I remember when I first became engaged, on the frontier, everyone had an opinion. My mother-in-law wasn’t thrilled. I think she wanted her son to marry a Byzantine Carmelite nun, but that wasn’t in ...

Today’s Wall Street Journal Personal Journal section leads with an article by Elizabeth Bernstein posing the question “How Happy Is Your Marriage?” That question troubles me. There is something right ...

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For people who think they want to get married, they need to ask themselves if they have a realistic picture of what it is all about. Whether it's how they picture themselves years from now, the ...

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