
Sometimes, Honesty Matters More Than the Rules: Rethinking Infidelity
A 2011 New York Times essay on the Weiner scandal argued marriages fail from dishonesty, not desire. Thoughtful India revisits the provocative case for honesty.
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A 2011 New York Times essay on the Weiner scandal argued marriages fail from dishonesty, not desire. Thoughtful India revisits the provocative case for honesty.

Research links advanced paternal age to higher risks of autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions in children. The science of the male biological clock.

A Meerut bride tied a rakhi to her husband to reunite with her lover, then the lover dumped her. The strange, sad twist in a viral UP story.

Canadian researchers found bilingual dementia patients showed symptoms about four years later than monolingual patients. What the evidence says, and its limits.

Maria Shriver reportedly suspected the truth long before the LA Times broke it: how the Schwarzenegger marriage unraveled in May 2011.

A 2011 study of 357 adoptive families found marital strain at 9 months predicted babies' sleep problems at 18 months — and not the other way around.

A 2011 Jamshedpur femicide — an engineering student allegedly killed his girlfriend after an argument — and what such cases say about intimate-partner

Census 2011 plus a Delhi University survey: 44% of respondents preferred a male child, and Delhi's child sex ratio stood at just 866 girls per 1,000 boys.

At 92, Clara Tang was committed to stand trial for the 2010 killing of her 98-year-old husband in Sydney — Australia's oldest woman to face a murder trial.

A Gorakhpur engineering college rusticated a final-year student for keeping her boyfriend in her hostel room. The incident -- and its double standard.

Children spanked at age 3 are more likely to be aggressive by age 5, research finds. What the science says about corporal punishment -- and what works instead.

In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.

Why group dates caught on in India: safety, lower pressure, and the friend-group as chaperone. Inside the 2011 trend and what became of it.

In February 2011, Mark Zuckerberg won a restraining order against Pradeep Manukonda, 31, who stalked him across Facebook, his offices, and his front steps.

When care turns into control: why mothering your husband backfires, and how to keep the partnership equal without losing the tenderness.

Why do so many men forget Valentine's Day? Memory, marketing, and the mind-reading trap -- and the one conversation that fixes it.

Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.

India's RTE Act had just banned corporal punishment in schools. Yet the old proverb refused to die. What the research — and the law — actually say.

A lasting marriage isn't always a happy one. Research on self-expansion suggests the happiest couples are the ones still learning together.

Marital drift — the slow divergence of two people sharing a house — is the least dramatic and most common reason long marriages end. Why it happens.