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Byline: Eric V. Copage When I emerge from an art gallery or a museum, the world around me looks different. Leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art late one afternoon, the [...]

When I emerge from an art gallery or a museum, the world around me looks different. Leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art late one afternoon, the color of the sunlight [...]

Five couples who speak different languages share how they communicate affection with each other. ''How's your French coming along?'' The familiar voice, accompanied by a light tap on my shoulder, [...]

Are you in an intercultural/multilingual relationship? We’d like to know which language you use to express affection toward your partner, and why. Are you and your partner from different countries, [...]

Dr. Femi Kuti and Dr. Ugochi Nwosu met in the Bay Area but soon entered a relationship that stretched from Lagos, Nigeria, to the United States. Dr. Oluwafemi Akinwale Kuti [...]

Lisa Jenkins and Vincent Brown first met at choir practice in 1993. What followed was a nearly 30-year journey through life and love that ended, eventually, in a reunion. Recalling [...]

Matei Varga, a concert pianist, met Missi Gibbs, an arts enthusiast four decades his senior, while looking for an apartment. In time, they went from roommates to something more romantic. [...]

Dr. Dana Cohen and Henry Caplan were instantly attracted to each other during an improv course in 2011. But their decision to marry at a Las Vegas chapel was the [...]

Byline: Eric V. Copage A writer's Easter pilgrimage, from Jordan to Jamaica, to find a multiethnic image of Christ. Close your eyes and imagine that Jesus is in front of [...]

Shifts in politics, performance and protest have all altered our culture in a way not seen in years. I grew up in Southern California neighborhoods that were overwhelmingly white -- [...]

I must have been no older than 6. I was in church in my hometown, Los Angeles. Parishioners fanned themselves to stay cool in the packed, stuffy room. On one [...]

Common sense suggests that asking the right questions before getting married can make for a better union, but rarely is the other side of the coin examined. That could be [...]

The problem with Hollywood's romantic comedies, Ethan Nichtern explained during a talk in Manhattan on meditation and desire, is that they end just as the relationship is really getting started. [...]

When they married in August 2005, Manoush Zomorodi was a television reporter for the British Broadcasting Company and her husband, Josh Robin, a reporter for the now-defunct New York City [...]

The season was to be the ''Summer of Anna.'' So proclaimed Anna Sale, a New York City-based radio reporter, in 2011. ''One of the rules of the Summer of Anna [...]

Since Marc Murphy and Pamela Schein Murphy were married in December 2002, when they were the subject of a Vows column, Mr. Murphy has become a brand. He is a [...]

An article Tuesday in The New York Times on a proposal announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to renovate La Guardia Airport drew [...]

Margie Goldsmith is known for her firecracker energy and a keen sense of adventure. One friend recalled that the lithe Ms. Goldsmith entered a triathlon in Cuba so that she [...]

Miguel Rodriguez's new interview attire -- shiny black shoes; dapper white, blue and black dress shirts; three handkerchiefs; and three regimental-striped ties -- led not to a position on Wall [...]

Last year, when Daniel Knobler decided to propose to Carrie Crowell, a granddaughter of Johnny Cash, he said he ''knew from the get-go'' that he wanted the music to be [...]

When Shaun Cherewich, a retired high school teacher and coach, says he's old-fashioned, he's not talking raccoon coats and jitterbugging. He's talking about going way back -- all the way [...]

Paula Riezenman offers some lessons learned about marriage from her more than 14 years with Mike Riezenman, who died in January. WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS OF MARRIAGE LATER [...]

Mike Riezenman had been making frequent stays in hospitals and nursing homes, sometimes for months at a time, for the last four and a half years. But that did not [...]

Maureen Brown can tell stories about kittens. Happy stories, sad stories, funny stories. Ms. Brown, a disabled 61-year-old, was lying in bed in her Upper West Side apartment, flipping through [...]

One October evening last year, on an unlit rural road in upstate New York, Joshua Perry and four of his friends were in an S.U.V. on their way to visit [...]

Sitting in the living room of her two-bedroom apartment in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx, Kathleen Hicks, a former messenger service dispatcher, turned up her right wrist. The [...]

Even before they were married in 1999, Terry Williams and Patrick Cashin had an understanding about who would be their future children's primary caretaker. ''When we were dating, we always [...]

Cory Zacker and Stephen Feldman met online when ''America Online was the Internet,'' said Mr. Feldman, now 53. Reflecting on their first encounter, in an AOL chat room for 30-somethings [...]

Shortly before Miho Walsh and Roy Prieb were married in early in 2008 they kicked their video game habit, which was composed mainly of World of Warcraft. Actually, it was [...]

As the water surged through the basement apartment of a Coney Island town house during Hurricane Sandy, Jeffrey Cowen, a cherubic and chatty sort, tried to calm down the two [...]

It was February 2003, and Fabienne Kirk was waiting for a friend at a restaurant on West 23rd Street in Manhattan. ''I went to stand up to see if my [...]

It was the summer before high school, and Christopher Gavagan, then 13, was preparing to leave the safe familiarity of the friends he had known during his boyhood. With a [...]

For years, Phillip Johnson was caught in what seemed like an endless trench of bad luck. He was fired from a job, experienced intensifying psychological problems, lost his apartment and [...]

WISH UPON A WEDDING, a nonprofit organization that provides free weddings for couples in which one partner is terminally ill (or both), was started in 2010 by Liz Guthrie, a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAT the very beginning, Angela Sclafani thought the biggest problems she might face in her developing romance with Michael Olexa were the complications that inevitably arise from dating someone [...]

THINKING about their encounter at a SoHo bar, where he and a virtual stranger sipped draft beer from a single glass, Ben Umanov said it was a surprisingly intimate way [...]

KAREN MEDINA thought Erik Merizalde was a wonderful boyfriend. The young man was polite and caring to the point of being chivalrous, and when he picked her up at her [...]

KELLIE CICCONI has always been a picky eater. Ms. Cicconi, a doctoral student in veterinary biomedicine at Cornell, recalled that as a child her mother put a chart on the [...]

MORE than a hundred readers posted responses to last Sunday's pre-Valentine's DayField Notes column (''Love You! Now, the Difficult Stuff ...''), in which psychologists and other marriage experts suggested questions [...]

AS Valentine's Day nears -- always prime time for engagements -- marriage experts advise asking some unromantic questions after posing the big romantic one.Surprisingly few newly engaged couples seem to [...]

In the Cordis family, the two daughters, Judy, 20, and Christina, 19, do most of the talking. Their mother, Patricia Cordis, 53, keeps a silence that masks a mountain of [...]