The fact we’re paying for her professional opinion clearly means our marriage – which brought us three beautiful children then aged 12, 10 and four – is not exactly in great shape.

Thanks to a nudge from her mom, college student Summer Waters Pfleger started dating Ethan Pfleger — a year later they were married Susan Young is a reporter for PEOPLE. She started working for ...

Has marriage always had the same definition? Actually, the institution has been in a process of constant evolution. Pair-bonding began in the Stone Age as a way of organizing and controlling ...

In our society, the beauty and greatness of married love has been so obscured that most people now view marriage as a prison: a conventional, boring, legal matter that threatens love and destroys ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The decision to end a marriage is deeply personal, but there are some widespread factors that weigh into the decision. For example ...

Take happiness for an example. What makes a husband happy? Or, to be more specific, what makes a man happy in his marriage? That sounds like a straightforward question, but it can be surprisingly ...

Marriage penalties occur because income taxes are based on a married couple's combined income, not on the incomes of each spouse individually. "Marriage penalty" is a term that refers to the ...

It is a commonly quoted fact that nearly half of all marriages end in divorce – but this does not tell the whole story. While the overall divorce rate in the UK is 42%, data from the Office for ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A “gray divorce” refers to the phenomenon of older adults, typically aged 50 and ...

The devastation of child marriage effectively ends a girl’s childhood. How? Forced marriage robs a girl of her education and more, replacing lessons learned in the classroom with adult ...

What can a marriage counselor help with? A marriage counselor can help a couple develop skills to strengthen their relationship. Before getting married, or during the course of a marriage ...

When a marriage is in decline, it tends to follow a predictable pattern. Knowing what to look for can help you repair your relationship before it’s too late. Becky Whetstone, an Arkansas ...