Relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle cuts through the fluff with her relationship advice in TODAY.com's "30-second therapist" series. This week, one reader asks about dealing with a boyfriend who just disappeared and another asks about re-entering the dating world after realizing she is a lesbian.

Relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle cuts through the fluff with her relationship advice in TODAY.com's "30-second therapist" series. This week, one reader asks why women always break up with him and another wonders how to get in the dating game after a 15-year hiatus.

It’s easy to get distracted by the daily tasks of managing your family, but you can still bring the romance back into your relationship. Psychologists Elizabeth Lombardo and Jeff Gardere suggest steps you can take to capture that intimacy you felt when your love was new. (TODAY)

Yup, the song is right: New research has suggested that when ladies wear red, it signals "sexual intent" to men. It was also judged to be the most attractive color, followed by blue white and green.

Relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle cuts through the fluff with her relationship advice in TODAY.com's "30-second therapist" series. This week, one reader wants to know why men she chooses never stick around and another whose sex life has tanked since she got a job.

Which would you give up for a year: sex or your favorite food? Would you date a vegetarian? TODAY.com has partnered with Match.com and created a survey to help us get the dish on food and dating! Here’s your chance to share the juicy morsels of your food-related turn-ons and turn-offs.

TODAY contributor Dr. Gail Saltz has advice on how to maintain harmony in your relationship by dealing with everything from a partner who doesn’t pay attention to one who’s a control freak. (TODAY)

TODAY financial editor Jean Chatzky is armed with money rules to keep the peace in your relationship, including living below your means and maintaining some financial independence. (TODAY)

Relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle cuts through the fluff with her relationship advice in TODAY.com's "30-second therapist" series. This week, one reader asks why her boyfriend is not giving her attention, while another wants to know if lack of sex means it's acceptable to cheat.

Relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle cuts through the fluff with her relationship advice in TODAY.com's "30-second therapist" series. This week, one reader wants help moving on from a breakup, while another asks about forgiving her cheating boyfriend.

Ending a marriage can be a harrowing process. One mother-daughter team is putting on an expo, bringing together about a hundred professionals who deal with divorce and life after divorce, from legal experts to makeup specialists.

From the flowers and the food to the dress and the ’do, some women have their weddings planned down to the last detail, collecting all of it on social networking site Pinterest. But one component is still missing: the proposal.

Relationship expert Dr. Gilda Carle cuts through the fluff with her relationship advice in TODAY.com's "30-second therapist" series. One reader asks how to get her family to accept her boyfriend, while another wants to know whether she should stay with a man who won't say "I love you."

When Petra Cahill’s parents married in 1962, the pill was not yet legal, college tuition was a three-figure cost and most women didn't work outside the home. She set out to learn how they stayed together in the face of a culture that has changed radically.

Relationship expert Dr. Robi Ludwig explains why we fall for people who show love differently, and why that can actually be positive.

Sharon Jayson of USA TODAY and clinical psychologist Judith Sills talk about how stress during the first year of marriage can impact the long-term success of the relationship. (TODAY)

TODAY’s panel of guys – Chuck Nice, Rick Younger, Ed Watts and David Good – answer viewers’ questions about whether long-distance relationships work and how long women should wait until their boyfriend proposes. (TODAY)

Hoping to reverse the rising divorce rate among service members, organizations across the country are offering military couples and families places to have fun, bond and cope with life after wartime.

TODAY’s Sara Haines heads to Boston to try her hand as a “wing-woman” for hire, attempting to help guys break the ice when out on the town and looking for love. (TODAY)

Kelly Wallace from iVillage reveals the results of a new sex survey that found that women get in the mood for sex when their husbands share loving feelings about them. (TODAY)

TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer discuss details of the surprising split between celebrities Heidi Klum and Seal after 7 years of marriage. (TODAY)

Do you and your spouse have hot button issues that you always find yourself arguing over? Take our quiz and then tune in to TODAY Wednesday morning to hear relationship experts  discuss the results and offer tips.

While benefits of marriage reduce over time, couples who live together have more happiness, self esteem, study finds

For most people, the holiday season is a time spent with family and friends, but for many it can be a time of intense loneliness. Scammers count on that.

Dr. Robi Ludwig shares some tips for dealing with family during the holidays. The key? Stay positive.

"A gift is a gift," Kim Kardashian's mother Kris Jenner said. "If you look at the etiquette books, it says keep a present."

A TODAY.com panel answers questions from readers with relationship dilemmas in the first installment of our weekly advice column. Here, one man wonders how to stop his girlfriend's Facebook addiction and a woman asks how to prevent her husband's wandering eye.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick never takes his wedding ring off, even when he's out on the field. What do you think? Should married people always wear their rings?

Experts say that fantasizing about celebrities may heat things up in your own bedroom. Tell us, who is your celebrity crush?

Kim Kardashian’s brief 72-day marriage has roused public indignation, but sometimes, women find themselves wanting to end marriages before they’ve hardly begun. When they do, experts say, the situation calls for sensitivity and candor.

Call me crazy, but I went on a date two weeks after my double mastectomy. Thanks to the painkillers, half the time I thought I was on the moon. But I did it. Not so much because I was desperate to date but because I needed to get used to life without breasts at some point and figured I might as well get cracking.

Kevin Cotter turned heartbreak into hilarity with his blog about creative uses for his ex’s wedding dress, from doggie toy to pasta strainer. And now “101 Uses for My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress” is a book for those in the throes of a breakup.

One man's quest to find practical applications for a gown of silk nets him a successful blog — and a book deal.

