Choosing a partner from another culture often comes with a fight to make the relationship work. The challenges are unpredictable, and the emotional toll — as well as the effort required — can be immense.
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With less social pressure, more financial autonomy for women and more opportunities to meet new people, there are many reasons for French couples in their 50s and 60s to separate — and to take pride in their decision.
Love doesn’t just happen out of thin air; it has everything to do with our material circumstances. Do we have an emotional issue, or simply a too demanding work schedule?
In Egypt’s sun-soaked tourist towns, a new form of romance blooms — one where age, money, and longing collide in quiet transactions masked as love.
For some, it’s an emotional issue; for others, it’s a legal case, one taught as early as the first year of law school.
In a world of fleeting relationships and endless options, choosing just one person for life might seem outdated — or even absurd. But for Alard Von Kittlitz, it’s exactly this all-in commitment that makes marriage one of the most meaningful, liberating and intimate experiences we can have.
The Industrial Revolution transformed Valentine’s Day by mass-producing greeting cards, turning a personal tradition into a commercialized industry. It’s a shift that not only changed the way emotions were expressed, but also gave rise to the concept of “manufactured intimacy,” which continues to define the holiday today.
Holidays are a time for family, and grandparents play a role too. Argentine journalist Ignacio Pereyra asks what happens when there are no grandparents around, and asks a grandmother to share her thoughts too.
Motivate them or leave them alone? Be honest or say nothing? It is not easy to deal well with depressed people. But psychology professionals say that those closest can often help even more than trained experts. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. Here’s how to help…
Many couples only live side-by-side.The children or the house still keep them together — and they open up their relationship. It may sound at first like a logical solution, but it’s more often than not the worst of all the options.
What do we know about what goes on in our bodies, and especially in our brains, when we’re in love? A new French essay, “Cerveau, sexe et amour” (Brain, Sex and Love), looks into this question.
The Lebanese coastal metropolis has long been a source of inspiration and freedom for Baghdad native poet Aya Mansour. As Israel sends ground troops into Lebanon, she asks how the world can watch as fire and smoke covers the beauty of Beirut without saying a word.
When Guinean President Mamady Doumbouya was inaugurated three years ago, her presence alongside the coup leader grabbed the public’s attention. And although she has increasingly made public appearances, little is still known about the French police officer turned first lady.
Updated July 29, 2024 at 10:35 a.m. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married on this day in 1981 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England. How did Prince Charles and Princess Diana meet? Prince Charles and Lady Diana met in 1977 when Charles was dating Diana’s older sister, Sarah. Their paths crossed again […]
July 6, 2024 at 11:10 a.m. Frida Kahlo was a renowned Mexican artist known for her distinctive and vibrant self-portraits. She was born on this day in 1907. Kahlo is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. What was Frida Kahlo’s childhood like? During her childhood, Frida contracted polio, which left […]
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Dear Love Letter, Where Have You Gone?
Whatever happened to the love letter? Many are sitting in literary archives, while today’s youth prefers WhatsApps and emojis.
Political battle lines are becoming increasingly entrenched, and opposing views are being pushed towards ever greater extremes. Language has become a battlefield. If morality pushes us apart, and religion does not help in the process, we may find a solution in our sense of humanity, writes German psychiatrist Manfred Lütz in Die Welt.
In countries and communities where sexuality is often kept under wraps, more and more women are taking up their microphones, pens and keyboards to talk about intimate issues without filters.
Sure, some men don’t want to be outshined. But there’s also the reality that so many women have internalized the myth of the beautiful admired woman, they often don’t understand their failure in love of such beauties, when it’s actually much like their own.
At first, Find My iPhone was a nifty feature that would help keep your cellphone safe. Now, with new location sharing technology, the app has become a new panopticon of control for Gen-Z couples, with their every move recorded by watchful eyes, nestled away in back pockets.
It’s difficult to take a breath in the middle of all of the parenting chaos — but if we aren’t able to tell when happy moments are unfolding, we risk missing them altogether.
All couples know the importance of addressing power dynamics and fostering open communication within a relationship. But discussions about privilege and discrimination — and the need for love, respect, and empathy — are all the more crucial for interracial couples.
As advocates in Hong Kong work to spread the word that being LGBTQ+ is not an illness, conversion therapy centers like New Creation continue to harm and traumatize those who want to get “out of the gay life.” Members of the LGBTQ+ community struggle to reconcile their faith and their orientation in a society that continues to be institutionally homophobic.
July 17 – July 23, 2023
Interfaith and inter-caste relationships have always been difficult in India. As the Supreme Court hears petitioners pleading for marriage equality, the time is ripe to see how laws and hatred have stopped love.
Why is it that this nation of a billion-plus has such problems with intimacy and romance?
Society sees friendships as far less important than love and life partnerships. But psychologists warn that the end of a close friendship can leave the “grieving” side in need of therapy.
At the head of Match Group, the online dating empire composed of Tinder, Meetic and Hinge, this CEO of Indian origin decides millions of people’s love lives on every continent. It’s a unique talent for turning digital relationship building into gold.
TEHRAN — An Iranian man who divorced his first wife over her “secretive” use of Instagram is now ending his second marriage for the same reason. Tehran-based Shargh daily cited the anonymous man from an unnamed city as admitting he had a “good life” with his first wife, until he found she was on Instagram […]
Hindu nationalist groups want to force the cancellation of Netflix shows that celebrate inter-religious romance with Muslims — it’s both censorship and ethnic prejudice.
Platforms like Tinder have a reputation for facilitating quick hook-ups. But their impact on society is far more profound than that, argues a French economics professor.
For some, France’s strict shelter-in-place period sank their relationships. Others say it helped. Either way, couples in the would-be land of romance found themselves at a real crossroads.
It’s a bittersweet scene captured at Milan’s Central Railway Station, at the global epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. With more than 800 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus and 12,000 infected in Italy, the northern region of Lombardy, which includes Milan, is by far the hardest hit, with 617 deaths as of Thursday. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has extended a severe lockdown to the entire country, with all shops, restaurants, cafes and bars being ordered to close, with the exception of grocery stores and pharmacies, until March 25. Amid the chaos and uncertainty, this photograph recalls Gabriel García Márquez” epic […]
Burk Uzzle’s image of loving (and muddy) couple at Woodstock has become a symbol for the 1960s hopes for a better future.
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Why Does The Left Love Islam So Much?
Some leftists are screaming racism because of a conference on the pros and cons of the headscarf in Frankfurt. One can only wish these people that they never have to live in the society that they are rooting for.
For many teenagers today, the rules and taboos of love have disappeared. They see it as territory for sexual — and bisexual — discoveries, not a quest for a partner.
In Italy, while some agencies put people in touch locally, others help customers find a spouse in Asia — and then fly them over for the nuptials.
-Essay- PARIS — This is not news, but dating today is a completely different animal than it was even five years ago, as new apps keep arriving to create “matches’ between people online who may have never come face-to-face otherwise. Personally, online or off, the whole “dating” thing has never really been my strong suit […]
He’s laughing and blushing, but he’s not having any of this Christmas singing stuff. No way!
Love, jealousy and courtship have become impatient, high-speed activities that play out on our computer screens and smartphones.