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life imitates art

 Most of 
 Manhattan 
 Is Single 

Census shows 50.3% live alone

Oct 30, 09 1:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Depending on your point of view, New York is either a very lonely city or a great place to get laid. The number of singles in the Big Apple, already at a historic high, keeps rising, according to new Census data. In Manhattan, a whopping 50.3% of people live... More »

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New York City • Manhattan • marriage • US Census • Census data • single people • singles • women's issues

 Somali Man, 112, 
 Marries Teen Bride 

Father of 80-year-old says he wants more kids with wife

Oct 30, 09 3:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 95-year age gap is no barrier to love, according to a 112-year-old Somali man who married a 17-year-old bride this week. Ahmed Muhamed Dhore—who told the BBC he still has his 1897 birth certificate written on goat skin—says he realized a dream by marrying his sixth wife.... More »

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Somalia • marriage • centenarians • women's issues

 Barack and Michelle: 
 The First Romantics 

Pair redefine president-first lady relationship

Oct 29, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Like no other couple before them, Barack and Michelle Obama have made their romance a central feature of his presidency—even his inauguration night seemed like a wedding, the new first lady dressed in white, the couple dancing to a love song. Their marriage is the subject of a 7,... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • marriage • first families • couples • married couples • Obama family

(Newser) - Researchers have discovered the secret of a happy marriage—at least for the husband: a younger, smarter wife. Such marriages are likely to last, particularly when neither spouse has been previously divorced. Marriages involving women at least five years younger than a husband and with a higher educational level fared... More »

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divorce • marriage • wedding • husband • wife • cougar

DUSTING=Intimacy?

 Couples Who 
 Share Chores 
 Have More Sex 

Housework amps up your spouse, but why?

Oct 21, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - More housework equals more sex, a new study shows, though watchers are split on why that is. Two answers quickly spring up: For one, active folks tend to pour their energy into all pursuits. “This group of go-getters seem to make sex a priority,” a researchers tells... More »

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work • study • marriage • sex • housework • relationship • opinion polls • women's issues

Men More Likely to Abandon
Sick Partners

Seven times as many women stay when serious illness strikes

Oct 15, 09 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Relationships fail seven times more often when illness strikes the female partner than when it strikes the man. Researchers don't know why, but theories abound: “There is an immediate shift in a relationship when an illness is diagnosed,” a counselor tells the Times of London. Gender roles... More »

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cancer • divorce • disease • women • men • marriage • multiple sclerosis • chronic illness • gender roles • relationship • scientific study • medical study • terminal illness

slideshow

 Thousands Marry in 
 Mass Moonie Wedding 

40,000 gather for blessing of Sun Myung Moon in Korea

Oct 14, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - He is nearly 90 years old, but Sun Myung Moon—cult leader, Washington Times founder, self-proclaimed Messiah—can still draw a crowd. The leader of the Unification Church led a mass wedding for some 40,000 people outside of Seoul today, on the campus of, yes, Sun Moon University. It... More »

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marriage • wedding • arranged marriage • Reverend Sun Myung Moon • cult

 In Rural India, Mr Right 
 Must Have a Toilet 

Brides-to-be insist suitors offer indoor plumbing

Oct 12, 09 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - India's economy may be booming, but 665 million people in the world's second-largest nation have no access to indoor plumbing—not only an inconvenience, but a health hazard that leads to diarrhea, typhoid, and malaria. But these days, newly assertive rural women are insisting that suitors have a toilet before... More »

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India • marriage • toilet • dowry • latrines • marriage proposal

 Khloe, Lamar 
 Not Married, 
 Dickering 
 Over Pre-Nup 

Expected to sign in few weeks, but they're 'very much in love'

Oct 7, 09 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - They may have staged a lavish wedding but reality star Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom are not married, reports Radar. In fact, they're only in the beginning stages of hammering out a pre-nuptual contract, sources say. The couple are expected to sign the pre-nup in the "next several weeks,... More »

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marriage • wedding • Lamar Odom • Khloe Kardashian • pre-nup

