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.

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

A leading body language expert says Colin Craig's press conference alongside his wife, Helen, featured "unnatural smiling" and a level of guilt and fear.

The app allows women to fill in anonymously an online survey on former boyfriends and male acquaintances on Facebook.

If you’ve given up hope of dating the man or woman of your dreams, then don’t despair – scientists may have come up with a solution.

Scientists are close to developing a vaccine to prevent against chlamydia.

German eBay user der.juli has literally cut all his possessions in half to spite his ex-wife of 12 years.

What happens if one person wants to get married and the other does not? Relationship expert Jill Goldson shares her advice.

A group of Aucklanders are rebelling from a hook-up oriented dating app culture and injecting some wholesomeness back into modern romance.

Here are five things that bug women and men the most when messaging with a potential love interest, according to research.

Life and Style columnist Lee Suckling tackles your modern etiquette and ethical predicaments, one reader-submitted query at a time.

In response to the trend for 'single-boasting', Angela Epstein controversially argues that she still thinks they're missing out.

Mother who who disappeared with her three-year-old son after losing a custody battle has handed herself into the police claiming she has "no regrets".