Jun 7th, 2005 · Listener Letters: Debt Reduction, Saving Marriages June 7, 2005 · Alex Chadwick discusses some listener questions with Day to Day personal finance contributor Michele Singletary. This week's topics include debt reduction and how to discuss debt before it can jeopardize your marriage.
Jun 2nd, 2005 · Social historian Stephanie Coontz's new book is Marriage, a History: from Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage. The historical review of wedlock reveals an institution that has adapted over centuries -- but faces new crises today.
May 4th, 2005 · A polygamist sect known as the FLDS is building a new settlement in the rural Texas town of Eldorado. Locals are weighing their distrust of plural marriage and other sect practices with the powerful belief that people who move to West Texas should be free to live as they please.
Apr 21st, 2005 · Long deployments make marriage especially difficult for military couples. In an effort to reverse the high divorce rate in the armed services, the Army has created a marriage-counseling program that teaches military couples basic relationship skills.
Apr 10th, 2005 · Prince Charles delayed his marriage ceremony one day in order to attend to funeral of Pope John Paul II. The delay has prompted a number of trinket collectors to purchase memorabilia with the wrong wedding date printed on it.
Feb 24th, 2005 · Uli Derickson, a flight attendant on the hijacked TWA Flight 847 in 1985, died last week at age 60. Melissa Block talks with Arthur Toga, who was a passenger on the flight and recalls that one of the hijackers had proposed marriage to Derickson.
Feb 4th, 2005 · German Film Tells Immigrant Love Story February 4, 2005 · Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new German film Head-On about a marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks. It won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival
Jan 26th, 2005 · Award-winning filmmaker William Greaves talks with NPR's Tony Cox about the revival of his film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm in it's new form, Take 2 1/2. The ever-evolving film, began in 1968, follows the lives of a couple with a troubled marriage. The movie is screening at the Sundance Film Festival.