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Relationship Advice

Relationship advice for engaged couples and newlyweds, because ultimately a wedding is all about your relationship with your partner. If you’re looking for more relationship advice, be sure to check out our sister site Offbeat Home & Life. (It’s like us but for the rest of life — including post-wedding relationship advice!)

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My fiance won’t help me with wedding planning: Learning from partnership imbalances

Ariel answers the perennial question: “Why does it seem like all the wedding planning falls to me?”

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9 ways to get your groom involved

Are you having trouble getting your groom to buck up and help with the wedding planning? Or getting him to say anything other than “Sure, whatever…” when you ask him wedding-related questions? These 9 suggestions just might change his attitude from “meh” you “yeah!”

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Why do longtime partners split after getting married?

“I just heard about friends who married after being together for 7-8 years, but end up divorced after the first year or so. Why do you think that happens?”

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Getting your offbeat groom involved

This is an awesome opportunity for the two of you to sit down and reconstruct the whole “This is the bride’s special daaaaaay, and the groom is just an accessory” bullshit.

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So, how’s married life?

One bride named Sarah got asked this question so many times, that she finally just took this self portrait as an easy answer.

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Offbeat Bride + Traditional Groom = ?!?

How do manage when you’re dreaming of a weird wedding, and he’s dreaming of a tux with tails?