Language barriers, social isolation and parenting challenges while integrating into a new culture often add to the everyday pressures of marriage.
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Tradwives influencers’ throw-back aesthetics mask a divisive ideology about women’s roles, two scholars of extremism explain.
Griswold v. Connecticut, decided in 1965, set the precedent for several other landmark cases about sex and privacy.
A more cynical and pragmatic look at what makes a good match that ends on a bum note.
Greater longevity of marriages has been heralded as a sign of more successful relationships, but the reality is far more nuanced.
Higher education often delays the age of a first marriage, but its effects later on in life are more mixed.
Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But there are creative ways to reflect gender equality while honoring tradition.
A happy marriage comes with many benefits for mental and physical health. Theory and recent research suggest same-sex couples have accessed those benefits since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision.
In ‘two places to stay’, a young couple splits their time between appartments gifted by each set of parents.
There are several factors behind the decline of the traditional wedding dress, including financial pressures and growth in the culture of individualism.
Having to give up their maiden names has a real-world impact for Japanese women in the workplace.
Large study questions marriage’s protective effect on brain health. But the picture is complex.
Singles often pay more than their coupled counterparts, and not just on taxes. As solo living rises, so does pressure on the rest of the world to catch up.
Woman-to-woman marriage exemplifies the flexibility of African gender constructs. It’s an assertion of female agency.
Bride trafficking has emerged as a growing issue in China as ‘leftover’ men struggle to find spouses.
Some women requested their own abduction to escape abusive husbands.
Numerous countries, including Canada, have laws against what are deemed fraudulent marriages, and immigrants are often made to prove the legitimacy of their love. This article examines the politics laden in the surveillance of romance.
Experiencing sexual inconsistency does not mean people are confused or not serious about their relationships. Rather, it reflects the complex lived realities of human sexuality.
Gender equality is on the rise, so why are wedding proposals still considered a man’s job?
Kylie Mirmohamadi’s immersive post-marriage novel follows a woman’s midlife reawakening in the wake of her dominating artist husband’s death.
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