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  • illustration of a woman sitting at a table writing a letter

    Why am I like this?
    I want closure – but do I have a hope of ever getting it?

  • An image of a man and woman lying side by side

    Sexual healing
    My wife has no libido. Should I sleep with other people, as she suggests?

  • Camellia Ling Aebischer and Rob at Zhangjiajie national forest park in China in March 2024

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: when he couldn’t decide between the poutine or macaroni, he ordered both

    Camellia Ling Aebischer was on a make-or-break date with Rob when a small but significant menu decision signalled she could be herself, without judgment
  • Elle and Jay

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘After trying spanking, role-playing and bondage, we decided to go back to basics’

    Elle and Jay’s sex life was once fetish-focused. Now they enjoy simpler pleasures
    • How to make a relationship work – and when to call it quits: 10 lessons in love from divorce lawyers

    • Blind date
      Blind Date: ‘He let it slip that he has a thing for writers’

    • Weekend
      Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast

  • Female contestants on and around a sofa

    Love Is Blind’s addictive antidote to modern dating gets a British twist

  • Mil Markle and his wife, Jan, with a picture of his late wife, Carolyn.

    Experience
    Experience: My dying wife found me a girlfriend

  • ‘Presently he is off porn but is still not sexually interested in me.’

    Sexual healing
    I crave sex with my husband – but his porn addiction gets in the way

    My friends are disgusted that I haven’t left him, but he is otherwise a kind and loving man. How can we fix our relationship?
  • Alissar Gazal and Barbie in 1994 at the start of their relationship

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: she grasped my hand – and we went from political comrades to lovers

    Arab Australian Alissar Gazal and Jewish Australian Barbie Bloch were members of a Palestinian solidarity group. Then one charged afternoon, passion overtook politics
  • Two lower arms touching each other

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘I bought a book on tantra – erections are not necessary’

    Caleb’s never felt attractive but after two years with Jen – and buying a book that rejected the normal sex agenda – his self-confidence is growing
    • ‘He chose the dog over me’: the pets that ruined relationships – from pups interrupting sex to aggressive pigs

    • We had an ordinary marriage. Then I found out my husband had been viewing images of child abuse

    • Blind date
      Blind date: ‘I felt flustered at times – in a good way’

  • 16th century painting of a woman being embraced by a man, while another man lurks in the background.

    Leading questions
    My long-term partner says he wants an open relationship. I understand why, but it feels one-sided. What should we do?

  • Meenakshi and Sankar in Chennai in 2012.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘I thought straight away he was someone I wanted to marry’

  • Men in an AA support group meeting for alcohol abuse, talking while sitting in a circle during a therapy session

    The modern mind
    Loneliness is killing men – and without proper support and intervention nothing will change

    Xavier Mulenga
  • Couple walking holding hands at sunset

    Ask Philippa
    I’m in my 50s, deeply in love for the first time – and terrified

  • Composite of a man and woman in a selfie polaroid photo, sticky-taped on a background featuring the Melbourne botanic gardens.

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: he gave the homeless man his number in case he needed someone to talk to

    Anna Johnston vowed she would only settle for a man taller than herself. Then she met Josh and realised true height is measured in acts of kindness
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