As Stephen Fry prepares to tie the knot with Elliott Spencer, Patrick Strudwick explains why he believes that the couple's union explodes many of the myths surrounding gay marriage.
Matt Boggs' carefully laid plan to propose to his girlfriend at one of her favourite places in Whangamata nearly sank when his old wave ski started taking on water.
It is a good idea to keep New Year's resolutions about managing relationships quite simple. Here are a few ideas to start off with, from Jill Goldson.
Dealing with a self absorbed person, including work mates and family members, can be tricky territory to navigate, writes Jill Goldson.
Dating apps have been in the news for all the wrong reasons this year, but a new generation of dating app emphasises safety.
A spurned husband in England cut up $10,000 of his wife's clothes before packing them neatly back in the wardrobe.
If we're to be defined for all eternity by the application we searched for most, 2014 was the year of Tinder.
Deborah Hill Cone scavenged from the filter of life and presents us with 30 things she learned in 2014.
Some of Shortland Street's hottest stars have posed for the show's sauciest photo shoot.
Any new singleton, wary of dipping their toe into the murky water of online dating, must surely be even more cautious after two news stories this week highlighting the perils of such behaviour.
Superstar Sir Elton John and David Furnish are to marry Christmas week in a "small and intimate" ceremony, nine years after exchanging vows for their civil partnership.
Why do we feel so down when we get a whiff of rejection? We know in our hearts that we can't like everyone who likes us - just as everyone we happen to like can't like us.
It is after 10 years together that relationships are at their rockiest, a study claims. But hit 35 and you're in for extremely plain sailing.
Bob Jones writes: Female gullibility is essential for the continuation of the species, thus we must take the bad with the good.
Living back home with mum and dad - a sensible move full of focus and strategy - or a bleak admission to having lost your foothold in the climb up the mountain of adult life'?
Is rekindled love a delicate and tender flower - or a releasing of a genie from a bottle with a warning on the label?
If you must smooch in public, here are five rules to follow, says Hannah Betts.
Regrets? The over-50s have had a few ... and one of the most common is marrying the wrong person.
I jumped the gun and got married in early November. It was a simple affair, and while we didn't set out with this specific goal in mind, the total wedding cost came in at just under $1000.
We take a look at the other halves of the world's most famous Angels.
Matt Heath writes: My parents loved manners and as a result I get angry when friends don't place their cutlery with the handles at 5 o'clock pointing toward 11 o'clock.
A bad marriage really could lead to a broken heart, new research looking at how marriage quality affects cardiovascular health suggests.
Here are five pieces of advice for the somewhat preposterous long-distance couple, and here are the time-tested, pearls of wisdom we found
Academics think that kissing helps partners share bacteria, shoring up their immune systems and enabling them to better fight disease.
The sexual revolution has gone too far, according to a founding figure of the Swinging Sixties who says the Pill means sex is no longer about love for young girls.
A British-born Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilisation fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor.
The prediction of recreational-only sex by 2050 shows up the impossible choices young women have to make.
Chinese programmer was so sick of being single that he bought 99 iPhone 6s to propose to his girlfriend. It didn't end well.
When Jamie and Louis, both transsexual, decided to marry, they also chose to allow TV cameras to record the often rocky run-up to the big day. They tell Kate Hilpern why they did it.