Marriages
J-Lo Is Now Jennifer Affleck. Why That Matters.
Yes, it’s sometimes complicated. My daughters have my first husband’s last name. (My opposition to the patriarchy succumbed to my reluctance to saddle another generation of women with my awful last name.) I have my last name. My husband has his. Buying plane tickets or showing up for parent-teacher conferences can be confusing. And I […]
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It’s Never Too Late to Learn the Tango and Fall in Love
It’s Never Too Late is a series about people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Nancy Cardwell has made two big changes in her life. The first was quitting her job as a top-tier newspaper editor in New York to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. The second was a bit more […]
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Ivana Trump, Ex-Wife of Donald Trump and Businesswoman, Dies at 73
Ivana Trump, the glamorous Czech American businesswoman whose high-profile marriage to Donald J. Trump in the 1980s established them as one of the era’s quintessential New York power couples, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 73. Mr. Trump announced her death in a statement on Truth Social, the conservative social media […]
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China Offers Women Perks for Having Babies, if They’re Married
When Chan Zhang heard about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, she was baffled that Americans were still arguing over abortion rights. “Here, overall, the society does not encourage abortion,” said Ms. Zhang, a 37-year-old junior faculty member at a prestigious university on China’s east coast, “but I feel like women […]
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7 Questions to Strengthen Your Relationship
The past two-plus years have been universally tumultuous, and couples therapists say they have been dealing with the fallout in their practices every day. Even now, when the pandemic no longer dominates daily life, many Americans continue to work, shop and do so much online that they count on their partners to meet their social […]
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I Married the Wrong Person, and I’m So Glad I Did
I don’t know if I truly loved my husband when we got married or if I even knew what love was. But I know that we are learning to love each other with each passing day and that there is profound joy in that messy process. There are nights when he sits quietly reading, and […]
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The Branded Marriage of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker
This weekend, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker got married for the third time, following a just-for-fun ceremony in Las Vegas with Elvis presiding and an intimate legal ceremony in Santa Barbara, Calif. But in every sense, this was the Big One — hosted at a castle in Portofino, Italy, and staged in front of a […]
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The 17th-Century English Judge Behind Abortion and Rape Rulings Today
Reporting trips, for me, are always an exercise in finding similarities among differences: the ribbons of shared dilemmas, conflicts and social changes that link people together, no matter their nation. I spent most of the past two weeks in India, where that effort turned out to be more straightforward than expected. I was there working […]
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This Man Married a Fictional Character. He’d Like You to Hear Him Out.
TOKYO — In almost every way, Akihiko Kondo is an ordinary Japanese man. He’s pleasant and easy to talk to. He has friends and a steady job and wears a suit and tie to work. There’s just one exception: Mr. Kondo is married to a fictional character. His beloved, Hatsune Miku, is a turquoise-haired, computer-synthesized […]
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