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Republican Sen. Mike Braun is attempting a rather unconvincing cleanup job after telling reporters on Tuesday that the Supreme Court was wrong to strike down state laws banning interracial marriage in its landmark 1967 decision, Loving vs. Virginia. Braun, the junior senator from Indiana, made his comments during a media call in which he argued …

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are going to be first-time parents in a few months, and this will be the first grandchild on both sides of the family (and the first baby in almost 18 years). Jeanne Phillips  We are excited to share this experience with them. However, I have some concerns about after …

Meri and Kody Brown’s relationship seems to be over.  Over the last two seasons of “Sister Wives,” the deterioration of Meri and Kody Brown’s marriage has been a focal point of the series. Now, Meri is revealing that the relationship is “dead.” “My relationship with Meri is — at best — just distant and amicable,” …

Christina Anstead is pressing pause on her marriage.  On Sept. 18, the HGTV star announced on Instagram that she was separating from her husband Ant Anstead after less than two years of marriage. “Ant and I have made the difficult decision to separate,” Christina wrote to her followers. “We are grateful for each other and as …

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my husband for 12 years. He retired from the Army before I met him, and I currently serve, stationed overseas. When we first met, I thought we had an understanding that because he didn’t have to work, he would follow me and my three children wherever the military …

Innovation has driven social change for centuries; the wheel, the steam engine, and the printing press all ushered consequential changes for human civilization. But equally transformative and consequential to our human relationships were the washing machine, the refrigerator and the horse drawn plough. In a new book  “Work Mate Marry Love; How Machines Shape Our …

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by andriano_cz/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Danny M. Lavery is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Danny M. Lavery: Good afternoon, everyone! Let’s chat. Q. Wondering about my wedding: I had a wedding planned for the end of July that my fiancé and …

While flipping stations on the car radio one day, I heard the familiar voice of one of my clients call into a pop psychologist’s program about her marital problem. She explained that her husband had recently retired from the Air Force and that during their 20 year-long marriage, they had spent very little time together, …

(Alla Dreyvitser/The Washington Post/iStock images) When Isabelle found out that her boyfriend had taken a friend grocery-shopping, she was livid. “You did what?” she recalls exclaiming at the time. “In your Mini Cooper?” It’s impossible to be socially distant in a compact car. Oh, and by the way, he’d been to another friend’s place, where …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to sign an executive order allowing couples to get marriage licenses remotely and allowing clerks to perform ceremonies over video, said Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor. “So that’s an avenue people want to go down, it will be available to them,” DeRosa told reporters on Saturday. Following the …