Word: wedded
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...Sawlit says, trailing off. Hastrup finishes the sentence for her. “She would’ve said no.” But of course for Hastrup and Sawlit, who have been close since they first met during her pre-frosh weekend, their June 22 wedding in Foxborough, Mass., might just have been inevitable. Hastrup, a Fresno, Calif., native, had been smitten by the then-high school senior Sawlit ever since her appearance at a swim team party his freshman year at Harvard. “I saw her walk in the door…not exactly love...
...later. But on Wednesday, Malaysia's highest court blocked her final attempt to have her conversion legally recognized by the state. It was a blow to her heart as well as her soul. Malaysian law prohibits marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims, so Joy will not be able to wed the Christian man she loves...
What propels The Kabul Beauty School are the stories of its students. One of them faces shame and possible death because her husband-to-be is about to discover, on their wedding night, that she's not a virgin. (Rodriguez helps out with blood from her own finger, cleverly repackaged.) A young woman's husband insists she show her obedience by sleeping with other men; it turns out he's a pimp, and she narrowly avoids a lifetime of prostitution. Indeed, hardly a page goes by without somebody collapsing in sobs. Male readers especially will find the book sodden with...
Finally, it's true that Americans wait longer than ever to wed. But the rise in marrying age almost exactly mirrors the rise in life expectancy. In 1970 the average American woman could expect to live 74.7 years; by 2003 she could expect to make it to 80.1--a 5 1/2-year difference. Similarly, in 1970 the median age at which women first wed was 20.8; in 2003 it was 25.3--a 4 1/2-year difference. Women are waiting to get married longer at least in part because they are living longer...
Should they feel pressure to wed at all? As Bella DePaulo demonstrates in her (ponderously titled) 2006 book Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, the evidence that marriage makes us happy and healthy is quite weak. It's true that currently married people report slightly higher levels of happiness than single people. (In one big study that DePaulo cites, being married was associated with a 0.115-point increase in life satisfaction on a 0 to 10 scale.) But researchers can't reliably determine which causes which, the marriage or the happiness...