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...been done on how communication before death affects a widow or widower's physical and mental well-being after their spouse is gone. One study, published last spring in the journal Death Studies, found that knowing ahead of time that a spouse is fatally ill may give the surviving partner an opportunity for closure and may prevent extreme depression later on. The paper warns that while most mourners eventually recover from the loss of a loved one, about 20% will face chronic emotional difficulties. Having a chance to say goodbye can mitigate those future problems. "It was less about...
...years of counseling couples, Mira Kirshenbaum has discerned 17 reasons that people have extramarital affairs. In a near majority of couples, one partner will cheat on the other at some point. In her new book, When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships (St. Martin's), Kirshenbaum explains the reasons and offers some helpful - and sometimes surprising - advice on how to manage the consequences. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Kirshenbaum at her office in Boston...
Dominguez said the Initiative, created to facilitate research and teaching about South Asia, hopes to create a study abroad program in Mumbai, but that local laws and difficulties finding a suitable partner institution have limited them to aiding with internship placement for the time being...
That was the mistake Jane Fowler, 74, a co-founder of HIV Wisdom for Older Women, made after divorce ended her 24-year marriage. A self-dubbed "1950s good girl," Fowler had only ever had one partner - her husband. Newly single in her early 50s, she started dating a man she'd known her entire life, and pregnancy was no longer a concern. "If you know for a fact that you can't become pregnant and you don't know anything about sexually transmitted diseases," she says, "why would you use a condom?" Five years later, a routine blood test...
...individual cases. For instance, doctors know that older women in general have a more difficult time conceiving. But Yao believes it should be possible to better predict whether a woman in her 40s will get pregnant through IVF based on the overall quality of the embryos she and her partner produce. Doctors already use their own algorithms for determining a couple's chances of having a baby, but Yao and her team are attempting to streamline and standardize the process. Ultimately, she believes, the embryo screen will be able to help couples who have already undergone one unsuccessful cycle...