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Each installment of " The Friendship Files " features a conversation between The Atlantic 's Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two friends who used to be married. They discuss their amicable—really!—divorce, how they reconnected afterward, what it means to be happy for someone else even if their decision hurts you, and what friendship has given them that marriage did not. The Friends: Matt Long , 37, a teacher who lives in Denver, Colorado Julie Rattelmueller , 38, a massage therapist who lives in Denver, Colorado This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Julie Beck: Can you give me a brief history of your romantic relationship? Julie Rattelmueller: Well, it was 12 years. Matt Long: We met in February of 2004 in Montreal, Quebec, at an audition for the National Circus School of Canada. Julie: Neither of us got in. I came from 15 years in the ballet world, which is very ...

Any loss can cause lingering pain, but the loss of a best friend can be particularly difficult to bear. They've existed in your life for so long, you can't imagine any other reality. "Best friends forever," you might have promised. A world without them might seem completely altered, even impossible to navigate alone. Whether your friend died or the two of you no longer talk due to personal differences, you've experienced a major loss. It's only normal to feel grief. Your grief might be complicated by the fact that society doesn't always acknowledge the significance of friendships in the way it does romantic relationships or familial bonds. This may leave you feeling excluded from mourning rituals, or as if other people judge you for being so deeply affected. The seven strategies below can help you navigate your loss, regardless of the circumstances. If you've heard of the five stages of grief, you may know denial appears first on that list. But experts...

The highest court in the Maldives on Tuesday overturned the prison sentence of the country's former president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, who had been convicted of money laundering. A three-member Supreme Court bench unanimously annulled the five-year jail term and $ 5 million fine slapped on Yameen two years ago by a lower court. The former leader had recently been moved to house arrest. The judges said the evidence given at the initial trial had discrepancies and did not conclusively prove that Yameen had laundered $ 1 million in state money for personal gain. Yameen ruled the Maldives, an Indian ocean archipelago state known as an expensive tourist destination, from 2013 to 2018, before losing a re-election bid to current President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. He was accused of corruption and stifling dissent and the media during his time in office. There are other corruption cases pending against him in court. Adblock test (Why?)

The magazine's Ethicist columnist on responding to infidelity. I am a retired but active woman in my 60s. I started dating a gentleman, also retired, some months ago after meeting him at a party. He said that he had just ended a long-distance relationship with someone but that she had told him to go ahead and start seeing other women. He gave me a ride home and invited me to have coffee the next day. Given the pandemic, we started meeting in open air settings, socially distanced, but very much enjoying each other's company and conversation. I found him fascinating, and we became very good friends. When we became lovers, I believed we had found a deep connection, on many levels. I fell in love. And based on what he had said, I thought he had received permission from his prior girlfriend to start seeing other women. Long after we had become intimate he told me he hadn't been completely honest. He did have a long-distance relationship with a woman over several years; they were...

Premarital counseling has the potential to benefit your marriage in the long run. Consider this common scenario: You've moved through the early dating phase and shifted from a place of liking each other to becoming smitten with one another.   As you prepare for marriage, conversations with your beloved are more future-focused, dotted with questions such as, "Do you think you may want to have kids someday?" or "Where is your ideal place to live?" RELATED: 5 Things You Absolutely Must Talk About Before Marriage As your feelings for one another deepen, you realize that you want to be part of each other's daily life. Now, you're talking about making those thoughts of a long-term commitment become a reality. Before you walk down the aisle, premarital counseling could be a critical step toward ensuring a successful and healthy relationship. What happens in premarital counseling? Premarital counseling is a type of co...

Bihar state is known for its extreme poverty among the Indian states. But a Muslim marriage in Siwan and it's "Walima" was in the news last weak due mainly to its sheer extravagance. The daughter of late Siwan MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, Dr. Hera Shahab got married to Shadman Iftikhar Ahmed on November 15 and the Walima was held on November 18,2021. Both these occasions were celebrated on a grand scale. A Bahubali like filmi stage was erected for the occasion where around 80000 guests were served with exotic veg and non veg dishes of more than 50 types. Even an elephant was pressed into service to give the ceremony a royal touch. All the big politicians of Bihar including Tejaswi Yadav and other VIP attended this lavish Muslim marriage. [embedded content] A general question being asked how come these so called Muslim leaders amass such huge wealth and do not shy away from displaying their spendthrift streak in social events like marriages. It was a fact that there a...

