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City of Love Issues Manual to Stop Forced Marriages
Paris, the universal capital of love and romance, created a manual on forced marriages this week to help officials spot and prevent cases of young women being forced into matrimony.
An estimated 70,000 young women in France are victims (or potential victims) of forced marriages, according to a government study. City officials who conduct weddings often don't know how to deal with their suspicion — clearly they haven't spent time in Vegas!
Ask a Wife: How Do I Stop Being the Other Woman?
Conventional Wisdom is a different kind of advice column. Your questions will be answered by people from all walks of life rather than by advice experts. This week, a woman in a happy marriage tries to help out a woman stuck in an affair.
Dear Poll: Do You Need a Marriage Certificate to Prove Your Love?
Reuters just came out with a new study in which four out of ten Americans said they don't need a marriage license to prove their love or commitment to their significant other. Out of the 7,113 people —ages 20 to 69 — surveyed, the consensus was that a marriage license wasn't necessary in order to validate their relationship.
I've said it once and I'll say it again, I'm old-fashioned — when the time comes for me to get married, I'm going to want that certificate, but what about you?
Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Same-Sex Funeral Rights
Rhode Island's state legislature thought it would be a good idea to give same-sex partners the right to plan each other's funerals when one partner passes away. It's a right married couples have, of course. But Gov.
Are Video Proposals Online Cowardly or Cute?
Last night Tumblr users signed on to see "Marissa Nystrom, will you marry me?" bannered across their dashboards, whether or not they followed proposer Justin Johnson's blog. The link goes to this genuinely thoughtful, romantic, and well-edited video, but I presume his girlfriend follows his blog.
Gender Roles — Love 'Em Or Leave 'Em?
Here's a poll from OnSugar blog Rantings of a Single Girl.
Let's go back to the 1940s for a minute. My grandmother was married, raised a kid, ran a farm, taught school, and kept a clean house.
Ask a Divorced Woman: Can I Save My Marriage?
Conventional Wisdom is a different kind of advice column. Your questions will be answered by people from all walks of life rather than by advice experts. If you have a question you'd like answered on Conventional Wisdom, you can submit it here.
How Do I Handle This Strip Club Situation?
This post comes from Group Therapy in our TrèsSugar Community. Feel free to add your advice in the comments!
First of all my husband and I have been married for half of a year now.
The Beard (the Other Kind) in Pop Culture
It's National Beard Month and that doesn't just mean facial hair. Not to us anyway! A whole other beard genre's been growing since the middle of the 20th century — the gay cover-up beard, which is slang for a person of the opposite sex used as a cover for a gay partner.
In Love and Marriage, Do Traditional Titles Matter?
The overturning of the ban on same-sex marriage in California has changed many lives and simultaneously sparked a slew of arguments. In fact, as reported by the Sacramento Bee, a recently wed couple — Rachel Bird and Gideon Codding — are starting their own debate over the wording of the new gender-neutral marriage license, which has changed the traditional reference of Bride and Groom to Party A and Party B.
Bird offered her own explanation, saying: "We are traditionalists — we just want to be called bride and groom," and for this couple, anything else is unacceptable; they refuse to sign the license as-is.
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