In a blog post earlier this month, writer Dani Alpert opened up about why she married her ex-husband when she knew she wasn't in love with him. An...
By Julie Orlov for YourTango.com Words are powerful. They can cut you, heal you, inspire you, and stop you from certain actions. Learning the lang...
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It's just possible that if you do some or all these things, your relationship and your life in general will become less boring and more exhilarating. It might also become more challenging and stimulating. But who knows? You might get to enjoy living on the edge.
To keep your marriage or long-term relationship low-stress, strong and happy, it's critical to learn to manage your attitudes and emotions and lead with your heart -- from that intelligent, self-secure place inside where wisdom, intuition and understanding reside.
With the 2012 presidential race now reaching a fever pitch, it may sound like political opposites Donna and Frank don't have much in common. But as it turns out they do, and it's something major: Donna and Frank have been happily married for almost 50 years.
If you want to save your marriage, for the love of God, don't go to marriage counseling.
Around about the same time I got divorced, three other women I know also got divorced. Their husbands each had an affair. We joked -- sadly -- that it must have been something in the water.
She reveals monogamous marriage to be nothing more than an artificial construct, he went on, devised by society to keep people docile and in their place.
By Alex Veiga, Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Newlyweds and couples moving toward marriage, take note. Love, as it turns out, is not all you need...
Because of our sexuality we felt additional pressure to appear publicly unbreakable. We knew that people in our own families, as well as many more strangers, would be pleased to see us, a queer couple with a young baby, break up. It made me sick to give those people that satisfaction.
Sometimes, years pass before we have that lightbulb moment -- noting situations we neither predicted nor imagined -- something like separate vacations or separate activities which, taken to an extreme, may lead to separate lives.
Is your boss the reason you got divorced? I don't mean to imply a ménage a trios, but rather your workload got so heavy it out-weighed your marriage vows?
"Marriage is dead," and "monogamy may be asking too much" were the headlines in 2011. But Lori Lowe, creator of the popular marriage blog, Marriage Gems, still says lasting bliss is possible.
Friends sometimes ask me about the signs of marriages on the brink. Can mere mortals, without credentials even!, predict which marriages are likely to...
Finding out that your partner is having an affair is devastating at any age, but if you’re in your fifties and you’ve been together for years the ...
What is the role of a friend or family member when someone they care about is getting divorced? Divorce is a loyalty test. It's all too easy to fail ...
The other day I had lunch with a long married girlfriend who was bemoaning the fact that, for fifteen years, she and her husband hardly ever fought, and now, in the last five, they frequently do, which she mostly attributes to the strain of having young children.
Few of us are surprised when the young and famous break up. But when celebrated marriages weather decades of ups and downs and then dissolve? Those still have the ability to stun, and can even lead to second looks at our own relationships.
So what can a mom or dad do to help their child cope, given that their parents are going through a profoundly difficult time?
As a child of divorce, Obama is more likely to be sensitive to policies that protect children and more likely to make family health care coverage a priority, since many divorced women lose their coverage.
Q: I have been married twenty-five years, but I don't know if I want to stay married. I'm confused. How do I distinguish between a real crisis in my...
Arguing is an inevitable part of married life. But now researchers are putting the marital spat under the microscope to see if the way you fight with ...
