Premarital Sex

Women who don't sleep around before their wedding have happier marriages - but men can play the field without worry, study finds

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733220/Women-don-t-sleep-wedding-happier-marriages-men-play-field-without-worry-study-finds.html

Premarital Sex and Greater Risk of Divorce

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/about_us/focus-findings/marriage/premarital-sex-and-divorce.aspx

Divorce

Premarital Sex, Premarital Cohabitation, and the Risk of Subsequent Marital Dissolution Among Women

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003.00444.x/abstract

Does Divorce Risk Depend on Spouses' Relative Income?

http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2004-010.pdf

More men are pointing to their wives' excessive drinking and drug use when filing for divorce "In a seismic shift from a decade ago, family lawyers say more men are pointing to their wives' excessive drinking and drug use when filing for divorce, with an increasing number of husbands being awarded sole custody of their children because of it."

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/family-lawyers-denounce-sex-and-the-city-over-australian-divorces/story-fnet09y4-1226619442657

Economics

Women in Mature Economies Control Household Spending

http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/traditional/women-in-mature-economies-control-household-spending-12931/ 

Effects

The size of the health gain from marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up.
http://psydok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2008/1668/pdf/dp1619.pdf

Quality

Relevance of gender roles in life satisfaction in adult people

 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914003882

Emotion Regulation Predicts Marital Satisfaction: More Than a Wives' Tale.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24188061

Marriages Are More Satisfying When Wives Are Thinner Than Their Husbands

http://spp.sagepub.com/content/2/4/416.abstract

What’s Love Got To Do With It? Equality, Equity, Commitment and Women’s Marital Quality 

"Recent work indicates that marital quality declined over much of the past four decades,
although the rate of decline seems to have leveled off in the 1990s"
"we saw evidence that women who are more egalitarian-minded and more upset
with the division of household labor receive lower levels of positive emotion work from their
husbands, perhaps because they are more likely to initiate conflict with their husbands. Thus,
rising expectations among women for marital equality may also have the unintended effect of
lowering investments in marital emotion work on the part of men; this, in turn, may be
associated with declines in marital quality for American women"

http://www.virginia.edu/sociology/peopleofsociology/wilcoxpapers/Wilcox%20Nock%20marriage.pdf

Objects

Woman who married warehouse now engaged to neighborhood

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/07/02/woman-who-married-warehouse-now-engaged-to-neighborhood/

Puppy love: man marries his dog

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/man-marrys-dog-city-first-toowoomba/710538/

Chen will marry herself.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/22/us-taiwan-wedding-odd-idUSTRE69L3H720101022

Amy Wolfe, a US church organist who claims to have objectum sexuality, a condition that makes sufferers attracted to inanimate objects, plans to marry a magic carpet fairground ride.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5972632/Woman-getting-married-to-fairground-ride.html?fb

And then on April 8, 2007, Erika LaBrie became Erika Eiffel in a commitment ceremony before 10 of her closest friends.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/love-objects/article1259075/