At a time when more people marry later on in life or stay unmarried, matchmakers, traditionally called nakodo in Japan, have been gaining public attention again lately as the nation's population continues to decline.

As thousands of men are threatened with exposure as users of an extramarital website, Helen Croydon goes undercover to meet them.

There are two types of people in the dating world: those who are coupled and third wheels.

"What those hackers are doing is brilliant. Let the cheaters sweat. They only have themselves to blame if the whole world finds out their dirty little secret."

Fast food giant foots the bill for what is a strong contender for wedding of the year.

The ringing of the fire alarm was followed by a ring of another kind at a Whangarei primary school yesterday, as a firefighter proposed to his teacher sweetheart.

The hackers accessed "customers' secret sexual fantasies," "nude pictures and conversations," "credit card transactions" with real names. They promise to leak it all soon.

Olivia Fane filled in as a secretary for her vascular surgeon husband. She says there's no quicker way to wreck your love life and self-confidence.

We look at some celebrity couples old and new who gave themselves the best possible chance of living in eternal matrimony – at least according to new research.

Was your insanely successful older sibling born to achieve? Is your youngest child pre-programmed to seek the limelight?

A fascinating new analysis of family data suggests that after a certain point, the risk of divorce starts to rise again as you get older.

Ten prison staff have been fired over inappropriate relationships - in some cases sex - with inmates.

Middle-aged couples are more likely to row about money than anything else, a survey shows.

Military life is hard, especially when spouses are deployed to far off places. From experience, Lee Suckling shares the worst things to say to military spouses.

A sociologist at the University of Utah has found the best age to get married if you want to avoid divorce.

What is good flirting? Researchers received - perhaps unsurprisingly - differing responses from men and women.

"My husband recently confessed to a brief affair when our children were small. I'm not sure why I feel so angry, as it's a tiny blip in many years of happiness."

Online, no rules means people can be rude and crude. Bumble is out to do something about all of that.

Go out on Friday night, get a few drinks in and watch the migration of women on to the dance floor. But men are a different story, writes Verity Johnson.

A lovelorn 29-year-old Harvard grad is crowdsourcing his soulmate search, offering $10,000 to anyone who introduces him to a woman he dates for more than six months.

While we share travel photos and life musings with a long list of virtual friends, the average person still only relies on a few people.

The truth is I'm not all that busy, says Matty Litwack, I just prefer being single. Here are a few reasons why.

He spent a night with Kim from Seattle and loved footy and foreign girls. He recorded all his Kiwi adventures in diary but he didn't leave his name.

He believes we should 'keep our options open' and leave our dating profiles up online. He says he's not seeing anyone else, but can't rule it out in the future. What shall I do?

Marriage can boost your health in a number of ways but it appears there is one measure where it lets you down – your waistline.

Newly defined and moulded by technology, here are eight ways in which relationships have morphed in the past decade.

In the wake of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's divorce, we look at five celebrity marriages that have gone the distance

Not feeling it in the bedroom as much any more? Here are ten reasons your mojo might be lacking, and what to do about it.

There is a certain romantic magic about a late night stroll in the summer rain. Arm in arm, heads tilted together, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Kylie Minogue certainly made a sweet couple.