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Seymour Fleming
Seymour Dorothy Fleming, Lady Worsley (1757–1818), British heiress whose 1782 criminal conversation trial with Sir Richard Worsley and Captain Bissett, ending in one-shilling damages, became a landmark sex scandal.
Shaadi.com
Shaadi.com is an Indian online matrimonial and matchmaking platform launched in 1996 by Anupam Mittal's People Group in Mumbai, serving about 35 million members across India and the diaspora.
Sham marriage
Sham marriage, or marriage of convenience, is a legally valid marriage lacking genuine relationship, typically for immigration advantage. UK law defines it statutorily; enforcement, burden of proof, and criticism of the genuine/sham binary distinguish the concept.
Shidduch (שידוך)
Shidduch (שידוך; plural shidduchim) is a match between two single Jews for the purpose of marriage, arranged by a matchmaker called a shadchan and practiced mainly in Orthodox communities.
Shotgun wedding
Shotgun wedding: a hurried marriage prompted by the bride's pregnancy, historically coerced by the bride's father, from the American frontier. Once the US norm until the 1970s, it declined after abortion and contraception liberalization, driving most of the rise in out-of-wedlock births.
Significant other
Significant other (SO): a gender-neutral term for a spouse or long-term romantic partner that presumes nothing about marital status or orientation; in sociology and psychology it instead means anyone, such as a parent or peer, who strongly shapes a person's self-concept.
Simon Leviev (שמעון יהודה חיוט)
Simon Leviev (Shimon Yehuda Hayut), Israeli con man who posed as diamond heir Lev Leviev's son to defraud Tinder matches; subject of 2022 Netflix film The Tinder Swindler; convicted in Israel 2019, arrested in Georgia 2025.
Simp
Simp is internet slang for someone, usually a man, showing excessive devotion to a romantic interest without reciprocation. Clipped from "simpleton" (1903), it spread via hip-hop, the manosphere, and TikTok's 2019 Simp Nation trend.
Sineenatha
Sineenatha (Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, born Niramon Aunprom/Ounprom, 1985) is the Royal Noble Consort of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn, appointed July 2019, demoted October 2019, reinstated August 2020; distinct from the Telugu poet Śrīnātha.
Sister Wives
Sister Wives is a TLC reality series (2010–) about Kody Brown, his legal wife Meri, spiritual wives Janelle, Christine, and Robyn, their plural marriage, the Brown v. Buhman lawsuit, and the family's later collapse.
So-yeon Schröder-Kim
So-yeon Schröder-Kim (Kim So-yeon), born 1970, is a South Korean interpreter and translator, fifth wife of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (married 7 May 2018), former NRW.INVEST Seoul representative, dismissed by NRW.Global Business in 2023 after attending a Russian embassy reception.
Something old
Something old: first item of the English bridal luck rhyme "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a sixpence in her shoe," a Victorian-era custom symbolizing continuity, new beginnings, borrowed happiness, and fidelity.
Sonia Sutcliffe
Sonia Sutcliffe, nee Sonia Szurma, English school teacher, married Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe in 1974; won 1989 Private Eye libel case, lost 1990 News of the World case, divorced 1994, remarried Michael Woodward 1997.
Speed dating
Speed dating: organized brief one-on-one dating encounters with mutual-yes matching, created in 1998 Los Angeles by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo for Jewish singles, and widely used as a research paradigm for initial romantic attraction.
Spouse
A spouse is a person's lawfully married husband or wife, a status created by marriage that confers rights and duties and ends with death, divorce, or annulment.
Stepfamily
Stepfamily: a family formed when one or both partners in a couple bring children from a previous relationship; also called blended family. Covers definitions, US prevalence (42% of adults report close stepfamily ties), dynamics, and child-outcome research.
Stepmother
Stepmother: a woman partnered to a child's biological parent, not the biological mother. Also called father-stepmother families. Key facts: 19% of US children with a stepparent lived with father and stepmother; stepmothers face role ambiguity, more conflict, and give less support than stepfathers.
Suicide of Atul Subhash
Atul Subhash, 34, a Bengaluru techie also called Subhash Atul, died by suicide on December 9, 2024, leaving a 24-page note and video accusing wife Nikita Singhania of harassment, false cases, and a Rs 3 crore extortion demand; an abetment FIR followed.
Susan Buffett
Susan Thompson Buffett (1932-2004), first wife of Warren Buffett, philanthropist, Berkshire Hathaway director, and president of the Buffett Foundation, renamed the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation after her death in Cody, Wyoming.
Swinging (sexual practice)
Swinging (wife-swapping, the lifestyle): a form of consensual non-monogamy where committed couples have sex with others, usually at organized events, without romantic bonds; distinct from polyamory and open relationships; documented from 1950s America, with 1982-2016 US demographic and sexual-health data.
Swipe interface
The swipe interface is a mobile interaction pattern introduced by Tinder: users drag profile cards right to like or left to reject, and a match opens chat only when both accept.
T. Cullen Davis
T. Cullen Davis (Thomas Cullen Davis, born 1933) is a Fort Worth oilman, son of "Stinky" Davis, tried and acquitted in the 1976 Mockingbird Lane mansion murders of Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and in murder-for-hire trials; never convicted.
Taya Kyle
Taya Kyle, also known through TACK-F and her memoir American Wife, is the widow of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle of American Sniper, a New York Times bestselling author, and founder of the Taya and Chris Kyle Foundation serving military and first-responder marriages.
Telugu wedding ceremony
Telugu wedding ceremony: the traditional Hindu marriage ritual of Telugu people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, also called pelli or kalyanam, defined by Jeelakarra Bellam, Mangalasutram, Talambralu, and Saptapadi at a late-night muhurtham.
Thananon Charnvirakul
Thananon Charnvirakul, nicknamed Ja, is the wife of Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul; she joins state visits to Vietnam, Malaysia, China, and Australia and hosts spousal cultural diplomacy.
The Five Love Languages
The Five Love Languages is Gary Chapman's 1992 relationship framework naming five ways of expressing love (words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch) with a claimed primary language; recent studies find limited empirical support.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists is Neil Strauss's 2005 nonfiction memoir, written under the pseudonym Style, about two years inside the seduction community with Mystery; a 3-million-copy bestseller that popularized pickup artistry.
The Tinder Swindler
The Tinder Swindler is a 2022 Netflix documentary by Felicity Morris about Shimon Hayut, aka Simon Leviev, who posed as a diamond billionaire's son on Tinder and defrauded women of millions.
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Thou shalt not commit adultery, the seventh commandment (Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18), prohibits sex with another man's wife or by a married woman outside marriage; biblical law punished it by death, later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions redefined its scope, and 90% of Americans still call affairs morally wrong.
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
Tiggy Legge-Bourke, now Alexandra Pettifer, was nanny to Princes William and Harry. In 2022 the BBC paid her substantial damages for Martin Bashir's fabricated affair and abortion claims used to obtain the 1995 Diana Panorama interview.