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Keeping a New Relationship Off Social Media Used to Be the Obvious, Cautious Default for Almost Every Couple in America, but Most Couples Now Go Fully Public With It Long Before They Actually Know If It Will Last

Half of social media users between 18 and 29 have already posted something about their dating…

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Cheating Used to Mean One Obvious Physical Line That Almost Nobody Could Argue About Crossing, but Younger Couples Now Brand a Long List of Tiny Everyday Habits as Full Blown Betrayal Too

Forty-one percent of Americans now count an ongoing flirtatious text conversation as cheating, according to a…

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College Students Get Assumed to Be Obsessed Purely With Classes, Parties, and Figuring Out Their Own Future First, but a Surprising Number Are Racing Down the Aisle Before They Even Graduate or Know Who They Really Are

A federal survey of nearly 21,000 U.S. undergraduates found that 18% of them were already married…

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Parents Swear Up and Down They Love Every One of Their Kids the Exact Same Amount No Matter What, but Almost Every Adult Sibling Can Instantly Name Which One Was the Favorite and Which One Got Quietly Left Behind

Eighty percent of older mothers, when researchers sat them down and asked directly, admitted they had…

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Stepparents Often Spend Years Raising a Child and Assume That Bond Comes With Some Kind of Real Legal Protection, but Most States Actually Hand Them Almost No Rights at All If It Ever Falls Apart

Roughly 40 percent of married couples raising children in the United States are stepfamilies, according to…

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Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski Looked Like One of Hollywood’s Most Rock Solid, Drama Free Marriages for Nine Straight Years, but They Just Confirmed in Their Own Joint Statement It Is Completely Over

Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski confirmed their marriage is over, telling People in a joint statement…

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Wedding Guest Lists Used to Balloon Past Two Hundred People Without Anyone Ever Batting an Eye, but the Average Wedding Has Quietly Shrunk to Under One Hundred Guests, Leaving a Lot of Family and Friends Off the List Entirely

The average American wedding welcomed 117 guests in 2025, according to The Knot’s Real Weddings Study,…

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Everyone Blames a Brutal Dating Pool for Why So Many People Are Stuck Single Right Now, but for Men, Just Being Bad at Keeping a Relationship Alive More Than Doubles Their Odds of Ending Up Alone

Men whose relationships keep falling apart are not losing out to a brutal dating market so…