According to the U.S. Census data, the rate of married U.S. adults ages 25-34 dropped by 10 percent in the last 10 years. Population Reference Bureau, a non-profit organization, says that the trend to avoid marriage has also been long-term. For all U.S. adults, 57 percent were married in 2000, but that dropped to 52
According to a study by researcher Tyler Jamison of the University of Missouri-Columbia, more couples are choosing to keep their own residences rather than move in together. “This seems to be a pretty stable and convenient middle ground between casual dating and more formal commitments like living together and getting married,” says Jamison. The conclusions
Mention non-monogamy and you’re likely to provoke an emotional response from many people. Some get angry because their minds automatically jump to the thoughts of lying, cheating and unsafe sex. How can you even consider such an immoral practice? In a recent NYTimes article, Dan Savage weighed in on the topic. He said that not
Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker, authors of Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying, report in their new book, “One of the biggest unacknowledged facts about sex is the underlying economy to it all. When you look into it, it’s really amazing how it works. And it’s fairly elementary
A new study reveals that women in powerful positions are just as likely as men to cheat. The study was based on an anonymous online survey and showed power trumps gender when it comes to infidelity. “There has been a lot of research in the past that indicates that gender is the strongest predictor of
Does “true love” really take time? University of Iowa sociologist Anthony Paik found that average relationship quality was higher for individuals who waited until things were serious to have sex compared to those who became sexually involved in “hookups,” “friends with benefits,” or casual dating relationships. But having sex early on wasn’t to blame for
I recently heard about a man who received after-life communication from his ex who had died a few years before. He recorded the experience in his journal and a week later his current wife destroyed it when she found out about it. His wife is so jealous of anyone else taking the attention of “her”
According to an article on christwire.org, there are over 2 million hetero couples in America secretly struggling with homosexuality in their marriages (I think that number is higher, especially if you include bisexuality). It’s not clear whether the article, which lists 15 ways to tell if your husband is gay, is satire or not, but
“University students whose parents have recently divorced are unscathed by the experience, an English study finds.” “University of Warwick researchers assessed the productivity and happiness of 270 students, and found little difference between students of recently divorced parents and other students. In fact, some male students actually had higher productivity following their parents’ divorce.” Full
Have you noticed that everyone seemed to assume that Tiger’s marriage was fine except for his cheating? We have no idea what their marriage was like and how she treated him. We have no idea if she married him for love or not or how she behaved after they were married. We have no idea how Tiger felt about
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