Casual Sex is not More Fun or Less Complicated

Our casual hookup culture may promise greater independence and excitement. It's a means to sex without too many (or any) strings attached. But that lack ...

This Bride Wears Her Wedding Dress Every Year

As a mental health counselor and dating consultant, Samantha Burns knows a thing or two about successful relationships. And this self-proclaimed "millennial ...

Are We Alone in the Dark?

In his latest book, John Ortberg writes about our need to meaningfully connect with others:

In 2015, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley ...

Are Christian Men More Abusive?

In an article for Christianity Today, sociologist and researcher Brad Wilcox has investigated the claim that evangelical Protestantism is bad for marriage ...

Self-Sacrificial Love Gives Way to Cheap Sex

Kevin, a 24-year-old recent college graduate from Denver, wants to get married someday and is "almost 100% positive" that he will. But not soon, he says, ...

Cheap Sex is the New Norm

Marriage in the US is in open retreat. As recently as 2000, married 25- to 34-year-olds outnumbered their never-married peers by a margin of 55% to 34%, ...

Missing a Groom, Italian Woman Decides to Symbolically 'Marry Herself'

Every little girl dreams of the day she gets to walk down the aisle in a white dress toward her "Prince Charming." But when a "Prince Charming" didn't ...

An Unrealistic Search for the Perfect Soul Mate

In his book, This Is Our Time Trevin Wax relates the following story:

In his provocative book Modern Romance, the actor and comedian Aziz Ansari describes ...

Famous Musician's Wisdom on Marriage

The singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen (a Jew who seems to have an interest in the person of Jesus Christ) once called marriage "the hottest furnace ...

Rick and Kay Warren Were in 'Marital Hell'

In many ways, Rick and Kay Warren, one of the most public ministry couples in America, seemed to have the ideal marriage. But Kay Warren admits that their ...