By Sari Harrar and Rita DeMaria, Ph.D.

The Reality of Married Lovemaking

When writer Miriam Arond and her husband, psychiatrist Samuel L. Pauker, M.D., surveyed hundreds of newlywed couples across the nation, they discovered that 85 percent had made love before tying the knot, yet the frequency and quality of unmarried sex had little to do with the reality of married lovemaking. Nearly half said that after marriage, they didn't have sex as often as they'd like; 20 percent of new wives reported low sexual desire. For a fourth of the wives, sex meant painful intercourse or elusive orgasms, while 1 in … Read More

Tucks of skin trickled out from a pink, tropical bikini top. My half-naked body glared back at me from the unforgiving gleam of a fitting room mirror as I modeled a two-piece suit, gripped to the grooves of my body.

It was the day every woman dreads, the day we wish we hadn't eaten that cheesecake the night before, the day we regret skipping last week's workouts, the day we subject our naked bodies to bright lights and full-length mirrors. It was bathing suit shopping day. Staring perplexed at my reflection, I tugged at the corners of bikini number twelve. Eleven … Read More

Mary, from TMI Weekly, catches up with her two friends who got married in their 20's. What's married life like at an early age? We get the scoop on the difficulties and rewards of marriage.

Everyone knows that planning a wedding can be a nightmare... especially when dealing with THIS couple. Here's the first episode in the hilarious web series "Road To The Altar".

The ring is a powerful item. It has no beginning and no end. It's usually made of metal and it says a lot more about a person than any other jewelry (except for, perhaps, a crown).

Men have been known to order their own fingers be removed rather than sacrifice their rings. Men tiny in stature but large in heart have marched to the end of the (Middle) Earth for the sake of a ring. And men have even been known to take off their wedding rings lest they sully it by hitting on women with it upon their fingers*.

But a … Read More

Love U reveals a handful of important and useful tips for newlyweds.

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Wedding season has officially hit, and TV networks are making sure to give viewers their fill of wedding hijinks, bridal drama, and newlywed bliss. Here's a list of just a few of the wedding-themed shows TV has to offer.

Here Come The Newlyweds (ABC, Mondays 10pm EST)

Here Come The Newlyweds has newly married couples compete against other just-married couples for a large cash prize (last season’s winners won more than $400,000). The couples compete in physical challenges as well as "how well do you know each other" trivia contests in a throwback to the original newlywed show, The … Read More

Spring is here and as summer approaches, we officially enter wedding season. We'll watch couples exchange vows and cut a rug on the dance floor before taking off on their honeymoons and, supposedly, years of wedded bliss.However, even newlywed couples, who glow so brightly on their wedding days, are cheating on their spouses not too long after they say, "I do." According to a study at the University of Washington Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, men and women admitted to cheating at a rate of 20 and 15 percent respectively, which is higher than 15 … Read More

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's second wedding occurred this past weekend in Costa Rica. While the first nuptials between the bride and groom was not much of a defensive matchup (as in, there was no violence), the second matchup (the couple's second wedding ceremony) ended in a shootout. The bodyguards and security that were hired to keep the paparazzi off the property at first chased two trespassers away before turning to the always reliable alternative of shooting at them.

Were it not for four single girls and one big city, millions of die hard Sex and the City fans would have been left wondering why men do the things they do and why love is never as simple as it seems. Fortunately we were all blessed with six blissful years of witty narration as Carrie & Co. navigated their way around relationships Big and small. Now that the fashionable foursome are mostly married, we suspect the next SATC sequel will be filled with even more questions about men, such as why Read More