Thousands of happy couples get engaged in New York's Times Square, but New Zealander Shaun Kavanagh's surprise proposal to his girlfriend is probably among the sweetest.

Being a supportive wife is not all about doing the housework and cooking. It's also about dealing with your husband's stress.

Weddings are supposed to be the happiest day of your life - try telling that to the hundreds of people who make ACC claims for injuries at ceremonies.

On the back of the release of his new book, The Modern Family Survival Guide, Latta sits down with Life & Style Editor Nicky Park to talk about understanding blended families and doing your best to raise a happy family.

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Some say they are attracted to a person's looks, others say it is more about personality - but everyone is subconsciously swayed by smell, according to new research.

Heterosexual men secretly hate it when the woman they love succeeds. And a woman's success makes a man less interested in their relationship.

As part of my supportive wife challenge, I have been working on not being a bitch. Most women possess the ability to bitch in various strengths.

If "middle class" is an insult then it must be an insult of last resort. It's a nebulous, one-size-fits-all mild term of abuse used by lazy people without the imagination...

In honour of Father’s Day, Danielle Wright talks to Auckland dads sharing their passions with their children.

Charl Laubscher and Rebecca Kamm bring two smart, savvy sides to the story. This week, it's a study about what men and women REALLY want.

Friends of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones hope the Hollywood stars can still save their marriage.

Modern break-ups are, it would appear, a lot more complicated than those of past generations.

An unusual love story: They look like any other happy couple – but each is going through gender reassignment.

Women wearing red or pink are about three times more likely to be at peak fertility than those wearing other colours, researchers reveal.

Simon Cowell's pregnant lover Lauren Silverman has settled her messy divorce.

The number of marriage forms downloaded reached 516 on Monday, when the new documents became available allowing same-sex couples to wed.

For those aged 30 to 34, women outnumber men by 7270, while for the 35 to 39s, the gap widens to more than 12,000.

Narrowing your dating pool down to microscopic proportions is big business now. Niche dating websites are springing up left, right and centre.

New Zealanders have become less discriminatory, are better prepared for disasters, and are more conscious of environmental issues such as recycling, a new survey shows.

Most Kiwis say they live a contented life despite barely half of them saying they have enough or more than enough money to pay the bills.

There are a few serial posters that are ruining Facebook. You know the ones, the friends who pop up on your feed while your scrolling through and make you growl.

Five Kiwi couples tied the knot at more than 12,000 metres in the air this week - setting the record for the world's highest altitude wedding on an aeroplane.

Andrew Silverman feels "deeply betrayed" by Simon Cowell.