marriage

In November 2014, Jashodaben filed an RTI with Mehsana police asking what security and facilities she was entitled to as the Prime Minister’s wife.

November 24, 2014 · 1 min read

Therapist Dr. Kelly Flanagan's 2014 essay: marital communication is just reacting — the real troublemakers are nine overlooked patterns: ego, shame, loneliness.

October 19, 2014 · 2 min read

Most marriages don't fail in a single dramatic moment. They fail slowly — taken for granted, compared, cheated, or fought over money. What actually breaks them.

September 9, 2014 · 1 min read

When long marriages end over 'incompatibility,' is it really incompatibility — or a midlife crisis? A reflection on marriage, divorce, and the work in between.

November 13, 2013 · 2 min read

From an Indian Army study on leave and affairs to Bangalore's IT crowd: an op-ed asking whether monogamy is believed but not practiced.

June 3, 2013 · 1 min read

New Zealand's parliament voted 77-44 to legalize same-sex marriage — the 13th country in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific.

April 17, 2013 · 3 min read

Why do women still give up their names at marriage while men never do? On identity, history, and the quiet pressure behind the tradition.

March 8, 2013 · 2 min read

Couples are wedding across continents over video chat. A 2013 NYT report traced the rise of proxy marriages — and the fraud and trafficking concerns.

March 7, 2013 · 3 min read

Researcher Terri Orbuch found that when husbands felt close to their wives' parents, couples reported happier marriages. The in-law effect is real.

December 5, 2012 · 2 min read

Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor married in a quiet registered ceremony at his Bandra home on October 16, 2012, ending five years of speculation.

October 16, 2012 · 2 min read

Two women, similar backgrounds, the same day care job — one married, one raising children alone. How family structure has become one of America's deepest

July 17, 2012 · 1 min read

Marrying into Indian family life means marrying the family, the festivals, the food debates — and learning that 'compromise' has a much larger cast than two.

July 7, 2012 · 1 min read

India's Supreme Court ruled that sex obtained through a false promise of marriage constitutes rape under the IPC — a major statement on consent in Indian law.

May 28, 2012 · 1 min read

The 2012 speculation that Obama might swap Biden for Hillary Clinton as his running mate — the electoral logic, the arguments against, and why it never

May 24, 2012 · 1 min read

Vidya Balan's 2012 relationship with studio executive Siddharth Roy Kapur quietly challenged a stubborn assumption: that the man must be the more prominent

May 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.

April 17, 2012 · 1 min read

A prenup with a weight-gain penalty clause made headlines in 2012. Why body-policing contracts are legally shaky — and what they do to a marriage.

March 13, 2012 · 1 min read

A gene variant called 5-HTTLPR was once said to predict divorce. It doesn't. Here's what the actual research found about DNA and marital satisfaction.

February 28, 2012 · 2 min read

A 2011 University of Tennessee study found marriages happier when the wife's BMI was lower than the husband's. But the headline was better than the truth.

July 19, 2011 · 2 min read

A 2011 Wall Street Journal essay on the 'divorce generation' asked a hard question: when parents pour everything into the kids, who tends the marriage?

July 11, 2011 · 1 min read

Before settling down, most women collect a small education in men: the best friend, the bad boy, the ex, the fling, and finally the keeper.

July 11, 2011 · 2 min read

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.

July 4, 2011 · 2 min read

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

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

With Facebook nearing 500 million users, one feed now reaches your boss, your clients, and your grandmother. What not to post to all of them at once.

December 17, 2010 · 1 min read

The fleeing husband who leaves a long marriage triggers more than grief — a painful revision of the whole story the abandoned partner told herself.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read