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theatlantic.com > books > 2026 > 02 > gisele-pelicot-hymn-to-life-memoir > 686045

An Extraordinary Account of a Dangerous Marriage

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (204+ words) Gis'le Pelicot's memoir is an astonishingly honest look at her life with a man who did the unthinkable. One afternoon in 2024, when her session in court had ended unusually early, Gis'le Pelicot went to the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras, a…...

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theatlantic.com > newsletters > 2026 > 02 > enduring-assumption-about-love > 686005

An Enduring Assumption About Love

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (252+ words) Focusing only on specific traits or habits misses the point of dating. For as long as people have been looking for love, many have been convinced that they know exactly what it looks like. We might talk about having a…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > 2026 > 01 > trump-greenland-europe-nato > 685720

The Great Divorce

4+ week, 21+ min ago  (226+ words) The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first'and now, it might be coming apart. Initially it was a rescue, and then a romance. But then Sam seemed to undergo a personality change. He became…...

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theatlantic.com > culture > 2025 > 11 > saturday-night-live-missing-wives-perfect-neighbor-parody > 684798

To Catch a Clueless Hubby

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (40+ words) An SNL sketch pitched the next big true-crime hit: what happens when men are left to fend for themselves. An SNL sketch pitched the next big true-crime hit: what happens when men are left to fend for themselves....

The Atlantic
theatlantic.com > newsletters > archive > 2025 > 10 > wedding-sprawl-guests-bridesmaids > 684704

How Wedding Sprawl Affects the Guests

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (68+ words) In striving to keep up with societal expectations, couples can end up putting financial strain on others. By Annie Joy Williams Why are we making those we love most suffer for our weddings? The Fake Poor Bride Confessions of a…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > archive > 2025 > 10 > bridesmaid-inflation-weddings-brides-finances > 684668

Free the Bride Tribe

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (708+ words) No one wants to spend $2,000 on your bachelorette trip to Nashville. There comes a time in every young woman's life when she's faced with a question that tests the limits of her love. Caught up in the euphoria of the…...

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theatlantic.com > family > 2025 > 10 > mom-happiness-survey-data > 684636

The Rich-Mom, Poor-Mom Happiness Fallacy

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (111+ words) Where commentary on parental satisfaction goes wrong Money is supposed to make life easier. But whether it makes life easier for parents has become a surprisingly contentious question. That is, even the Pew study contradicted the claims people were making…...

The Atlantic
theatlantic.com > culture > archive > 2025 > 09 > dear-james-friend-love-situationship > 684324

Dear James: Is This Situationship Doomed?

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (421+ words) We were friends, then more than friends. Now she's backpedaling'and I'm confused. Editor's Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers' questions. Tell him about your lifelong…...

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theatlantic.com > ideas > archive > 2025 > 09 > marriage-motherhood-happiness-children > 684064

The Marriage Effect

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (232+ words) A common narrative has it that commitment and motherhood make women unhappy. New data suggest the opposite is true. But are married mothers actually less happy than single women without children? That's one of the questions that, along with my…...

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theatlantic.com > culture > archive > 2025 > 08 > splitsville-movie-romance-non-monogamy > 684031

The Existential Terror of Monogamy

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (82+ words) The first scene of the new movie Splitsville starts with a hand job and ends with a car crash. Carey and Ashley (played by Kyle Marvin and Adria Arjona, respectively), who have been married for a ... Splitsville understands why modern…...