Why this page
Nobody looks for "the best site": people look for an answer. When another site gives it better than we do, we might as well send you there at once — that is what this page does, with links. And when we do something the others do not, we might as well say so too. The judgements below are ours, dated September 2026; the sites named asked for nothing and pay us nothing.
About this content
The texts on this site are mainly written by an artificial intelligence — Claude "Fable", Anthropic's most advanced model, used at its maximum reasoning level, which makes it cross far more sources and special cases than an ordinary web search or a quick question to an assistant. Each page follows a plan and rules set by the publisher (a general article says only what is true everywhere, everything national goes into a country fiche, every figure has a source), sensitive facts are checked on official sites at the time of writing, the verification date appears at the bottom of every page, and a human review validates before publication (see Who writes). What this gives you compared with asking an AI: the answer is already there, country by country, without waiting or rephrasing; it is the same for everyone, with a stable address you can share and cite; it is free, with no account and no subscription; and the site's forms — compatibility, calculators, quizzes, country-to-country comparator, nearest maternity unit — do what a text cannot.
What we do better than the others
- Nine languages, and the law of each country: more than 5,000 pages in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Turkish, with for each legal or health topic a fiche per country (marriage age, divorce, custody, contraception, abortion, IVF, adoption…), linked from one language to another — the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and more on the English side. No advice site we know covers sixty countries this way.
- The country-to-country comparator and the panoramas: see on one page how twenty countries handle the same question, without opening twenty tabs.
- One site for the whole of life as a couple: dating, seduction, couples, family, separation, sexual health, rights, travel, astrology — where the others cover one field and send you elsewhere for the rest.
- Tools that calculate: love compatibility (astrological, numerological, biorhythmic, with the distance between your cities), birth chart, ascendant, ovulation calendar, wedding budget, cost of a divorce or of custody, nearest maternity unit, some thirty quizzes.
- Free, no account, no paywall, no sign-up pop-up; your answers to the forms stay in your browser.
- Subjects the others avoid: prostitution as the law sees it, forced marriage, impunity for rape by country, slavery today, transgender identity and rights, surgery and medical tourism — treated informatively, with sources.
What the others have more of (and where to go)
Health. The NHS website is the reference for the UK, written and reviewed by clinicians; the Mayo Clinic, WebMD and Healthline have medical boards, symptom checkers and huge condition libraries; Planned Parenthood, Scarleteen and Bedsider talk about sex and contraception with clinics and a live chat behind them; Healthdirect (Australia), HSE (Ireland) and the Canadian provinces have official, funded services. They all have what we lack: named doctors who sign, videos, forums, apps, helplines. We have what they lack: the comparison between countries and the link with life as a couple.
Couples and psychology. Psychology Today has thousands of therapists writing and a directory; the Gottman Institute forty years of research on couples; Verywell Mind reviewed explainers; Relate (UK) counselling you can book. Magazines (Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Men's Health, Glamour) have news, testimonies and communities; we have structure and country fiches.
Dating. The big platforms (Match, Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, eharmony, OkCupid, Grindr) publish blogs and studies on their own users, with data we do not have; in return, they talk only about themselves. Our publisher also runs a dating site, Affection.org (French-speaking): we say so whenever the section comes near it, and our pages on dating sites compare the other services without hiding them.
Law. gov.uk, Citizens Advice, Citizens Information (Ireland), USA.gov and the state courts' self-help centres, the Canadian and Australian government portals are the source; we cite them and send you there. Nolo (US) and FindLaw offer plain-English law and lawyer directories; Equaldex and ILGA map LGBT rights worldwide better than anyone. What we add: the same question put to sixty countries, on one page.
Astrology. Astro.com (Astrodienst) and Cafe Astrology calculate fuller and more precise charts than ours, with very long interpretations; Astrology.com and the magazine horoscopes have well-known astrologers. We have the link with love compatibility and the reminder, on every page, that no study validates what astrology describes.
Living abroad. The FCDO travel advice, the US State Department, Expatica, Expat.com and InterNations have the communities and practical life; we have the fiches on couples, marriage and family in each country.
AI assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot) are our most serious competitor: they answer any question, in your language, taking your situation into account. Their limits are known — answers that vary from one time to the next, sometimes invented sources, no memory of what has been verified, and the time it takes to ask the right question. This site is, in a way, what an assistant would answer if it had taken days to check, country by country, and if its answer were frozen, dated and reviewed; and when the question goes beyond that frame, the assistant remains the right complement.
What we lack, and what we are preparing
We have no forum, no named doctors, no videos, no app, and we know it. We are preparing what makes the difference of a living site: more quizzes and games for two or more, by invitation, to get to know each other differently; an optional sync of your personal space from one device to another; "diaspora" pages to meet fellow countrymen abroad. If you know a site that does better than us on a topic, write to us: it is the most useful message we receive, right after corrections.