Sleep—nobody gets enough of it. But while both men and women suffer from lack of sleep, they differ in what prevents them from getting sound rest. When we lay our heads on our his-and-hers pillows at night, social and biological factors come into play that keep a woman awake all night with a baby while her husband sleeps like one.

Estrogen: The Insomnia Hormone
In a spring 2008 Ms. magazine article, "Why We Can't Sleep," Gayle Greene wrote that 67 percent of women experience frequent sleep problems, though three-quarters of all sleep research has focused on men. According to Greene, who is … Read More

Recently, my boyfriend expressed some fear that we had moved too fast. While it's only been four months, it feels like way more. Not quite a lifetime, but certainly a few years. We had clicked almost instantly, and while I was less than a year out of a nearly five-year relationship and he was, um, not quite divorced (a whole other topic), it seemed too good to pass up. I felt ready to be totally vulnerable and open to someone new, no matter where that might lead me. It has been (mostly) awesome. The Frisky: Retaining Your Individuality When You're … Read More

There are only two reasons why I'd move in and live with another girlfriend. We're married and determined to fill a sweatshop with our nimble-fingered love critters. Or she cracks me in the head with a shovel, sews my mouth shut, replaces my eyeballs with marbles, and sits my stuffed body in the corner. Whatever you do, don't move in with your boyfriend. What? It's too late? Sweet Zeus, Odin, and Quetzalcoatl, winged serpent god of the Aztecs! I hope your cohabitation doesn't end the way two (two!) of mine did – with helicopters launching off the roof amidst tornadoes … Read More

You've heard it from cohabitants time and again: living with someone means making major lifestyle compromises—relinquishing half the bed, the closet, the TV remote, etc. But what about the microscopic adjustments that catch a couple completely off-guard?

The Washington Post just posted this chuckle-worthy piece on the annual thermostat war waged between wives who appreciate the summery climate and husbands who believe in the power of the almighty air-conditioning. Read: 5 Things I Hate About My Marriage

"This is a real phenomenon," said Kathryn Sandberg, director of the Georgetown University Center for the Study of Sex Differences … Read More

Here's to hoping this isn't a new type of breakup.

From NYTimes.com comes a story about a couple who were engaged to be married but ultimately decided against it. The hitch is that they still own two abodes together—an apartment in NYC and a lake house in the country—which means navigating who pays what on their two mortgages and divvying up weekends at their once-cozy vacation home.

Now, we realize times are tough during the recession, but if we had to cohabit with our ex, well, let's just say only one of us would come of it … Read More

Joshua Jackson, whom we will try not to refer to as "Pacey" for the rest of this blog post, and his ladyfriend of three years, Troy's Diane Kruger, are shacking up in the lovely seaside city of Vancouver, People reports. We are delighted for them and not at all green with envy that they will be right next to the 2010 Olympics and also are very beautiful, talented people who are in love and probably having excellent, prolific sex with each other.

The reason for the move is work, nominally; Josh stars on Fox's Fringe, which got a … Read More

It's out with the old and in with the new for Jennifer Aniston.

According to an upcoming In Touch Weekly, Aniston and 300 actor Gerard Butler are getting cozy. Apparently the two have been having secret meetings in a New York apartment, Aniston's friends told to the magazine. Aniston and Butler are reportedly working on two upcoming movies together which has sparked some feelings. “She said that in their film meetings, their chemistry was intense and physical,” the friend told the magazine. The two have been friends since last year, while Aniston was still involved … Read More

Facebook to finances; housewives to one-night stands, if you weren't on top of YourTango this week, you missed out.Video: Facebook Manners and You In what one viewer calls, "the best video describing Facebook since EVER," see what happens when Timmy's and Alice's bad facebook habits clash.Feature: Love, Money & Commitment: The Life Of An Un-Wife Nationally known journalist, author and activist Judith Levine takes readers inside her relationship, and how she and her longtime beau deal with finances. Celeb Love: A-Rod Meets Real Housewife of NYC A-Rod and a Housewife? Say it … Read More

A marriage may or may not be a union of love. It is always a union of property. No matter how you conduct your affairs—joint or separate checking accounts; rooms, even homes, of your own—the state regards you as a unit. The day you sign the license, you and your spouse are taxed as one. And if you break up, you become half of one: it divides your wealth in two. Prenuptial agreements can prevent the foregoing, but prenups are not always enforced (and they never supersede child-support laws). Anyway, lots of people find prenups distasteful. Marriage, they … Read More

Men from different lovestages debate whether or not to move in with a girlfriend before marriage. Is it a necessary step to learning a partner's quirks? Does it spell disaster for the relationship? Watch five guys discuss the upsides and downsides to sharing a home with your partner before saying "I do." Their answers might surprise you!