University courses not only determine what you’ll earn, but who you’ll end up marrying, if at allYou’ve got to choose carefully what you study at university because the subject determines what you go on to earn. Men taking creative arts degrees on aver…
How we met: ‘I sent him a Facebook message by accident’
Joe, 32, and Beth, 31, met in 2014 after a message she was sending to one of her friends went astray. They now live together in Wiltshire with their puppy, HansWhen Joe was at university in 2010, his housemate went through a phase of logging into his F…
The Guardian view on predatory marriage: new safeguards are needed | Editorial
The state has taken too casual an approach. Of course a person’s capacity to marry should be checkedA brave woman, Daphne Franks, wants to reform some of the laws connected with marriage. Since 2016, when her mother died and it emerged that she had sec…
Power of attorney doesn’t help in tackling predatory marriage | Letters
Daphne Franks on one of the many horrendous gaps in procedure that are failing elderly and vulnerable peopleThank you for publishing Anna Moore’s article about our campaign against predatory marriage – we have received many supportive emails from …
What’s love got to do with it? Marrying for money might be on the way back | Torsten Bell
Ads reveal companionship has increasingly been a motivation but some may still opt for marriage as a rare route to wealthHumans have been getting married for a long time, but at least some of their motivations for doing so have changed over time.The ro…
Three and/or Sixty-One Literary Bears
Patricia Lockwood (LRB, 08/12/2021), “Pull Off My Head”: “Is Bear one of those 1970s books about growing out your armpit hair? Kind of, but not only. Is it a metaphor for our relationship to nature? Fuck off.” Marlena Williams (LitHub, 10/23/2020), “Sy…
‘Now I know love is real!’ The people who gave up on romance – then found it in lockdown
Dating apps can be difficult and daunting at the best of times, and many users give up on them entirely. But for some the pandemic was a chance to reassess their priorities, and they were able to forge a much deeper connectionWhen the country first wen…
Share your experiences of getting married over the age of 65
As marriages among people over 65 are on the rise, we would like to hear your stories of tying the knotMarriages among people over the age of 65 are on the rise, according to the Office for National Statistics, partly due to the increasing popularity o…
Why divorce is up and marriages are down – except in Clitheroe
According to new figures released by the ONS, the number of people getting hitched has plummeted since the 1960s. But some places are bucking the trendName: Marriage.Age: The first recorded evidence of a wedding ceremony dates to 2350BC, in Mesopotamia…
In a house move blunder, I’ve blown it with my wife. Can I scapegoat the delivery men? | Romesh Ranganathan
My wife was in the new house waiting for a delivery. I was in the old one working. What could possibly go wrong?My wife and I rarely have a proper argument, so it came as quite a shock to both of us when one did come along. I would describe it as less …