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 [...]
Ever wondered why your friends seem so much more popular than you are? There’s a reason for thatThis is going to be awkward, but someone has to tell you, so it may as well be me: you’re kind of a loser. You know that feeling you sometimes have that your friends have more friends than you? You’re right. [...]
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 [...]
I feel insecure and rejectedAt the start of our two-year relationship, my partner wanted sex all the time. I was battling with an eating disorder, so didn’t always feel the same way. We had sex regularly and it was mostly great, although I do find it painful more often than not. Now, the tables [...]
There’s nothing like a Hollywood breakup to bring people togetherBrad and Angelina. The flowering of their relationship was shrouded in secrecy. The withering of their relationship is similarly gnomic. I particularly liked Angelina’s confession that when she was nursing her crush on Brad, during the filming of Mr & Mrs Smith (left) – previously denied [...]
My lover is 17 years younger than me, and I don’t mind being compared to a powerful, sleek animalSo I’m a cougar, a 60-year-old woman with a 43-year-old male lover. And although, as Hadley Freeman rightly said in her G2 column last week, it’s a bit off calling women by animal names, I like the [...]
Author claims that over-30s would be happier if they settled for Mr Not BadWomen looking for a Mr Right should give up after 30 and settle for a Mr Second Best or a Mr Right Now.Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr Good Enough, which is published in the UK [...]
My life is going very well, but I often lie awake terrified about death and running through a checklist of all the things I haven’t done yet. How can I appreciate what I have?The dilemma I am a 28-year-old woman in a happy relationship with a caring man whom I’m planning to marry, [...]
Does the way we sleep reveal the true nature of our relationships, wonders Tim Dowling, while writers and celebrities reveal their bedroom secrets• In pictures: which position do you sleep in?It’s one of the first things to go in the war of attrition between romance and pragmatism – the idea of spending all night nose to [...]
There are children you can’t help but dislike, and usually, when their parents come in for parents’ evening, you find out whyI have to be strict when the naughty kids talk back to me but, secretly, they’re my favourites. There’s one boy in my class who draws amazing pictures across his notebooks when he’s bored. [...]