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No Rush to Altar as Vermont Starts Marrying Gays

Fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage sees little demand

(Newser) - After 17 years together, a couple from upstate New York married at 12:01 this morning—the first same-sex couple to wed in Vermont. Today the Green Mountain State, which gave the US civil unions, becomes the fifth state and fourth in New England to allow gays and lesbians to...

No Wedding Gifts, Please; Just Fund My Startup

(Newser) - A Silicon Valley couple has forsaken a traditional wedding registry for venture capital, Gawker reports. “The World's First Start-up Wedding Registry” doesn’t ask guests for appliances or candlesticks; instead, they can give enough to “feed an outsourced engineer for a day” or pay a month’s worth...

Mali's President Bails on Women's Rights Law

Protests force him to send it back for review

(Newser) - Mali's president says he won't sign a controversial new law that gives more rights to women, the BBC reports. President Amadou Toumani Toure says he supports the so-called family law, which Muslim leaders have denounced as the devil's work, but is sending it back to parliament for review. "I...

Fibs Are Good for Marriage
 Fibs Are Good for Marriage 
OPINION
Aug 26, 2009 6:00 PM CDT

Fibs Are Good for Marriage

(Newser) - Raina Kelley is not happy with this "new spate of advice talking about how lying is bad for a relationship," she writes in Newsweek. "That is my line in the sand. Marriages cannot exist without dishonesty." Now, she doesn't mean the big stuff, like adultery. She's...

Marriage Cuts Male Health Risks by 10%

(Newser) - Marriage is healthier for men than lowering their blood pressure or even quitting smoking, a new study says. Researchers at the University of Arizona looked at 1,715 people aged 57 to 85 and found that married men had less of a protein that has been linked to stroke, depression,...

Determined Diver Finds Lost Wedding Ring in Harbor

(Newser) - When Aleki Taumoepeau lost his wedding ring at the bottom of Wellington Harbor in New Zealand, his wife offered to buy him a new one. But Taumoepeau would have none of it, swearing he’d find the original ring. He’d thrown an anchor in after it, and was convinced...

Winehouse Talks Blake Into Taking Her Back

(Newser) - Amy Winehouse has convinced rehabbing hubby Blake Fielder-Civil to rekindle their relationship, the News of the World reports. "I love her as much as ever. I know she still loves me," says Blake, who agreed to a dinner date when he gets out of rehab. "Maybe...

Forget Chastity: Marry Earlier, Say Evangelicals

(Newser) - The evangelical stress on abstinence until marriage is fantastic, writes Mark Regnerus—himself devout—in Christianity Today, "but promoting it has come at a cost." Doing so has "turned our attention away from the damage that Americans are doing to the institution of marriage by discouraging it...

Kenyan to Chelsea: Marry Me, Get Free Livestock

Man renews dowry offer first made in 2000

(Newser) - Hoping for Chelsea Clinton’s hand in marriage, a Kenyan man offered a dowry of 40 goats and 20 cows in 2000. Now, he's renewing the offer and America's top diplomat mom has gotten involved: “She's very independent," responded Hillary Clinton, asked about the offer, at a Nairobi...

Pain + Sacrifice = Marital Bliss
 Pain + Sacrifice 
 = Marital Bliss 

glossies
Aug 8, 2009 4:35 PM CDT

Pain + Sacrifice = Marital Bliss

Adversity makes couples' bond stronger, experts say

(Newser) - Marital bliss? Toss it out the window, and get down to pain and anguish ASAP, experts say. While many studies find that stress can exacerbate a marriage—turning a short-tempered husband into an abusive one, for example—some experts say adversity is the key to marital success. "It’s...

Domesticated Swedes Make Best Husbands

Brits, Americans land in top 5 on 'egalitarian index'; Aussies last

(Newser) - Swedish men make the best husbands, while Australian men, preferring beer and sports over housework, rank lowest on an “egalitarian index” outlined in a study of 12 developed nations. Domestic roles carry less stigma in egalitarian societies, one researcher tells the Telegraph, “so the likelihood of forming a...

Not Feeling Sexy? 'Just Do It.'

New book reveals reasons behind lack of sex in marriage

(Newser) - Why does passion so often fizzle in a marriage? Prepare to be shocked: Bettina Arndt’s The Sex Diaries reveals the reasons aren’t what you think, the Daily Mail reports. Included in the nearly 100 couples who kept diaries for a year are many men who love their wives...

Taiwan Bridles Foreign Wife Brokers
Taiwan Bridles Foreign Wife Brokers
Jul 31, 2009 7:45 PM CDT

Taiwan Bridles Foreign Wife Brokers

Lawmakers angry over unions built on 'weak foundations'

(Newser) - Taiwan is clamping down on companies that arrange quicky foreign marriages for male customers, the BBC reports. Many Taiwanese men say they fly to Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia and Vietnam for brides because women in Taiwan are putting off marriage for career. But officials say cross-border weddings are built...

Divorce May Permanently Damage Health

(Newser) - The end of a marriage means the end of good health for many people, a new study finds. Researchers discovered that people who lost a spouse, whether through divorce or death, were roughly 20% more likely to suffer chronic health problems even if they later remarried, HealthDay reports. The scientists...

Serial Female Bigamist Dodges UK Jail

(Newser) - A British woman who married five times but never divorced was spared a jail sentence for bigamy yesterday, the Telegraph reports. The judge told former model Emily Horne that while her behavior had undermined the institution of marriage, he would give her a suspended sentence because she was making progress...

Anglican Church Offers Two-in-One Wedding-Baptism

(Newser) - With more than two in five British children born out of wedlock, the Anglican Church is introducing a new liturgical twofer—a combination wedding and baptism. The so-called "hatch and match" service is designed to encourage marriage, and senior bishops insist that the Church is not changing its teachings....

Russian Green Card Marriages Are Big Biz in NY

(Newser) - Russian women are so eager for green cards that one New York-area weekly devotes an entire page to marriage ads, the New York Post reports. A Post reporter, posing as an immigrant angling for a green card, contacted a marriage broker and got the going rate: $31,500, $6,500...

Recession Puts Brakes on Divorces
Recession
Puts Brakes
on Divorces
Jul 13, 2009 12:04 PM CDT

Recession Puts Brakes on Divorces

Would-be exes stay under one roof to avoid real estate losses

(Newser) - A lot of unhappy couples are staying together—or at least staying under one roof—thanks to the recession, the Wall Street Journal reports. Many would-be exes are putting off breakups, unwilling to sell their houses in a down market or unable to afford new ones. Some even continue to...

Oops! Obama Goofs on How He Met Michelle

(Newser) - Husbands of the world relax—Barack Obama isn’t perfect after all. The president made a fairly public marital goof today, when he seemingly forgot how he met the first lady. “I don’t know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I...

Marriage Makes You Fat: Study
 Marriage Makes You Fat: Study 
Jun 29, 2009 1:41 PM CDT

Marriage Makes You Fat: Study

(Newser) - As couples grow more committed to each other, their waistlines often grow as well, Time reports. During their first few years of matrimony, couples are twice as likely to become obese as their dating peers, according to a new study being published next month. If they merely move in with...

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