Horsing around... Melanie and Bruce Ponting, who met on a dating website, with their twin sons, Lachlan (left) and Joshua. Photo: Adam Hollingworth. If it wasn't for a suspicious spouse, Melanie Ponting may never have met her husband Bruce. Mrs Ponting, 34, joined rsvp.com.au to spy on her friend's husband. A neighbour ... Read More

ALICIA WOOD - Australia. We are a nation of philanderers. Two new dating websites have confirmed our infidelity. More than 280,000 people - 36 per cent of them women - have signed up to ashleymadison.com since it was launched here three weeks ago. Along with rival gleeden.com, it follows the basic structure of most ... Read More

Remember Julie off the Love Boat? You know, the sassy ‘fun’ co-ordinator who connected passengers, made everyone feel special, and helped Gopher, Doc, Isaac and Captain Stubing? I’ve come across a few Julies in my time - start-up entrepreneurs who excel at networking and making others feel special, without the Love ... Read More

Fiona Macrae Emotional intelligence key to a good sex life for woman ... A new study shows reveals those most in touch with their feelings have twice as many orgasms as inhibited sorts. BEAUTY may bag you a man - but brains will bring you more fun in the bedroom. Women blessed with ... Read More

The Museum of Broken Relationships, which is centered in Zagreb, Croatia, is currently on tour in a shopping mall in Istanbul. By SEBNEM ARSU. ISTANBUL — Among the many curious objects on display at a new exhibition in an upscale shopping mall here is an old Nokia cellphone with a rugged ... Read More

By ERIC V. COPAGE IT’S Valentine’s Day, and the pressure is on for men everywhere to step up their game— and not just the single ones. Those who are married or in long-term relationships are advised to revisit and refresh many of the skills they once used on the dating scene. One ... Read More

By AMY FINNERTY Lori Gottlieb offers herself up as Exhibit A — that’s A for “Alone” — in this unsparing exploration of the contemporary mating scene. Part cautionary memoir, part field study, her account of her own stalled search for a husband is honest and darkly comic. While many books about relationships ... Read More

DATING COACH Lori Gottlieb (wearing necklace), the author of a book with relationship advice, at a Borders bookstore in Manhattan. By JOANNE KAUFMAN. “Would you like bottled water or tap?” asked the waiter as Lori Gottlieb and her friends settled into a booth at the Upper East Side restaurant Rouge Tomate ... Read More

By NATASHA SINGER IF finding true love were an exact science, we wouldn’t need matchmakers, singles bars or, of course, online dating services. Like job seekers who take the Myers-Briggs personality test to help steer them to suitable professions, we’d simply take a relationship test, whose results would identify our most compatible ... Read More

Daniel Cope at “country night” at the Deep End, a bar in Chapel Hill, N.C., with, from left, Katie Gane, Bekah Justus, Tucker Petty, Annie Cherry, Taylor Walters and Kelly Lynch. ANOTHER ladies’ night, not by choice. After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group ... Read More