marriage

It’s clichéd. It’s quaint. It rhymes. And as it turns out, it’s true.

The life you start after getting married is supposed to be the best time of your life. You fall in love, get married, move in together, start having children, and grow old together. Of course life isn't always rainbows and butterflies. For one couple in New York, the fact that they each have mental disabilities is stopping them from living together, even in a group home.

Congratulations to actress and singer, Tichina Arnold! Tichina married long-time boo, Rico Hines in Hawaii and showed off her friends and family on her Twitter page. This is the second marriage for Arnold. She told Essence.com that they happy couple chose Hawaii because they enjoyed their first vacation there.

If you've been dating a man for awhile and are wondering when he's going to pop the question, you may want to reexamine the biggest hurdle that faces you daily. YOU! Here are the top 5 ways for my single gals who are ready to go from just girlfriend, to his WIFE. You may want to even bookmark this page because this is the best advice I'll ever give you on relationships. And yes, it will work! Read

Since the colonial days, marriage has been an important institution in American culture. By a certain age, marriage was not only heeded to, but expected of young couples. However, recently Americans’ views on marriage have changed.

It’s always been said that men are afraid of commitment, and now there’s research to back it up. Sorry ladies, this applies to you as well. A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that fewer and fewer adults are actually getting married these days.

Last week, news spread quickly about a church in Kentucky that banned interracial marriages. On Saturday, the congregation of that church overturned the decision.

Although it may seem like it, this isn’t a news story from the past. In a case of pure irony, the Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Pike County, KY, passed a proposal to ban interracial marriages in their congregation. Reverend Melvin Thompson, a former pastor of the church, first submitted the idea to a church committee, which then passed the proposal with a vote of nine to six. Funny enough, th

When you get married, you take the other person for richer or poorer, right? Well, with wedding season itching closer than the space between belly button and cummerbund, you might want to know just how rich and how poor you’re talking about before exchanging "I dos." A new survey from COUNTRY Financial found that only 51% of couples discussed how they would manage their money before tyi

Bello Maasaba is what you might call a ladies' man. Maasaba is an Islamic faith healer in Niger who has married 107 women and fathered a whopping 185 children. Polygamy is common in the African country, but Maasaba's tally is high even by that nation’s standards.

The government in China is creating a marriage database, which it hopes will be a useful tool to expose cheaters. As the wealth in the country has exploded, it has created a culture of secret mistresses and second wives, even though bigamy in China is illegal.