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There are few things less romantic than talking about money. Money is, in some ways, a bigger cultural taboo than sex. You might tell your girlfriends about your hot date Saturday night, but you probably don’t tell anyone your exact salary or expenses.

Sounds expensive. Move over, chocolate. You ve got company in the aphrodisiac aisle. A new study has found that a diet with the spices saffron and ginseng can actually heat up your sex life.

One in five American moms have kids who have different birth fathers, a new study shows. And when researchers look only at moms with two or more kids, that figure is even higher: 28 percent have kids with at least two different men.

When most people end a relationship, they don't start creating websites to insult, embarrass and terrorize their exes. Unfortunately, that's exactly what one man did — and now he's been jailed for it.

As the economy slowly rebounds, some couples are stuck living together long after they have made the decision to divorce. Employment and housing issues can make it hard to break up.

As if the vast distributed intelligence of the Internet were seeking to drive home a theme of my last post, I just tripped across this Reuters article relating some findings from the first wave of the UK household longitudinal study. The ambitious government-funded study will follow 40,000 households over 20 years, allowing researchers to tease out how changes in income, health, marital status, educational attainment and so on affect individual well-being over time.  Reporteth Reuters:

From our friends at Food52.com comes this collection of last-minute Valentine's Day dinner menus, with tips on how to successfully pull them together. For more Valentine's Day recipes, cocktails and wine recommendations, check out the related links below the menus.Get cooking!

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...

Half of men would forgive their female partner's infidelity, as long as it was with another woman, according to a new study on cheating.