Author's Glib Attitude Toward Marriage

Alice Gregory is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review and has written for the New Yorker, Harper's, and other American magazines. In ...

Modern Marriages Loaded with Ridiculously High Expectations

In a popular TED talk titled "The secret to desire in a long-term relationship," psychotherapist Esther Perel, who has counseled hundreds of couples who ...

Marriages Strengthen Our Country and Ourselves

A small article in The Week, a secular source for world and American news, made the following statement:

Want to help America's economy and yourself at ...

Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About 'Real' Love

Jennifer Lopez has amassed millions of dollars and millions of fans. She has dated and married A-list celebrity men. She has given birth to twins. It ...

Facebook and the Unhappy Marriage

Usually on social media sites like Facebook, marriage is portrayed in a positive light. Most of the pictures you see are lighthearted, cheery, funny, ...

Divorce Statistics Debunked

Have you ever quoted the facts about the 50% divorce rate? Have you ever lamented the fact that the divorce rate was the same in the church? Researcher ...

Musician Jewel's 'Tender Undoing' (or Divorce)

After 16 years together, almost six of them as a married couple, in 2014 the singer Jewel and her husband Ty Murray announced their divorce, or what Jewell ...

The Family Deficit

"Along with the budget deficit, we have a family deficit," writes economic expert and columnist Robert J. Samuelson in The Washington Post. ...

Marriage Expert: Marriages Thrive on Kindness

What helps a marriage thrive? John Gottman, one of the world's leading researchers on marital relationships, looks for the presence of contempt or kindness ...

Why Marriages Are Either 'Masters' or 'Disasters'

Marriage researcher John Gottman has separated couples into two major groups: the masters and the disasters. The masters were still happily together after ...