The Cost of Adultery

Social commentator Minette Marrin argues in London's Sunday Times that "adultery need not break up marriages… Adultery is the civilized way of dealing ...

"What a Wife Wants"

Readers of Country Woman magazine were asked: What gifts would you like from your sweetheart for Valentine's Day? Several of the replies are below:

C.V. ...

Bonhoeffer on Love and Marriage

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:

Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through which ...

Survey Finds Sex in Marriage Is Best

The British health magazine Top Sante commissioned a National Sex and Relationship Survey in 2002, and among the findings were:

• After 14 years of marriage, 63 percent of women still fancy their husband "just as much as when they first met him."

Book Makes Adultery Polite

Judith E. Brandt, a woman in her 40s, has written a book called The 50-Mile Rule: Your Guide to Infidelity and Extramarital Etiquette. Here is an excerpt ...

Garrison Keillor on Marriage

In Wobegon Boy, Garrison Keillor tells the fanciful tale of John Tollefson. John leaves Minnesota, moves to New York, and makes a life for himself far ...

Allure of Adultery

Chuck Colson writes in Breakpoint:

I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, and someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving ...

Passion for Fidelity

The instinct of fidelity is perhaps the deepest instinct in the great complex we call sex. Where there is real sex there is the underlying passion for ...

Reordering Priorities

As a child I was brought up to believe that it was not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game. Then, in the real world, I found that to ...

Real Men Don't Commit Adultery

I remember some years ago watching Phyllis George interview Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach. It was a dull interview until Phyllis asked, "Roger, ...