The State of Your Unions

  • Runaway bride

    It's not that I didn't want to get married. I just wanted to make sure that I could take a break from the institution whenever I needed to.
    By Jennifer Armstrong December 20, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome rocked my world. Too bad he also slapped my face and passed out. More tales from the front lines of marriage.
    March 3, 2004

  • Here come the brides

    After 25 years together -- including children, mortgages, intimacy and boredom --- Kay and I stood for six hours in the San Francisco rain to become mundane and unspecial. To be married.
    By Carol Adair February 24, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Religious differences, debilitating illnesses, runaway brides who stop running: More tales from the front lines of marriage.
    February 18, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Straying, sexual dysfunction, traumatic vasectomies and other tales from the front lines of marriage.
    February 4, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Dealing with a life-threatening illness, resisting the urge to call off the wedding, searching for the desire to have children, and other tales from the front lines of marriage.
    January 28, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Coming to terms with racist family members, dealing with the fact that you're the "other" woman, and other tales from the frontlines of marriage.
    January 21, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Salon's female readers tell tales of extramarital temptation, emotional and physical abuse, and cowboy dreams that went awry.
    January 14, 2004

  • Mix and match

    Why am I a strong believer in intermarriage? Because too much Jewish angst, WASPY stoicism or Catholic repression in one household isn't healthy.
    By Abby Ellin January 13, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Salon's male readers weigh in on their marriages with revealing tales of broken hearts, cheating, cheating and more cheating.
    January 6, 2004

  • The state of your unions

    Salon's readers share their tales of newlywed angst, post-divorce shock and bridesmaid blues.
    December 17, 2003

  • Black, white and pink all over

    More than a year after the New York Times printed its first same-sex wedding announcement, gay couples debate the need to declare their love in the most public way possible.
    By Christopher Farah December 12, 2003

  • The state of your unions

    Salon readers write about love and marriage, heartache and divorce -- fighting over spatulas, compromising on a cat, and surviving adultery.
    December 10, 2003

  • The state of your unions

    Salon readers share stories of their marriages -- first times, second tries and never agains.
    December 3, 2003

  • Confessions of a virgin marriage

    I loved and was attracted to my husband, but I didn't want to have sex with him.
    By Beth Heaton November 20, 2003

  • The state of your unions

    Salon readers react to the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and share their dreams of walking down the aisle with their same-sex partners.
    November 19, 2003

  • "If we haven't found anyone else by 40, let's get hitched!"

    Are "marriage pacts" a mature, open-eyed approach to love -- or the ultimate in cowardly bet-hedging?
    By Curtis Sittenfeld November 18, 2003

  • "Her Husband"

    Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly.
    By Kamy Wicoff November 14, 2003

  • The state of your unions

    Salon readers share tales of ugly divorces, same-sex relationships, and love born from tragedy.
    November 12, 2003

  • Education of a call girl

    What I learned about marriage while working as a Manhattan prostitute.
    By Tracy Quan November 7, 2003

  • The state of your unions

    Salon readers share secrets for marital longevity. Hint: Staying faithful, and having nothing in common, help a lot.
    November 5, 2003

  • Love letters

    The author of "A Venetian Affair" says we can learn much from the story of 18th century passion between his ancestor and the woman he wasn't allowed to marry.
    By Karen Croft November 4, 2003

  • The wedding boyfriend

    It's a peculiar phenomenon. You hook up with someone at the rehearsal dinner and by Sunday brunch you've enacted all of the stages of courtship -- speeded up.
    By Curtis Sittenfeld November 4, 2003

  • Hey, pal, I said I wanted friggin' fuchsias!

    You thought only brides obsessed about flowers, caterers and invitations? Wake up and smell the floral centerpieces on the latest Web craze: Grooms' blogs.
    By Rebecca Traister October 30, 2003

  • The state of your unions

    Salon readers share wrenching tales of divorce, infidelity -- and second chances.
    October 30, 2003
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