If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Elizabeth Weil wondered if she and her husband Dan could improve their nine-year union with couples and sex therapy – but what exactly would that mean?There are things about my husband that drive me crazy. Last spring he cut apart [...]
Nearly five years after her teenage daughter was murdered, Mary Foley has forgiven her killer. The alternative, she says, was to let hatred and anger destroy her own lifeThe first time I meet Mary Foley she is addressing a rapt group of 15- and 16-year-olds in a humanities class on forgiveness. Tall, handsome and quietly [...]
Join Miranda Sawyer and studio guest Jay Rayner, Observer food critic, gourmand and father of two, for the first edition of The Family Podcast from the Guardian. Follow Miranda as she noses around the house …
When Tiffany Murray was six, her mother decided to rent their country house as a rehearsal space for rock bands, including Queen, Motörhead and BauhausI stood in the fishpond, naked, as the lorry made the turn up our drive. I was six years old, a rural child, and naked in the fishpond was the norm. [...]
Post your advice below. The best responses will be published in G2 next FridayMy son is on the Aspergers spectrum and was saving to buy a house when his girlfriend of four months announced she was pregnant. He proposed, but after a row they split. There is evidence to suggest she is unstable and wanted a [...]
As Labour and the Tories battle to be the most family friendly party, a course for new parents to prevent marriage breakups is gaining attention. But how far should the state intervene?In the weeks after the birth of their first child, Rachel and Richard Savage, struck down by the crushing exhaustion that comes with tending [...]
The results of the latest British Social Attitudes survey show that we’re more liberal about gay rights; yet more Conservative about our politics. Get the results here, and find out how Europe comparesIf you want to find out how Britain has changed, you can’t do much better than the latest British Social Attitudes survey.Each year [...]
What is it really like to be ambidextrous? The ambidextrous mother of two children who also have the ability to use both hands equally relates her experienceHarry Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Baden-Powell, Benjamin Franklin and Johnny Wilkinson were (or are) all ambidextrous, defined as being able to use both hands with equal facility. But [...]
Piper Weiss’s blog celebrates the beauty and fashion choices of readers’ mothers in their heydayTucked into a corner of my mirror is a black-and-white photo of my mother looking so glamorous I can’t believe we are related. Taken in Brazil in 1970, it shows her leaning against a wall in Rio de Janeiro, all glossy [...]
Anglican vicar Peter Owen Jones was adopted and grew up fantasising about his birth mother, but eventually he traced her and they met. Now he has written her a heartfelt letter …Dear Joan, I am not sure that parents should protect their children from pain – it is as inevitable as morning – although maybe [...]