Marriage

More People Think It's Fine for Unwed Couples to Live Together. Here's Why Many Still Think Marriage Is Better

More Americans have lived with a romantic partner than have married one, a ...

More Americans have lived with a romantic partner than have married one, a new study from Pew Research shows. And only a small minority of people now see unwed couples living together as anything to...

Why You Shouldn’t Love Your Kids More Than Your Partner

Parents' love for their children can make them do peculiar things. Like sta...

Parents' love for their children can make them do peculiar things. Like staying up until 1 a.m. gluing glitter on a second-grade class project. Or driving 40 miles to deliver a single soccer cleat. Or,...

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Why Even the Best Marriages Are Hard Sometimes

Two new books take on the middle stretch of lifetime unions

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Ask Dr. Ruth: When Should I See a Sex Therapist?

The famous — and hilarious — 89-year-old therapist has a new sex column on ...

The famous — and hilarious — 89-year-old therapist has a new sex column on TIME

Love Languages Author: How to Be There for a Spouse with Alzheimer’s

More married couples looking for help have sought it out from Gary Chapman'...

More married couples looking for help have sought it out from Gary Chapman's colossal bestseller than any other modern book. More recently, the quietly spoken pastor and counselor from Winston Salem, North Carolina, turned his...

Why Marriage Is Linked to a Lower Risk of Dementia

People who have never married or whose spouse has died are at increased ris...

People who have never married or whose spouse has died are at increased risk of developing dementia compared to married people, according to a new review in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. But...

Affairs Are Only Human — But That Shouldn't Be Your Excuse

We've reconsidered divorce. Now we're rethinking infidelity. But are we mis...

We've reconsidered divorce. Now we're rethinking infidelity. But are we missing the point?