Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. We often romanticize marriage as a magical union—something ...

For all the cultural norms that Gen Z has blown up, they agree marriage remains life's most important milestone. At least, that's according to a study from The Knot, which this year asked Gen Zers ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. In case you’re happily coupled and/or trust-funded enough not to have noticed, being single is quite ...

New research reveals that, contrary to popular belief, romantic fairytales don’t start on your wedding day, but rather well in advance. There’s a glittering fantasy that has been spread around for ...

A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, we asked people from across the country to share stories of what the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges has meant to them. By Miya ...

“There is zero statistical advantage” to getting married if you are a man in America today, Andrew Tate argued in a viral 2022 video on “why modern men don’t want marriage.” Women, he believes, are ...

I watched my parents and stepparents divorce numerous times. I carefully studied what went wrong, trying to prevent the same issues in my marriage. The act of trying to prevent a divorce created a ...

State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue. By Amy Harmon It has been more than a decade since same-sex marriage ...

What a difference a few months make. Just before Donald Trump returned to office in January, gay marriage was thought to be settled law in the United States. After all, it was only 10 years ago that ...

In 2004 the first legal same-sex marriage in America took place in city hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. President George W. Bush condemned the development, as did Democratic politicians. At the time ...

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Even so, misconceptions about open marriages and polyamory exist. Specifically, that it “never works” ...