Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

marriage

Recent

Articles

1 in 7 New Marriages Are Now Interracial—But Biases Still Linger

No matter how much we tout the melting-pot concept, our "personal preferences" are often tinged with ingrained stereotypes.

Articles

How the Fight for Marriage Rights Is Strengthening My Relationship

The fight for marriage rights is a roller coaster. Of love.

Articles

Open Marriages Aren't Wrong–Newt Gingrich Is

Newt Gingrich isn't the poster child for healthy open marriages. He is a prime example of how a sexist, repressive culture hurts relationships.

Articles

Five Things More Likely to Save Marriage Than an Anti-Porn Crusade

Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum signed an anti-porn pledge to save marriage. If they really cared about matrimony, they'd do these things instead.

Articles

The Year in Marriage

We fiercely defend marriage even as we perpetually redefine it. This year was no exception.

Articles

The Marriage Paradox

Half of young people think matrimony is becoming "obsolete." So why do we still want to do it so badly?

Articles

Cohabitation Is the New Marriage

Living in sin used to be social suicide, but couples are now afforded the space to conduct their private business privately.

Articles

Why I'm Glad Kim Kardashian Got Divorced

Someone needed to burst the bubble of the "storybook wedding" fantasy.

Articles

Marriage Isn't Sacred

Let Kim Kardashian's 10-week romance serve as a reminder that love, not marriage, is what's holy.

Articles

Nearly Beloved: How to Celebrate the Day You Don't Get Married

Weddings have become such a mega-monster event in the United States, it seems appropriate to offer some kind of shadow event.

Articles

Intermission: A Wedding Proposal by Flash Mob

A man proposes to his girlfriend with the help of a giant flash mob on the UCLA campus

Articles

The Conservative Evolution of Gay Marriage

While 57 percent of people under 30 see gay sex as "morally acceptable," only 46 percent of them would say the same about having an abortion.

Articles

How Marriage (and Divorce) Tips the Scales for Men and Women Weight Gain Trends in Marriage and Divorce

Marriage is linked to a heightened risk for significant weight gain among women. For men, the pounds come a little bit later—after the divorce.

Articles

Are Wedding Bells a Prerequisite For Raising Healthy Kids?

A new study says kids are worse off with unmarried, cohabiting parents. But it's not because their folks haven't tied the knot.

Articles

Should You Move for Your Partner?

As couples fall into cohabitation earlier and delay marriage later, moving to a new city for a partner has become a relationship rite of passage.

Articles

Planning Your Indie Wedding: A Modern-Day Cautionary Fable

Blend Etsy impulses and well-to-do lefties with pressure-cooker marriage culture, and you just might end up with hobo-themed wedding.