Marriage and Commitment: How Expectations Set the Stage for Marriage
Real-life couples share their expectations of marriage as featured experts talk about the realities of married life. Perhaps the greatest misconception that newly marrieds have is the belief that relationships grow without effort. Counselors stres...
Sex and Sexuality: Infidelity
It's not always clear exactly what constitutes infidelity, and the factors leading to it can be quite complex. When it does occur, infidelity often has serious consequences for a relationship.
Singlehood...: Demographics and Myths of Single Life
The single population in the United States includes a broad spectrum of people: the never marrieds, those who have been married but are divorced or widowed; and gays and lesbians who are not allowed to marry. Demographically, more women live alone...
Singlehood...: Costs and Benefits of Cohabitation
In general there are fewer legal supports for cohabiting singles including health and life insurance. However, singles who share a life together report the relationship provides them with greater freedom to be themselves, to share finances, and to e...
Singlehood...: Why People Cohabitate
In the last fifty years, the number of cohabiting singles in the United States has mushroomed. Among whites, cohabitation is an experiment, a kind of trial marriage. For African- or Mexican-Americans, cohabitation is more often an alternative or su...
Singlehood...: Changing Attitudes Toward Singlehood
Generations ago, people focused on finding an appropriate person to marry, raising a family, and creating an economic partnership that would last a lifetime. Being single, in fact, had negative connotations. Today, a large contingent of people ch...
Marriage and Commitment: Communication and Conflict Resolution
Men and women often have different approaches to conflict resolution. Couples argue vehemently about small things, when the underlying issue is how they are defining the relationship. Researcher John Gottman has found that successful couples avoid...