Relationships

‘I didn’t expect anything to change’: what makes long-term de facto couples decide to marry?

Why tie the knot with someone you have lived with for years – and what happens next? Three women share their stories

Sarah Ayoub

27, Apr, 2024 @8:00 PM

This is how we do it: ‘Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure’

With penetrative sex no longer an option, Sebastian and Teresa have found different ways to satisfy one other

As told to Naomi Larsson Piñeda

27, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

Blind date: ‘I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down’

Trisha, 61, a yoga teacher, meets Neil, 65, a meditation teacher

27, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM

‘We chose not to blow up our life’: readers on surviving infidelity

The sexual wanderings of a partner don’t always spell the end. Readers share their experiences of how their relationship triumphed in the face of infidelity

As told to Doosie Morris

26, Apr, 2024 @3:00 PM

My partner concealed he had more than one ex-wife. Should I be nervous about our future? | Leading questions

This omission demonstrates a troubling facility with concealment, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. To move forward, you need to be satisfied there are no more big surprises

Eleanor Gordon-Smith

25, Apr, 2024 @11:43 PM

The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

I love her and my children, but have fallen for another man. What can I do? I’m now suffering from gastrointestinal problems and using alcohol to get to sleep

Pamela Stephenson Connolly

23, Apr, 2024 @7:00 AM

‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage

An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers – now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestseller

Michael Segalov

21, Apr, 2024 @9:00 AM

The moment I knew: his voice on speaker made me laugh – and broke my family’s haze of grief

Former Home and Away star Lukas Radovich was struggling to navigate a family crisis. Then Liam’s voice came loud and clear down the phone

Lukas Radovich

20, Apr, 2024 @8:00 PM

This is how we do it: ‘I’ve had more sex in the past two years than in the rest of my life’

Violet and Oliver met in their 70s – and are both revelling in their uninhibited, experimental sex life

As told told to Kitty Drake

20, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

Blind date in Sydney: ‘Tall, good-looking, shirt decidedly unbuttoned – my doubts vanished’

Harry (left), 26, a supply planner, meets Jack, 27, a dictionary editor

20, Apr, 2024 @2:00 AM

How we met: ‘It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time’

Steve, 65, and Lisa, 67, met in the mid-90s on an early online messaging system while on opposite sides of the Atlantic. They now live together near Cambridge

Lizzie Cernik

18, Apr, 2024 @10:57 AM