Marriage

Beaten on Gay Marriage, Rightbloggers Begin Berating Straights

Maybe it's because everyone's sick of fighting over gay marriage. Maybe it's because our rightblogger friends' tactic of Adam-and-Steving the issue hasn't helped their increasingly hopeless cause, even within the Republican Party. In any case some of the brethren are working a new angle. Well, not ... More >>

Happy Valentine's Day! Cutest East Village Couple Give Love Advice: "There Is No Love Today"

"I love you, God bless you and see you tomorrow," is how Pilar La Rosa bids adieu to her regular patrons at Pilar Jewelry Repair on East 7th Street. Shopping at her quaint boutique is always a joy, though for the most part we stop by for no apparent reason other than to chat with owners Pilar and he ... More >>

Study Says Women Drink More Than Men in Marriage

"Honey get me a beer." According to a recent study by the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, marriage means more drinking for women and less for men. Married women actually drink more than previously married women, but married men drink less than previously married men.

Hope Springs

Edith Windsor, Octogenarian Lesbian Widow: Take My DOMA Case to the Supreme Court!

Edith Windsor, the octogenarian lesbian widow who successfully sued the federal government for over chariging her $363,000 in estate taxes, wants to take her case to the Supreme Court. According to a press release from the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Windsor along with the ... More >>

Prehistoric Aggression: More Reasons Katie Holmes Was Smart to Avoid Scientology Marriage Counseling

In its print edition today, the New York Times is catching up to something we printed on Wednesday about the weirdness of Scientology's marriage counseling. After news broke that Katie Holmes was divorcing Tom Cruise, various news outlets relied on Scientology PR to give the impression that, as ABC ... More >>

Scientology Marriage Counseling Comes Down to This: "What Have You Done to Tom?"

Since news of the Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise divorce filing broke last week, media outlets have been scrambling to put together basic information about Scientology, which appears to be central to the couple's split. We couldn't help notice that numerous news organizations have been relying on Scientol ... More >>

Arsenic and Old Lace

Black Butterflies

Daniel O'Donnell, First Openly-Gay New York Assemblyman, Talks About His Wedding: 'This Is About Love'

All you need is love! And for Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell -- the right to marry. Runnin' Scared was tired of talking to folks about the dark, gloomy world of New York City politics. All that anger and attacking gives us a headache sometimes! Why not a love story this Friday? Turns out, that's e ... More >>

Payroll Tax Cut Extended; Kobe Bryant Divorce; Rare 'Generator Suicide' to Blame for Fatal Elevator Accident?

​Senate leaders agreed to extend the payroll tax cut, the Washington Post reports, "averting a New Year's tax increase for millions of workers." "Under the separate Senate agreement on the payroll tax, the rate paid by 160 million workers would remain at 4.2 percent through February, rather th ... More >>

The Terrorizers

All the Single (Black) Ladies

Ralph Richard Banks dares to wonder Is Marriage for White People?

Single People Are Doomed

​WTF, science? Today in news we could, perhaps quite literally, live without, it turns out that not only are single people kinda screwed tax-wise and forced to buy their married friends gifts in honor of their marriages and their children whom we must also affix photographs of to our sad littl ... More >>

Laura Fotusky, New York Town Clerk, Resigns Over Gay Marriage Law

​Citing insufficient language meant to protect religious people in the marriage equality bill, town clerk Laura Fotusky, who will soon be required to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, has resigned instead. "There was no protection provided in the legislation for Town Clerks who are unabl ... More >>

Your Commute Could Be Killing Your Marriage

​Of all the factors that can lead to the dissolution of your wedded bliss -- think cheating, financial issues, falling out of love, "growing apart" -- the most stealthy and yet devastating may be (it's hard to even say it): HAVING A LONG COMMUTE. This comes to us by way of a Swedish study repo ... More >>

Men Relax More When Their Wives Are Doing Chores (Seriously)

​Today in stereotype-reinforcing studies, we get this: Guess what? The stress levels of married women drop when their husbands help them with chores. But married men relax most when their wives are busy doing things besides relaxing. Hm! And we wonder why women seem to be less interested in ge ... More >>

Tokyo Twilight

Kids Today Care About Parenthood, Not Marriage

​According to a new Pew Research Center survey, something we've had an inkling of for a while now may indeed be true. Young adults -- let's be more obnoxious and call them "Millennials" -- have changing views of social institutions like marriage and having children. Not surprisingly, they are ... More >>

One Hour With You

Maybe This Is Why Married People Want to Live Vicariously Through Their Single Friends

​A groundbreaking new study has determined that the happiness of the person you are married to is linked to your own happiness, reports the Wall Street Journal. That means that if the person you're married to is always complaining and nagging and annoyed and depressed, you probably will be, to ... More >>

Don't Cheat in the Marital Bed, Lest Your Spouse Get Really Mad

via​The New York Times gets all Closer with a huge feature on the front page of the Home section today, the subject of which is not just cheating, but cheating in the "marital bed," and how maybe that's the worst thing you could ever, ever, ever do to a partner (if you're wealthy and/or white) ... More >>

How Not to Regret Your Life in 23 Easy Steps, by The Internet

​What is happening to everyone? This week, two prominent blog posts about regrets people have surfaced on the internet. One, made up of all stripes of reader submissions at the New York Times CityRoom blog, the other, via The Hairpin, made up of women in their 30s' submissions at AOL's Lemondr ... More >>

Tokyo Twilight

Mental Illness Is a Bummer in Helen

Old Testament sex advice: "The Bible is concerned about the husband's attitude toward his wife's breasts."

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Bed Room Talk Author: David & Carole Hocking Date: 1984 Publisher: Har ... More >>

John Doe & Exene Cervenka

Topper

Wedding Vows Make Me Queasy

I HATE the idea of marriage--it's pretty much destroyed society as we know it--but if people insist on continuing with that particular soul-crushing institution, don't you think personalized vows are way better than the old "I will be your slave till death do us part" type of thing? The sweetest vo ... More >>

Clip Job: Manville's 'Saloon Society' - A Dissenting View

From The Crap Archives: How to Be Happy Though Married

Stuck in a Sexless Marriage? You're Not Alone.

Why over 3000 people have shared their tales of platonic woe at ExperienceProject.com.

The Non-Fatal Attractions of Martha Wainwright

Wry tales of ill-advised crushes from a singer-songwriter as blunt as she is funny

My Only Friend Is a Lesbian and It Makes My Hubby Jealous. What Do I Do?

Married Life: Far From Far From Heaven

Inspired by Todd Haynes, this competent '50s chamber drama doesn't quite compare

Invasion of Iraq Too Risky, Cheney Says

Small-Town Country Girl Proves Album Title Perfectly Apt

Cheater Seeks Cheater

Married people find other married people for affairs through websites

Keeping Married Sex Hot

Reddened cheeks, damp panties, and bedroom bliss

Bliss or Miss

Getting over the gay-wedding jitters

Marriage of Two Minds

Gay nups may have become inevitable, but for now it's a world of pain

Awkward Kerry, Hopeless Bush

The candidates' pitiful pitch for single women

Film

Gays Need Not Apply

Nick and Marc-Anthony Learn You Can't Fight City Hall

Stop the Wedding!

Why Gay Marriage Isn't Radical Enough

Beyond the Threshold

Marriage Programs Preview What Bush Has in Store

Love That Dare Not

Why We Should Support the Right to Marry Plurally

The Last Temptation of Minister Benjamin

Inside the Sex Scandal at Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7

Make a New Plan, Stan

Divorce Sites Offer 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Sikh and You Shall Find

The American face of arranged marriage.