathing is central to the Wim Hof method. To perform Wim Hof breathing, take a strong breath, similar to a powerful sniff, through your nose and release it in a relaxed way from your mouth....

Working moms can’t win, and the pandemic has just made that divide even larger and more impossible. While it’s been tough for all moms, a new study shows that some states have been better than others for working moms juggling it all during the pandemic. Here’s what we know. Here’s How the Data Was Compiled Finance site WalletHub wanted to find out which states are best suited for working moms amid the pandemic burdens, including child care professional opportunities and work-life balance....

Moms For Liberty, a nonprofit whose idea of being “dedicated to fighting for the survival of America” — and certainly must include one person named “Karen” — is offering to pay $500 for anyone who can catch teachers in New Hampshire discussing racism or sexism in school, has called for Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea to be banned from being taught in schools in Williamson County, Tennessee....

This is a luxury we really can’t afford it. We’re a two-income family and we’ll be spending money on childcare this summer. If we can swing a vacation, we’ll be sinking money into travel and hotels as well. Plus, our primary car is in need of repairs and our credit cards are maxed out. It’s not unlikely that Little League will contribute to family debt. That said, my boys are playing....

Prep Time: Less than five minutes Entertainment Time: Twenty minutesEnergy Expended by Child: Moderate What You Need: A whiteboard and dry-erase markers, or an easel with poster paper and markers.A zany getup/silly hat for the host; last year’s Halloween garb usually works.The material/curriculum you want to quiz your kiddos on; for us, it’s a mix of sight words from Kindergarten and shapes/letters for our toddler.Stuffed animals/items from the toy box to serve as prizes....

Is Incredibles 2 Better Than Toy Story 3? If you want to get real, Toy Story 3 is the highest standard of heartfelt Pixar feelings. Everyone is still recovering from it to this day, which is saying something considering it’s the third movie in the series and three-quels are rarely the best the in any series. The point is, Incredibles 2 is good, but it’s not better than Toy Story 3....

Deutch subsequently directed two other films written and/or produced by Hughes, namely Some Kind of Wonderful and The Great Outdoors, and married Some Kind of Wonderful’s leading lady, Lea Thompson, with whom he has two daughters, Madelyn and Zoey, both also in the business. Beyond the Hughes films, Deutch directed the underappreciated Keanu Reeves football comedy The Replacements and dozens of TV shows, ranging from Melrose Place and True Blood to The Strain and Young Sheldon....

RELATED: Holiday Gifts: The 20 Best Kids Toys Created by Adam Reed, a television producer and father of two, the Reindeer’s concept is simple: Take everything you hate about Elf on the Shelf — children can’t touch him, he’s an evil creeper who spies on kids, and parents have to come up with zany adventures for him every night (when they’re exhausted from chasing around their little ones all day, no less) — and do the absolute opposite....

The reason for that is simple: creator Stephen Hillenburg did not want spinoffs. We know this because an enterprising Redditor, hearing rumors that Hillenburg was anti-spinoff put out a call for evidence that the influential animator, who sadly died last year, would not be on board with Kamp Koral. Reddit did not disappoint. There’s this 2009 interview with Television Business International in which Hillenburg was asked about spinoffs featuring other characters....

Superman and Lois is not the greatest new show on television. But then again, Superman: The Movie was not the greatest motion picture ever made. Any version of Superman is inherently prevented from being a perfect and serious piece of art because it must star a character named Superman, who, eventually, has to wear a skin-tight blue costume, and a red cape. As a concept, Superman is corny. You could argue that he’s weirder than Batman because he acts so happy all the time....

Mild spoilers for The Mandalorian, episode 5; “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger.” After Mando reluctantly teams-up rookie bounty hunter Toro Calican (Jake Cannavale) the two set-out on speeder bikes across the plains of the Tatooine desert. And just like Luke Skywalker before them, the pair run into a few Tusken Raiders; sometimes known by what Luke Skywalker once called them; “Sand People.” In the original Star Wars film, Luke has a rough time with Tusken Raiders and is only saved by Obi-Wan Kenobi showing up and making bizarre animal sounds that frightened them away....

The opening of the trailer introduces us to the core members of our new suicide squad, including Idris Elba’s Bloodsport and John Cena’s Peacemaker, who are throwing quips back and forth as they prepare to break Harley Quinn (still played by Margot Robbie) out of jail but their plan falls apart when they find that she has already broken out, though she is very touched by the gesture. From there, we are reintroduced to the basic premise: this is a group of bad (but maybe not too bad) guys who are given a mission from morally dubious government agent Amanda Waller (played again by Viola Davis)....

This goes without saying. Little kids can’t watch WandaVision. Partially because if you’re a little kid the show is boring as fuck. I imagine even for some Marvel die-hards who watch the scene where Cap gets Thor’s hammer in slow-motion, WandaVision is a little slow. But that’s not my point here. My point is, that with the recent revelations about Anges/Agatha Harkness, the show is straight-up terrifying. This isn’t some Hocus Pocus shit, this is dark as hell....

Of course, if you want books to continue being printed (or written) in the future, it might help if you give your kid a strong, literary name. That way, when people eventually ask why the hell you settled on that baby name, you can remind them there’s such a thing as books and they’re freakin’ awesome. From magical teens to mad scientists, here are the baby names that’ll make the preschool roll-call a hell of a page turner....

Put her morning coffee in a thermos. Tell her “good morning”; tell her “good night.” Hold her hand when walking down the street or whatever. Write or draw something stupid on a Post-It note. Stick it to the fridge or the door or the bathroom mirror — wherever she’s likely to see it and laugh. Buy her flowers on literally any day that isn’t Valentine’s Day/your anniversary/her birthday. What was the thing she used to love to do before you had kids?...