The fighting, the constant sarcasm, the dirty looks—all marriages hit turbulence, but when it's your adult children and grandchildren involved, it can be painful to watch. Your heart aches at the thought of your grandchildren being shuffled back and forth between two different households if a

All marriages go through periods of insecurity, changes and challenges. It's how you handle each challenge and face each change that decides whether you save your marriage or let it fail. Marriage is a total commitment to the success of a team over individual accomplishment. You must be able to

While the birth order of both you and your spouse obviously does not determine everything that will happen in your marriage and the problems that you might have, birth order does play an important role in understanding how the two of you work together, how you might learn your difficulties and your

What is wrong with interracial marriages? Absolutely nothing. You may hear people advise against them, and think that it is close-minded, or racist to do such a thing, but the fact is, it is often just advice to make marriage a little easier. The following is a look at the drawbacks to interracial

For the past 12 years, I have written about weddings for The New York Times, and learned one lesson: Love can blindside you. Over and over again, I've interviewed people who kept lists of qualities they were looking for in a spouse—a Wall Street banker, a vegetarian, a skier, a poet, someone who