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A messy home can be maddening, especially for a stay-at-home parent. Add two small children and an occasionally unheeding spouse and you have this week’s Modern Love essay, which chronicles the tale of a polo shirt left abandoned on a cabinet for eight months and a wife’s hard stance against cleaning up after her husband.
In this week’s Vows, love came easy for Ariel Shepherd-Oppenheim, a television writer and the daughter of the Golden Globe Award-winning actor Cybill Shepherd, and Eliza Ladensohn, the founder of the women’s clothing line Sloane & Tate. Although the couple knew early on that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together, it would take eight years of dating before they said “I do.”
