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A Good Relationship With Your In-Laws Is Rarely About Love

Getting along with your partner’s parents doesn’t mean becoming family. For writer Adam Fletcher and his partner, the secret to harmony lies (mostly) in boundaries.

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Iranian Court Orders Woman To Obey Her Husband — And Promises To Enforce It

The decision is yet another example of how Iran’s laws since the 1979 revolution have restricted women’s rights both inside and outside the home.

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Who Cleans Up After Spilled Milk?

A couple’s therapy session puts its own mental load spin on an idiom.

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Ideas Society

A Disturbing Return Of Chinese ‘Female Virtues’

Over the past two years, so-called “Female Virtues classes” have become popular across China, particularly among the less-educated. The classes mainly promote antiquated ideas about how women should be submissive. It’s obviously a shrewd businessmen’s way of cashing in — but the fact that flocks of women attend them also demonstrates a certain deep-seated ethical […]

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