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February 20, 2005
Another Blog! (What is HOCDI?)
Yay! We have another blog to write in! This one is devoted to documenting research for our new project, "How Other Couples Do It" (known affectionately as "HOCDI" in Wheeler/Higgins circles). Eventually we will add a nice description of the project. For now, I'll cut and paste a section from our proposal below.
Thanks to Chris for setting up the great blog!
How do other couples do it?
- How do you pay your bills?
- How do you divide up housework?
- How do you negotiate differences in your sex drives?
- Did you get pregnant on purpose?
These are questions we wanted to ask our friends and family in the first years of our relationship, but for obvious reasons we refrained. Couples could learn a lot from each other, but there are some things that are just too private to ask. How Other Couples Do It is the project that Alfred Kinsey, Studs Terkel and Oprah Winfrey could have created in collaboration to answer these questions.
Kinsey showed us that there is both more variety and more commonality in human sexuality than previously thought. Studs Terkel showed us that the voices of people who have experienced something can be more compelling and more informative than experts and academics. Oprah Winfrey -- well, she's just fun. This project will explore taboo areas of housework, finance, and in-laws to show that couples of all kinds face the same challenges, and develop a myriad of solutions to them.
Eventually it will collect and publish real-life solutions told by actual people in an anecdotal manner rather than obscure quantitative academic analysis or well-meant (but too-often boring) advice from experts, and it will engage rather than lecturing.
HOCDI is envisioned as a multi-stage project. Right now Chris is in the website development stage and I'm in the research stage. This blog will help document the questions we develop and the information we find in the field of relationship advice and related subjects.
Posted by mary at February 20, 2005 02:47 PM
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