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.

"Human rights is my passion," says Mary Brennan, a Wellington dominatrix and escort agency owner. "That's why I'm in the sex industry."

Want to write a string of best-sellers and spark endless romantic box-office hits? Helen O’Hara talks to the master, Nicholas Sparks.

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.

Joanna Mathers looks at the reasons high-profile wives choose to stand by their man, even when they've strayed.

Unlike husbands, canines aren't moody and depressingly downbeat; unlike wives, they don't want to change you. No wonder we put them first, says Judith Woods.

There was a brief time in my life when a wedding invitation dropping onto the mat filled me with delight. But now? Well, now people have gone insane.

Rihanna's pals don't like her boyfriend.

Charlize Theron reportedly "won't talk" to Sean Penn.

Pope Francis says that it may be acceptable, or even "morally necessary", for married couples to split up if they are at war with each other.

A condom that changes colour when it comes in to contact with sexually transmitted infections (STI) like chlamydia and herpes has been invented by teenagers.

A Kapiti couple in their 90s who were married for 67 years died within two hours of one another in the same rest-home room.

Elizabeth Wurtzel reveals how she has finally found peace with a husband and is even planning to start a family.

It's said to cure women's low libido by making sex more pleasurable. But with fears over side-effects, many doctors are sceptical.

Gender still matters in a lot of our daily lives, but it doesn't have to. Lee Suckling shares five gender-based peculiarities of modern society that can be questioned.

Too scared to dump your lover? Now there's an app for that.