There are so many things that can damage your relationship over time: his friends; his personality; his weird trousers that show too much ankle. And now there's one more!

Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes joined forces recently and polled 1168 women to find out the answer to this pressing question.

Tawera Nikau hopes that one day his relationship with his eldest daughter will return to a loving place.

Auckland will put on VIP treatment for one of the first gay marriages in NZ - officials are even donating use of The Cloud for the reception.

It's now six weeks since I began my year-long challenge to be a supportive wife, spending more time cooking, cleaning and caring for the man in my life.

Nigella Lawson has shown the clearest sign yet that the TV chef’s marriage split may be permanent, by sending a removal team into the marital home.

Returning from World War 2, Jack Bremner missed his wife Helen's 21st birthday because he was out with his army buddies, but after 70 years of marriage she has managed to reel in her soldier.

It's interesting to Rebecca Kamm that casual sex at university has become an area of research, positioned almost solely as something that's harmful to young women.

Kanye West is happy to live with Kim Kardashian's family.

What this story confronts us with is the destruction of the widely held idea that domestic violence is the dirty problem of the underclasses, writes Selina Trigg.

Diners who only watched as Nigella Lawson was assaulted were probably influenced by the "bystander effect" - and it's at play daily in NZ.

Police are investigating photos appearing to show celebrity chef Nigella Lawson being choked by her husband during a row at a London restaurant.

Sam Judd blames the breakup of the community unit for many of the social and environmental problems of today and highlights how some visionaries are bringing them back.

By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I will have ended it, I'll have popped my clogs, cashed in my chips. That's right, I have deleted my Facebook account.

A Dutch company called Emotional Brain claims early trials of a new drug, Lybrido, show promise for women in the treatment of loss of sexual desire and that "pink Viagra" could be on the market as early as 2016.

I am gradually, but remorselessly, being pushed out of the marital bedroom. The presence of six cats, four of them so small as to be easily squashed by a clumsy male foot, is only the start of it.

Have you ever wanted to lock lips with someone on the internet? Burberry has teamed up with Google to create world-first technology allowing people to pash in cyberspace.

An 87-year-old man has been charged $974 by a lonely hearts agency for the names of up to six women he could call for possible romance.

Jane Lynch and her wife are divorcing.

Up to 12 per cent of women could be allergic to semen - some so severely that exposure could cause anaphylactic shock, a leading expert has claimed.

In the second of a multi-part series on male feminism, Rebecca asks: what makes a man a feminist?

From divorce rates to the 'man shortage', there's little about love that can't be explained by market values, according to one economist.

He showers her with attention and pays for two personal maids to provide 24-hour care for her at his mansion in Paris. Now Karl Lagerfeld has claimed that he would marry his pet cat if he could.

Finding a lover online is more likely to lead to a happier and longer marriage than getting together through more traditional means, a study has found.

The Diary asked some famous Kiwi men from Dan Carter to Dominic Bowden to share their thoughts about the opposite sex.

The Diary asks some famous New Zealanders to share their experiences and their thoughts about affairs of the heart.