Do you need some relationship advice? Tell us your situation, and we may have a panel of experts tackle your dilemma on TODAY.com.

Ladies, if you feel your partner is a great provider but meh in the love-making department, it may have something to do with your birth control, a new study finds.

Readers shared their thoughts on a TODAY.com segment Tuesday morning about more women choosing to put off or forgo marriage. Here, we showcase some of the most interesting comments.

Jobs can be a couple killer when your partner is married to their work. Dr. Robi Ludwig shares a few tips on how to deal with a significant other who can't find balance between work and home life.

Cosmopolitan magazine’s Kate White moderates a relationship quiz between TODAY’s Hoda Kotb and guest cohost Nick Lachey. (TODAY)

If the whole thing started with a ring, why shouldn't it end with one? One jeweler is now selling a divorce ring — complete with a solitaire and jagged broken heart — for $3,200.

Love potion isn't just the stuff of romantic songs: The brain emits powerful chemicals when we first go gaga for someone. Once smitten, these “love” chemicals surge and their health effects are set in motion.

Donny Deutsch chats with TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb about female viewers’ relationship dilemmas, including  how bickering impacts love. (TODAY)

Men need more cuddles and kisses than women, and if that weren’t surprising enough to researchers in an international study on long-term relationships, sexual satisfaction is more important to women in long-term relationships.

TODAY’s resident “guy’s guy,” Donny Deutsch, tackles viewers’ relationship questions about sex, love and more. (TODAY)

Why would Marie Osmond, Elizabeth Taylor, Melanie Griffith and thousands of non-celebrities remarry the spouses they divorced months, years or even decades earlier? Brain chemistry and the simple passage of time can have a lot to do with it, experts say.

Relationship expert Pepper Schwartz and professor of psychology Gary Marcus talk about what happens in our brain when we fight and what it says about us as individuals. (TODAY)

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, could time spent together in extremely tight quarters make the heart grow ... ummm ... considerably less fond? Yes — and no. Here's how truckers, boaters and RVers manage to stay together over the long haul.

Ian Kerner, sex therapist, and Dr. Gail Saltz, psychiatrist, talk about how to spice up a relationship to avoid bedroom boredom. (TODAY)

Paul Gutierrez will cough up thousands of dollars to the person who lands him a date with his future wife. He says he'll donate the money to the charity of the person's choice.

Researchers now understand that romantic rejection triggers changes in our brains that affect our health.

TODAY’s Natalie Morales talks with psychotherapist Robi Ludwig and media mogul Donny Deutsch about why successful politicians and celebrities cheat on their significant others and lie about it. (TODAY)

Ever have a pal who leaves you feeling drained, bad about yourself or perpetually frustrated — even though she claims to want the best for you? Or are your true friends truly loyal? Take the TODAY.com/SELF survey.

TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb talk with Donny Deutsch, who answers viewer questions about love and relationships, including what to do when your best friend wants to date but you’re not attracted to him. (TODAY)

Be careful what you wish for, I think as my husband reaches again for his new toy. Tragically, it's not a Ferrari or the latest Mac laptop —  it's his Penis 2.0—the new, pharmaceutically enhanced model.

Whether you’re single or married, igniting the spark of intimacy can be a whole new ballgame during your midlife years. Sex therapist Ian Kerner and relationship expert Kailen Rosenberg talk about the changes maturity may bring to your love life. (TODAY)

After being divorced for decades, Terry DeMeo and her ex-husband reunited when she became his caregiver as he was dying. A growing number of women are stepping up for a range of reasons, including protecting their children, a new study finds.

A new iVillage poll reveals that 97 percent of women bend the truth. So who are ladies lying to and what are they fibbing about? Kelly Wallace, of iVillage.com, and psychotherapist Robi Ludwig discuss the truths behind women’s little white lies. (TODAY)

Cosmopolitan magazine’s Kate White and TODAY contributor Dr. Gail Saltz offer tips for couples that will help take a relationship to the next level and discuss situations that will cause a relationship to tank. (TODAY)

Susan Swimmer of MORE magazine quizzes TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and guest host Kris Jenner on hot sex topics for women over 40. (TODAY)

For Santina Bowers and Moise Naolo, romance blossomed amid – well – actual blossoms. They wed Sunday at the flower show where their love first germinated – part of a growing trend of couples exchanging vows in retail settings.

TODAY’s Sara Haines hits the streets of New York City to ask people what they think are the best and worst pickup lines. (TODAY)

It's probably a good idea to unfriend one wife on Facebook before marrying another. Generally speaking, a divorce would also be appropriate.

TODAY contributor and psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz talks about how to deal with adult female bullies and catty women. (TODAY)

Matrimonial attorney Raoul Felder shows how to approach divorce as an optimistic opportunity rather than a traumatic battle of wills in "The Good Divorce." Read an excerpt.

For people recently flattened by a still-painful breakup, Valentine’s Day can be intolerable. But take heart: Empathetic souls are stepping up and helping people move on before Monday.

So you say eHarmony leaves you feeling a little blasé? Match.com makes you say, “Meh”? Not to worry: An explosion of niche dating sites is allowing picky date-seekers to find, well, just about anyone.

A new book applies the market rules of cold hard capitalism to the economy of your marriage to help you efficiently allocate limited resources such as time, money, sanity and, yes, even your sex drive.

Ah, the stuff of romance: lye in the face, strategic dismemberment and murder. (And you thought your lovers’ spats were bad.) Here are 11 true stories of lovers who committed crimes due to jealousy, desperation or a longing for adventure.