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Expensive wedding spending does not buy a longer marriage, and one widely cited study found the opposite pattern. Surveying 3,151 ever-married Americans, economists Andrew Francis-Tan and Hugo Mialon…
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Moving for your partner can be a smart, loving decision, but research on “tied moves” shows the partner…
Intercultural relationships tend to succeed or struggle less over dramatic culture clashes than over everyday expectations about family,…
Disagree about having kids with the person you love, and you hit one of the rare conflicts with…
Getting married young does carry higher divorce risk, but the steepest risk is concentrated in teen marriages, not…
Income gap in relationships trouble rarely comes from the dollars themselves. It comes from what the gap starts…
Dating someone with kids when you have none goes best when you accept that the children came first…
Romance scams work less by fooling gullible people than by meeting real emotional needs: steady attention, affection, and…
Dating with anxiety is far more common than it feels: the National Institute of Mental Health estimates about…
Prenuptial agreement conversations go best when you treat them as joint financial planning rather than a test of…
Honeymoon phase feelings fade for most couples, often within the first few years, and that dip is normal…
Age gap relationships can last as long as same-age ones, but the research suggests the number of years…
Settling in a relationship is less about how good your partner is and more about why you stay.…
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