The New Dating Trend: The Pre-Prenup

It makes it way too easy to obsess, for one

(NEWSER) - It's high-time Facebook joins wandering eyes and drunken indiscretions on the list of relationship busters, writes Samuel Axon for Mashable . Here are five ways the boundary-eroding site is making dating more complicated:

1. It makes obsessing too easy: He posted on your wall six times yesterday but only twice today...does that mean he's over you? "If you’re already feeling insecure or suspicious, your partner’s Facebook feed will contribute about 10 gallons of gasoline to it."

More employees see no reason to hide their love, and bosses are on board

(NEWSER) - The stigma of office romance is swiftly slipping away, bringing a time-honored—and surprisingly traditional—method of courtship out into the open. A recent survey shows 67% of employees see no reason to pretend they’re not dating a coworker, up from 54% in 2005. And no wonder. “The office keeps coming up No. 1” on surveys of where to meet a mate, a sociologist tells the Wall Street Journal . More»

It could have been for financial reasons: divorce lawyers

(NEWSER) - How romantic: Turns out the timing of Mark Zuckerberg's surprise weekend wedding may have had more to do with financial savvy than anything else, Reuters reports. California has community-property laws, meaning that any property created during the marriage should be split evenly in a divorce. In the case of Zuck's new wife, Priscilla Chan, that means that if she contested the prenup they almost certainly signed, she could attempt to snag Facebook stock Zuckerberg held before they were married by claiming its value increased during the marriage. More»

Tiffany Baillie weeps when Gregory Todd presents the ring

(NEWSER) - Now that's unconditional love. A man in Britain has asked for a woman's hand in marriage—not long after she stabbed him in the back with a 12-inch knife. And he did it in court, the Telegraph reports. Tiffany Baillie has admitted to stabbing her boyfriend while he was asleep in December; the crime occurred near the first-year anniversary of the death of her infant and soon after a miscarriage. Her lawyer says she was consumed with grief and doesn't know why she did it. More»

New York exposition offers tips on dating, plastic surgery, and lawyering up

(NEWSER) - Divorcees looking for a little advice (or the company of formerly married peeps) are heading over to the so-called divorce expo in New York today, the New York Times reports. “We’re putting a positive face on divorce,” says Francine Baras, co-founder of Start Over Smart—which costs $75 and up at the Metropolitan Pavilion this weekend. "Although it’s difficult and a big transition for most people, there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is a post-divorce life.” More»