Marriage

Some lawmakers in Mexico City are considering amending marriage laws to allow for an initial two-year marriage term that can be renewed if the couple stays together. If they don’t, they can separate with no official divorce needed.

An overweight husband and a thin wife has been a sitcom staple since Ralph and Alice Kramden on ‘The Honeymooners.’   According to a new study, that type of pairing may also be one of the keys to marital bliss.

Maria Shriver decided to celebrate her independence from Arnold Schwarzenegger this weekend. On Friday, Shriver filed for divorce from the former California governor after 25 years of marriage.

One of the members of Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band is officially off the market! Guitarist Wyatt Springsteen wed Tara Brooks this weekend during an outdoor ceremony in the Tetons.

‘Good Morning America’ reported on a Florida deputy sheriff who found a unique way to propose marriage to his girlfriend — over police radio. Deputy Joseph Bracey proposed to Ashley West, who works as a Brevard County sheriff dispatcher, over a county-wide police channel. “I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?” he asked.

A recent Gallup poll of 1,020 adults shows that, if Americans could only have one child, they’d rather have a boy than a girl According to the poll, published Thursday, 40 percent said they’d want to have a boy, while 28 percent said they’d rather have a girl instead.

For years, traditional wisdom has held that when both halves of a couple works, they spend less time together and are thus less happy in their marriages. A new study, however, seems to disprove that theory.

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian kicked off the weekend with a bit of a surprise. According to the LA Times, the couple were married Friday night before about 40 guests at a private residence in California. Among the guests were Cibrian's two sons, Mason and Jake, from a previous marriage.