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A new book applies the market rules of cold hard capitalism to the economy of your marriage to help you efficiently allocate limited resources such as time, money, sanity and, yes, even your sex drive.

UCLA's Family Studies Center researched 1,500 couples who had been together for five or more years and who acknowledged having a strong, close, deeply committed bond. The couples revealed six common characteristics...

Is marriage becoming obsolete? As families gather for Thanksgiving this year, nearly 1 in 3 American children is living with a parent who is divorced, separated or never-married. More people are accepting the view that wedding bells aren't needed to have a family. A Pew Research Center study highlights rapidly changing notions of the American family.

We often think of antique relationship advice found in dusty books written by long-dead elders as useless or good only for a laugh.

This week, Sophie talks about how to be a parent and a lover and answers your general relationships questions.

Husbands, if you end up in the doghouse, consider it a promotion. A third of pet-owning married women said their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll released Wednesday. Eighteen percent of pet-owning married men said their pets are better listeners than their wives.

Madonna doesn't think a wife should withhold sex from a sloppy husband....

Once upon a time, Hollywood golden boy Brad Pitt had a pretty perfect relationship with America's sweetheart, Jennifer Aniston. Then, Pitt filmed Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie, and the sparks apparently flew. Pitt and Jolie morphed into Brangelina, and Aniston was left a sad, empty shell of her former self.

It would seem the series is going out with a grateful sigh of relief, if not a whimper, after months in the midst of noise and upheaval. The feuding couple's split came to dominate the series, as well as helping fuel a firestorm of tabloid coverage.

On “The Howard Stern Show,” Rosie O’Donnell talked publicly for the first time about her relationship troubles with partner Kelli Carpenter and about Oprah Winfrey and the gay rumors.