Dahnā, living in the Arabian Peninsula during the Umayyad Islamic period, was asked why she was unhappy with her marriage, ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

Joann visits ‘The Great Pit’ to examine bits of pottery and stone with love poetry ... the ancient Egyptians. She describes the ceremony ‘Bringing the Bundle’, which was a kind of marriage ...

Corey Van Landingham, a graduate of Purdue's creative writing MFA program has published three poetry collections. Her third, "Reader, I," explores the nuances of romantic relationships in conversation ...