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As home prices have risen, especially in large cities, the idea of co-buying — where multiple, non-married buyers are listed on the sales deed — has become increasingly common, according to Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at real-estate data firm Attom Data Solutions. Many of these transactions involve parents helping their kids buy a home. In San Jose, Calif., nearly half (49.3%) of all housing sales involved co-buyers as of the second quarter of 2018, according to a report from Attom.

Other ways parents are helping out:

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Can simply asking and answering each other's questions make two people fall in love? As it turns out, yes, according to a study published in 1997 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

To conduct the study, researchers developed an escalating series of 36 questions, then had paired strangers ask each other the questions. There were a few other tweaks, but the process worked so well that at least one of the of the study pairings ended up getting married.

In 2015 those 36 questions went mainstream in an essay published in the New York Times. In the essay, Mandy Len Catron describes her surprising experience of using the techniques from the study with her partner, showing that using the 36 questions can help even long-time existing couples become more intimate.

Why not give it a try yourself this Valentines? Get a copy of the 36 questions and hear a podcast reading of Catron's essay here.