marriage

How Happy Marriages Stay Happy: 7 Signs of a Rock Solid Relationship - Fatherly This is what it takes for a marriage to stay happy over time. In an interview years ago, Jane Pauley asked family and relationship researcher John DeFrain, Ph.D., what he thought was the major cause of divorce in...

It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal - Glamour I spent 12 years fighting for an equal partnership, when what I needed was a divorce. I stood in my dining room surrounded by toys and the remnants of dinner from the night before sticking to the bottom of my feet. In the kitchen, a bag of...

The problem with love is deciding who’s doing the dishes - Psyche When there is domestic trouble, we might think of love as part of the answer. But what if love is part of the problem? As we know from research in history and sociology, family life in Western societies in the past was dominated...

My Wife’s Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too - The Cut No one tells you about the other in-laws you acquire when you get married. Until about five years ago, I got along with basically everyone. Sometimes, I knew, people didn’t care for me, but my impeccable get-along instincts and crushing fear...