A just-published article claims that people who stay single are headed straight to the grave -- and fast. Faster than people who are currently married.

Time magazine calls marriage a 'luxury yacht.' Remember what happened on the last cruise ship? The cover of Time magazine asks, in big bold letters,...

Married men are less generous with their friends after marrying. How, does this qualify as acting "more civilized," as the Marriage Mafia claim?

In his column today, David Brooks writes that, "According to [one study], being married produces a psychic gain equivalent to more than $100,000 a year." What exactly does this mean?

To be single at heart, I think, means that you see yourself as single. Your life may or may not include the occasional romantic relationship, but you don't aspire to live as part of a couple for the long term.

There's something troubling about the use of the word "relationship" that excludes all relationships but romantic ones. All other adult relationships aren't just excluded in the wording; they're absent from the studies.

Once upon a time, a reporter for a major magazine declared, in all seriousness, that women should just get married already - even if it means settling...

I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

Marriage is not for everyone, and people who want to stay single should not be targeted with singlism because of it.

I am disappointed with the recent Times article that claims that married people tend to be healthier than single people. Here's why the piece is misleading.

There's a lot of matrimania going on but I suspect that's not a sign of how secure we are about the place of marriage in our lives, but how insecure.

Who is happier and psychologically stronger - people who got married and then got unmarried, or people who stayed single? The answer, in just about every study I've ever reviewed, is people who have stayed single.

Even allowing for the approach that makes marriage look better than it really is, the differences in health between the currently-married and the always-single are tiny.