New studies show that while married men live longer, the marriage takes away more than one year women's lifespan. Matrimony stretches husbands' lifespan by 1.7 years, but shrinks an average wife’s lifespan by 1.4 years. This was demonstrated by the results of the study involving 100 000 people across Europe, Independent reports. Full story

Brad Pitt donated $100,000 to the campaign to fight Proposition 8, a ballot initiative. In Prop 8, California Attorney General Jerry Brown proposes the amendment to the California Constitution that would eliminate same-sex marriages. “Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8,” - the actor said in a statement. Full story

More and more gossips are around in the media that Ben Affleck's marriage to his star spouse is going to pieces. Occasional pictures of these celebrities together show that the couple hardly looks happy. What's their problem? Obviously, Ben and Jennifer stopped caring enough for each other. Full story

Scientists have recently discovered that polygamy is part of our human nature. This way we can find the reasons behind the fact that many of us get involved in the so-called love triangles. Sexologists explain this tendency by saying that each of us has three centers of love emotions. Each centre is responsible for, respectively, passion, attachment, and romantic relationships. Hence, this is the reason why any person can have not only one but two or even three objects of affection. Full story

Everybody knows, that young people are in no hurry those days to start a family, they place career first and family nearly the last; and that is yet the best alternative. Sometimes people find their life partners only once they are in their thirties, or even later. Psychologists believe, that such late marriages have bad influence on the health of the partners and their future children as well. Full story

Scientists made a very flat conclusion, which says, that marriage should be a happy one, otherwise it is not needed at all. When a woman experiences hardship in her relationship with the spouse for a long time, the medics say, her health leaves much to be desired. Full story