For Caroline, the wedding invitation was the first sign of trouble. On it, she and her fiancé had chosen to use a “simple, elegant, but certainly not traditional” black and white image of his native ...

Marriage is for flaunting. That’s what Andrew Cherlin said in an op-ed in the New York Times. Cherlin, author of The Marriage-Go-Round, has been studying marriage for decades. In contemporary American ...

For centuries, marriage has been romanticized as the ultimate symbol of love, a sacred bond, a lifelong commitment, a merging of souls. But peel away the poetry, and you’ll find a social institution ...