Relationships

At a picnic for a one year olds’ birthday recently, a fellow party guest excitedly confessed he was about to get the snip. He was thrilled and told me it was high time as his third daughter had definitely been a surprise, and he certainly wasn’t risking fatherhood a fourth time around. I had met […]

Fred Stobagh considers himself tone-deaf, but a beautiful and heartbreaking love song he penned for his wife has turned him into an international recording sensation. The 96-year-old US man met the love of his life, Lorraine, in 1938. He describes her as “the most gorgeous girl I ever saw”. They would rarely leave each other’s […]

Another royal wedding could be just around the corner with reports that Prince Harry is preparing to pop the question. The 28-year-old prince’s relationship with dancer Cressida Bonas has been getting serious and friends of the couple say he has been hinting at a proposal ‘any day now’. “The way it’s looking now people close […]

The number of women cheating on their husbands has risen by more than 40 per cent in the past 20 years, a new study reveals. The National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Survey found that one in six wives cheat on their husbands, up from about one in 10 in 1991. The percentage of men […]

Look out ladies, there’s a new breed of bachelor in town. Only they’re not in town at all — they’re out working on the land. The age of the metrosexual is well and truly over with women shifting their preferences towards blokes who are handy with a tractor and know how to muster sheep. Welcome […]

Married couples who met online are happier and more likely to stay together than those who found love in more traditional ways, a study has revealed. Based on more than 19,000 people who married between 2005 and 2012, the US study by researchers in the Proceedings of the National Acedemy of Sciences found that the […]

The internet has been helping people find love for years — now it’s assisting them when things go sour, allowing them to organise their divorce online. A new software program called Wevorce has launched in the US this week, allowing couples to negotiate the terms of their divorce settlement on the internet. Instead of paying […]

Women are monogamous and men are promiscuous, or at least that’s how the stereotype goes. But evidence is mounting that when the spark fizzles out of a relationship, women are the ones who feel the itch faster. Studies are suggesting women get bored with monogamy faster than sex, but this doesn’t necessarily translate into infidelity, […]

The number of couples divorcing after 20 years of marriage has doubled in the past 10 years as more parents wait until the kids leave home to separate. In 2011, 28 per cent of divorces occurred after 20 years of marriage, up from 13 per cent in 1990, according to a report released by the […]

A US study claims that not having time to date or find love is no longer an acceptable excuse — you only need four minutes. Focusing on language, the researchers from Stanford universities discovered what makes couples ‘click’ on a four minute speed-date and found that couples were able to form meaningful bonds. The study […]