Want to write a string of best-sellers and spark endless romantic box-office hits? Helen O’Hara talks to the master, Nicholas Sparks.

Go out on Friday night, get a few drinks in and watch the migration of women on to the dance floor. But men are a different story, writes Verity Johnson.

A lovelorn 29-year-old Harvard grad is crowdsourcing his soulmate search, offering $10,000 to anyone who introduces him to a woman he dates for more than six months.

While we share travel photos and life musings with a long list of virtual friends, the average person still only relies on a few people.

The truth is I'm not all that busy, says Matty Litwack, I just prefer being single. Here are a few reasons why.

He spent a night with Kim from Seattle and loved footy and foreign girls. He recorded all his Kiwi adventures in diary but he didn't leave his name.

He believes we should 'keep our options open' and leave our dating profiles up online. He says he's not seeing anyone else, but can't rule it out in the future. What shall I do?

Marriage can boost your health in a number of ways but it appears there is one measure where it lets you down – your waistline.

Newly defined and moulded by technology, here are eight ways in which relationships have morphed in the past decade.

There is a certain romantic magic about a late night stroll in the summer rain. Arm in arm, heads tilted together, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Kylie Minogue certainly made a sweet couple.

None of us knows whether we would stand by our man until it happens to us.

Joanna Mathers looks at the reasons high-profile wives choose to stand by their man, even when they've strayed.

Unlike husbands, canines aren't moody and depressingly downbeat; unlike wives, they don't want to change you. No wonder we put them first, says Judith Woods.

There was a brief time in my life when a wedding invitation dropping onto the mat filled me with delight. But now? Well, now people have gone insane.

Rihanna's pals don't like her boyfriend.

Charlize Theron reportedly "won't talk" to Sean Penn.

Pope Francis says that it may be acceptable, or even "morally necessary", for married couples to split up if they are at war with each other.

Elizabeth Wurtzel reveals how she has finally found peace with a husband and is even planning to start a family.

It's said to cure women's low libido by making sex more pleasurable. But with fears over side-effects, many doctors are sceptical.

Gender still matters in a lot of our daily lives, but it doesn't have to. Lee Suckling shares five gender-based peculiarities of modern society that can be questioned.

Too scared to dump your lover? Now there's an app for that.

A leading body language expert says Colin Craig's press conference alongside his wife, Helen, featured "unnatural smiling" and a level of guilt and fear.

The app allows women to fill in anonymously an online survey on former boyfriends and male acquaintances on Facebook.

If you’ve given up hope of dating the man or woman of your dreams, then don’t despair – scientists may have come up with a solution.

Scientists are close to developing a vaccine to prevent against chlamydia.

German eBay user der.juli has literally cut all his possessions in half to spite his ex-wife of 12 years.

What happens if one person wants to get married and the other does not? Relationship expert Jill Goldson shares her advice.

A group of Aucklanders are rebelling from a hook-up oriented dating app culture and injecting some wholesomeness back into modern romance.

Here are five things that bug women and men the most when messaging with a potential love interest, according to research.