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Getting Ordained Online Used to Sound Like a Punchline Reserved for One Eccentric Best Friend at Every Wedding, but a Stunning Number of Americans Are Now Doing It Just to Marry Off Their Own Loved Ones

More than 1.76 million people have gotten themselves ordained through American Marriage Ministries alone, according to…

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Picking a First Dance Song Used to Mean Reaching for the Exact Same Handful of Tired Slow Ballads Every Single Time, but This Year’s Most Popular Wedding Picks Look Nothing Like That Old Tired Playlist

Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” held the No. 1 spot on The Knot’s first dance song rankings for…

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Dating Apps Built Their Entire Reputation on Being the Free, Casual Way to Meet Someone New Without Spending a Dime, but Desperate Singles Are Now Shelling Out Real Monthly Subscriptions Just for a Better Shot at Love

Thirty-five percent of Americans who have ever used a dating site or app have paid for…

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Wedding Registries Used to Mean a Painfully Predictable List of Dishware and Towels Picked Out Together, but Couples Are Now Ditching the Dishes Completely and Just Demanding Cold Hard Cash Instead

Eighty-seven percent of engaged couples now include at least one cash fund on their wedding registry,…

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Retirement Is Supposed to Finally Hand Long Married Couples All the Time Together They Spent Decades Dreaming About, but It Is Actually Blindsiding a Shocking Number of Their Marriages With Real Strain

It isn’t being retired that strains a marriage. It’s becoming retired. That distinction comes from a…

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Couples Therapy Used to Carry a Quiet, Shameful Stigma as an Absolute Last Resort for Marriages Already Collapsing, but Demand for It Has Exploded to Levels Therapists Say Reflect a Real Crisis in How Couples Are Coping

Family and couples therapy appointments booked through the mental health platform Headway rose 140% between 2023…

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Sharing One Bed Every Single Night Has Long Been Treated as Sacred, Nonnegotiable Proof of a Genuinely Strong Marriage, but a Shocking Share of Happily Married Couples Now Sleep in Completely Separate Rooms

More than a third of American adults regularly or occasionally sleep in a separate room from…

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Five Love Languages Became Sacred Gospel for an Entire Generation Desperate to Save Their Relationships, but Psychologists Are Now Quietly Admitting the Theory They Sold Millions of Couples On Barely Holds Up at All

Only 26.5% of couples in a peer-reviewed test of Gary Chapman’s five love languages actually matched…

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Video Games Still Get Blamed for Quietly Pulling Couples Apart and Devouring All Their Time Together, but Couples Who Actually Game Together Report Feeling Dramatically Closer Than the Ones Who Do Not

Seventy-six percent of couples who game together said it had a positive effect on their marriage….