One word to describe a relationship between Virgo and Sagittarius? Complicated. The earthy Virgin is practical, highly organized, and has everything planned out in advance, while the fiery archer does whatever they feel like in the moment. Plus, Virgos are the type to want marriage, family, and a mortgage, while the freedom-loving Sagittarius never stays in one place too long. It's a relationship that's going to be quite challenging, but with enough patience, it's one that can work. Virgo and Sagittarius' zodiac compatibility has everything you need to know about this mismatched pair. "Virgo and Sagittarius is a combustible match, with expansive Sagittarius cramped in tidy Virgo's house," Stina Garbis, professional astrologer and psychic, tells Bustle. "Virgo is used to managing the more mundane aspects of life, and keeping things just so, and Sagittarius, the jester of the zodiac, comes and upsets that balance." Both signs enjoy being active and...

A representative image. Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian says that the best age to commit to a life partner is 26. According to this theory, if you're any younger or older than 26, you're going to argue too much and it just won't work out.  The rule dictates that once you're 37% of the way through completing something within a set timeframe, then you have reached the perfect point at which to decide. A new math theory has suggested that people should get married at the age of 26 as it is the best time for them to make a life partner. In their book, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian wrote that the best age to commit to a life partner is 26. The rule dictates that once you're 37% of the way through completing something within a set timeframe, then you have reached the perfect point at which to decide, The Independent reported. If the average person is looking for their perfect match between...

Though most friendships aren't always predetermined by zodiac compatibility, there is a likeliness that you could be drawn to a similar sign based off of personality traits and personal values. After all, if you're a Scorpio with a ton of Pisces friends, is it a mere coincidence, or is it already written in the stars? If it's the latter, it's easy to see why if you take a peek at each sign's friendship profile, and compare it to your own. Interested in seeing which zodiac signs best match your own? Want to discover if your current friend group aligns with your sign compatibility? Read on to see which signs should be your BFFs, based off your zodiac sign! Adblock test (Why?)

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(CNN) South Africa's government is considering allowing women to have multiple husbands, a possibility that has thrown the country's conservatives into uproar. The proposal to allow polyandry was included in a green paper from South Africa's Department of Home Affairs, which hopes to make marriage more inclusive. The option is just one of several in a wide-ranging document, but it has caused intense debate in South Africa. Polygamy, where men marry multiple wives, is legal in the country. "South Africa inherited a marriage regime that was based on the Calvinist Christian and Western traditions," the paper notes, adding that the current marriage laws are "not informed by an overarching policy that is based on constitutional values and the understanding of modern society dynamics." The document points out that the current law allows the marriage of minors and does not account for couples who change their sex and want to remain married without going throug...

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All dressed in red? Fans are convinced  Kourtney Kardashian  is dropping hints that she may be walking down the aisle in a red wedding dress.  "I told you guys, everything is red," TikTok user @carolinejcrawford said in her video, referring to Kourtney's possible wedding dress. "Everything's literally red. It's gonna be red … I called this! I felt this in my bones and I think she's leading up to it."  The TikTok user swiped through multiple photos from the  Keeping Up With the Kardashians  alum's October 28 Instagram carousel post. It featured a snap of Kourtney, 42, wearing a red leather crisscross-topped dress, while another showed countless red roses surrounding the Poosh founder and her fiancé  Travis Barker' s initials in the middle.  Another picture in the carousel captured Kourtney's hand wearing her engagement ring on top of three red roses, while th...

Though most friendships aren't always predetermined by zodiac compatibility, there is a likeliness that you could be drawn to a similar sign based off of personality traits and personal values. After all, if you're a Scorpio with a ton of Pisces friends, is it a mere coincidence, or is it already written in the stars? If it's the latter, it's easy to see why if you take a peek at each sign's friendship profile, and compare it to your own. Interested in seeing which zodiac signs best match your own? Want to discover if your current friend group aligns with your sign compatibility? Read on to see which signs should be your BFFs, based off your zodiac sign! Adblock test (Why?)

Kimie James When we say that Quanei and Maurice go way back, we mean way way back. The first time they locked eyes, they were 12 and 13 years old. Maurice's older brother was dating Quanei's sister, and one day when his mom decided to take his brother to visit with his girlfriend, Maurice wanted to tag along. Escorted into the living room, it was then that he would meet Quanei, and from there, time stopped. "I met the girl of my dreams," he recounts to ESSENCE. "She was lying down watching SpongeBob . When our eyes locked it was literally love at first sight." She agrees. "I honestly realized I found the one when we locked eyes at 12 and 13. It was like our souls aligned immediately. I cannot truly describe the feeling in words, but butterflies filled my stomach, and we sta...