Couples Therapist's Solution to Marital Fight? Knife Hubby

NYC psychologist must have forgotten own advice

Oct 6, 09 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Manhattan couples therapist—who once told the New York Times the biggest problem between men and women is communication—is accused of knifing her husband in an argument. Joyce Poster-Lederman—or, as the Post calls her, “the frustrated female Freudian”—allegedly blew up during a... More »

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New York • marriage • psychology • assault • therapist • knife

ANALYSIS

Facebook Divorce Rule No. 1: Don't Overshare

Divorcee, beware. His lawyer might be reading those posts

Sep 29, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like many things, the etiquette for dealing with marital troubles on Facebook isn’t exactly covered in the Terms of Service. And like any other Facebook action, Amanda Fortini writes, users would do well to think before they type. When a recently separated woman posted a status update reading “... More »

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social networking • Internet • divorce • Web 2.0 • marriage • Facebook • lawyer • defriending • marital woes

 Job Market Splitting Up Couples 

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans relocates for new position

Sep 22, 09 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the job market failing to recover along with the larger economy, two-career couples are facing tough choices and increasingly being forced into long-distance relationships. A recent survey has found that 18.2% of Americans who took new jobs in the second quarter also relocated, up from 11.4% a... More »

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marriage • unemployment • relationship • job market • relocation • couples • married couples

 Takei, Hubby First Gay  
 Couple on Newlywed Game 

Star Trek actor and husband just marked 1st anniversary

Sep 16, 09 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The new version of the Newlywed Game will feature a gay couple for the first time—Star Trek actor George Takei and his husband Brad Altman, Queerty reports. Takei and Altman just celebrated their first anniversary—they’ve been together for 22 years but didn’t tie the knot until... More »

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television • gay marriage • marriage • homosexuality • game show • George Takei

 No Rush to Altar as Vermont 
 Starts Marrying Gays 

Fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage sees little demand

Sep 1, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - After 17 years together, a couple from upstate New York married at 12:01 this morning—the first same-sex couple to wed in Vermont. Today the Green Mountain State, which gave the US civil unions, becomes the fifth state and fourth in New England to allow gays and lesbians to... More »

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gay marriage • marriage • Vermont • New England

(Newser) - A Silicon Valley couple has forsaken a traditional wedding registry for venture capital, Gawker reports. “The World's First Start-up Wedding Registry” doesn’t ask guests for appliances or candlesticks; instead, they can give enough to “feed an outsourced engineer for a day” or pay a month’s worth... More »

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Internet • marriage • wedding • funding • venture capital • startup • gift • registry • Aboomba

Mali's President Bails
on Women's Rights Law

Protests force him to send it back for review

Aug 27, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mali's president says he won't sign a controversial new law that gives more rights to women, the BBC reports. President Amadou Toumani Toure says he supports the so-called family law, which Muslim leaders have denounced as the devil's work, but is sending it back to parliament for review. "I... More »

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Africa • women's rights • marriage • protests • Muslim • parliament • Mali • Amadou Toumani Toure

OPINION

 Fibs Are Good for Marriage 


Aug 26, 09 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Raina Kelley is not happy with this "new spate of advice talking about how lying is bad for a relationship," she writes in Newsweek. "That is my line in the sand. Marriages cannot exist without dishonesty." Now, she doesn't mean the big stuff, like adultery. She's... More »

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marriage • relationship • lying • women's issues • partner • lies • fib • compliment

(Newser) - Marriage is healthier for men than lowering their blood pressure or even quitting smoking, a new study says. Researchers at the University of Arizona looked at 1,715 people aged 57 to 85 and found that married men had less of a protein that has been linked to stroke, depression,... More »

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marriage

(Newser) - When Aleki Taumoepeau lost his wedding ring at the bottom of Wellington Harbor in New Zealand, his wife offered to buy him a new one. But Taumoepeau would have none of it, swearing he’d find the original ring. He’d thrown an anchor in after it, and was convinced... More »

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marriage • scuba

(Newser) - Amy Winehouse has convinced rehabbing hubby Blake Fielder-Civil to rekindle their relationship, the News of the World reports. "I love her as much as ever. I know she still loves me," says Blake, who agreed to a dinner date when he gets out of rehab. "Maybe... More »

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marriage • Amy Winehouse • Blake Fielder Civil • celebrity divorces • Celebrity Rehab

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