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...married just over a week ago, so I haven't had a mother-in-law for long. So far, so good. In the 10 days we've been in-laws, and the five years before that when my husband was my boyfriend, my relationship with his mom has been blissfully stress-free. And while we both like to think we're too charming and too wise to lock horns, there are other factors at play that help us stay friendly. One is proximity - or, in our case, the lack thereof. My husband and I live in London, while his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother-in-Law Problems: They're Worse for Women | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Eleanor Estes, a Los Angeles-based stylist, found herself in an extreme LDR when her boyfriend moved back to his native Greece. Like Aida, she indulged in the romance of the far-flung affair: "I loved the coming together and then leaving part," Estes confides. "It was always so thrilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Work Long-Distance | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...movies. But consider this: every time you see each other, it's like a mini-vacation - a geographic and emotional holiday. "I lived in Seattle; he lived in San Francisco," says Aida,* a 40-year-old writer, who sometimes waited a month and a half between visits with her boyfriend. "We would meet each other on the California-Oregon border - we each had to drive six to seven hours to get there - for a long weekend of camping, hiking, drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Work Long-Distance | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

Several years ago in the town of Merauke, on the southern coast of Papua province in Indonesia, a young woman was diagnosed with HIV. Upon learning that she had been infected by her boyfriend, according to a local doctor, the woman decided to take "revenge." She began sleeping with as many men as possible, asking only for a copy of her partner's identity card. Shortly before she died, she told her family to look under her pillow, where they found 50 photocopies - evidence of her self-proclaimed campaign to infect as many men as possible before dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papua Proposal: A Microchip to Track the HIV-Positive | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...temporary town has sprouted. Nearly 4,000 residents from the mountainside village of Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses, among which Luo Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her boyfriend Yang Yong had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says. "No one else in the same building made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising From the Rubble of the Sichuan Quake | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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