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.
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.
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.
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.
Conflict is unavoidable when living with another person, but whether a fight tears down or builds up the relationship depends on how the couple behaves in its aftermath.
The number of Americans getting divorced plummeted last year, while the marriage rate also dropped precipitously as thousands of weddings were postponed or canceled, according to a new study.
One silver lining in an otherwise dark year is that most couples seem to be emerging from the crucible of COVID-19 not with weaker unions but stronger ones — and dreams for a stronger family future in the undoubtedly difficult days ahead.
Like me, my neighbor had begun having trouble with her marriage a couple of years before the pandemic. It wasn’t that the coronavirus had created the problems, but it had certainly crystallized them.
Widespread social-distancing policies meant many couples had two choices, neither particularly appealing: They could smush together into close-quartered, 24-hours-a-day cohabitation, indefinitely, or be apart with limited in-person contact, indefinitely.
Same-sex spouses feel more satisfied with their partners than heterosexual ones. What’s the secret?