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Do you watch Game of Thrones on HBO? If you thought Arya would be a good name for a girl, the name of one of the main characters, you might light to know that it had the biggest jump in popularity within the top 500 names. However, it didn't crack the top 10. 

According to Social Security data, here were the top 10…

You may have noticed a change to the Hitched website this week. In a continued effort to provide you with the best marriage information on the internet—and to keep it free—we have partnered with Google to run microsurveys within their Google Consumer Surveys program as a key to unlock access to all…

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association from Princeton University found that married women who were not divorced nor widowhood were linked with fewer cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure. Unfortunately, the same didn't hold true for young men. Guys who married younger were more likely to have warning…

Our photographer, John Dalog, went to the 2012 Comic Con to find couples partaking in the festivities. Here's who he ran into: 

Name: Gerardo Mora,

Name: Ashley Mora

Married: 4 years

Dressed up as? Steampunk

How long did it take to make your costumes? 6 months

What were you most excited to see at Comic-Con? The Hobbit…

Dr. Trina Read has been busy. In a recent appearance on the Marilyn Denis Show, Dr. Read discusses how women, in particular, can cope with an insecure body image. In her appearance she makes a wonderfully profound statement that should be heard, she says, "Changing our body image is not about changing our body, it's about falling in love with the body we have." Dr. Read offers other fantastic advice in this segment.…

If you've spent enough time on Facebook or other social networks, you've likely come across an old flame. This brings about a lot of questions, starting with the big one of whether or not you should "friend" them. Moving beyond that includes actually engaging in conversation. What about engaging with others in conversation? How far can those conversations get before they become inappropriate? Sexologist, Dr. Trina Read, joined the crew of Breakfast Television Calgary to discuss this topic.…

New research suggests that physical punishment as a form of discipline in kids may increase the risk of mental disorders in adulthood from mood and anxiety disorders to drug and alcohol abuse. The study lead by Tracie Afifi, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Canada, looked at data…

When we think about saving money, we often think about slowing down on the lattes or clipping coupons. The good folks at FrugalDad have quantified the savings of a loving relationship through various research and studies. They put together the great infographic below, which illustrates the benefits of a loving relationship. Enjoy! 

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Be safe this weekend! A new report by the National Coalition for Safer Roads found that more than 2.3 million drivers in 18 states ran a red light last year, and the number of scofflaws was more than 27% higher on Memorial Day weekend than on an average non-holiday weekend. The reason, according to this …

We got an e-mail the other day from Red Varden Studios asking if we could help spread the word about a casting search for, "This generation’s wilder, more entertaining Brady Bunch." We are not affiliated with this company, we are merely passing along information. With that said, if you're…

If you and your spouse are looking for something to do this summer (perhaps career change, maybe a taking a passionate hobby more seriously, or reach a larger customer base online for your personal business), then we may have found an opportunity for you. We were contacted by Frank Chindamo, Adjunct Professor from the School of Cinematic Arts at USC who informed us that the university is now offering a summer class…

Renowned marriage expert, Dr. Terri Orbuch, appears on the Fox morning show in Detroit to offer tips for couples on juggling the often-argued subject of money and marriage. Check it out.

Love and Money:…

The $656 million Mega Millions prize is the largest in history, and Illinois couple Merle and Patricia Butler won a third of the pot ($158 million), splitting with other unknown winners located in Kansas and Maryland. Here is a video of Merle retelling the story of finding out they won and what they did immediately after—his wife giggled for about four hours. What would you do?

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It's so often portrayed that married sex is boring and that single sex is so much better. Well, Esquire magazine has just released their Sex issue, which includes a survey conducted by Beta Research Corporation of 522 male internet-connected respondents between the ages of 21 and 59. Here are some of the published results pertaining to…

Whenever a company unveils a survey or study that supports their position and/or industry we have to take it with a grain of salt. Saying that, however, we aren't surprised to see the numbers out of this survey of 15,000 users of MocoSpace, a social gaming site. Perhaps the biggest surprise was not that people were playing mobile games, but where. The number one…

Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University estimates that as many as 15% of women have the ability to experience orgasm during exercise, according to a statement made to Time magazine. She is the lead author of on online survey that gathered data on women ages 18 to 63 over five weeks. The information…

We're really excited to announce that co-founder and editor-in-chief, Steve Cooper, has just launched a new weekly column for Forbes.com that will discuss the business lessons learned from running Hitched. You can "Follow" Steve to get alerted whenever a new column is posted. His first post is a short introduction on the launch of Hitched and more importantly,…

Researchers out of Dartmouth Medical School studied 99 men who were all clients at fertility clinics. Each filled out a questionnaire listing what they ate and found that saturated fats, the stuff in meat and dairy foods, was associated with lower sperm counts. In fact, the men in the study who consumed the most saturated fat had 35 percent fewer sperm than…

Does the honeymoon period last a month? A year? Five years? In short, it depends. In fact, Kira Birditt, an assistant research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, found that although the conventional wisdom is that all marriages decline in happiness over time, that's not…

The research has been piling up that when you're in love, the chemicals in your body change. A new study published in Psychoneuroendocrinology found that higher levels of oxytocin, a chemical given many names including the "love hormone," were found in more emotionally responsive couples and could even predict which couples would stay together longer. One caveat to…