Understanding why marriages fail can help you to make your own union stronger if you are married and guide you in making choices about entering into a marriage.
Relationships tend to be an area where we have to make significant, stress-inducing decisions when our heads are less clear. Here are some strategies to try.
Longtime readers know the drill: lower the blinds, turn down the lights, put on some relaxing music, light some scented candles, and drink your favorite alcoholic beverage before reading any further.
Republicans across the country are now reconsidering no-fault divorce. There isn’t a huge mystery behind the campaign: making it more difficult to leave an unhappy marriage is about control.
Relationship therapists often spend a lot of energy trying to salvage a dying relationship. But what if more couples tried “breakup” therapy instead?
After a pandemic-induced dip, the number of American couples who are “living apart together,” as sociologists call the arrangement, or L.A.T., has started to grow again.
This article explains why the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion is causing anxiety for people in same-sex marriages, particularly those with children, and how the legal community is responding.
Here’s my annual summary of the legislative changes to Tennessee family law in 2022.
What are the legal requirements for a prenuptial agreement in Tennessee?
What are some pros and cons of getting a prenuptial agreement?
We are nearing a time when there will be more unmarried adults in the United States than married ones, a development with enormous consequences for how we define family and adulthood in general, as well as how we structure taxation and benefits.
Gray divorce, whose rates have doubled since 1990 and now represents a quarter of all divorces in the U.S., does have individual and social costs worth pondering, especially in an aging society.
Is there a judicial remedy for the discrimination same-sex couples face from their inability to marry earlier?
A recent Pew survey found that 44% of Americans between 18 and 49 who aren’t parents say it is not too likely or not at all likely that they will have children — an increase of 7 percentage points from 2018. What explains this?
The divorce rate continues to fall. These two articles offer differing but complementary explanations for why this is happening.