Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Love & sex

  • Did you confess your feelings for your best friend after watching When Harry Met Sally?

    Tell us: have you been inspired to declare your love inspired by a piece of art?

  • A man in a white T-shirt looks troubled as he reclines on a sofa with arms behind his head

    Should I stay with my partner – despite the dull, dispassionate sex?

    I don’t need to swing from the rafters, but I do need something more than moderately paced sex in the missionary position ...
  • Eoin O’Dwyer (right) and Mitch (left) at their wedding at Cashel Palace Hotel, Ireland

    The moment I knew: he bared his soul in a performance and I fell for his sensitive side

    When Mitch launched into a piano recital at his birthday party, his friends were gobsmacked by his hidden talent. Eoin O’Dwyer knew he was the man he had to marry
  • ‘Some of us fall into wild, ecstatic infatuations that feel like a different operational mode for the brain’: Tom Bellamy.

    What happens when love tips over into the infatuated state of ‘limerence’?

  • GUARDIAN TIHWDI 102 WEB copy

    This is how we do it: ‘If one of us is on a business trip and meets someone, we’re free to pursue it’

  • 12April Blind Date for web Bridget & Sacha

    Blind date: ‘I was in the bathroom when she arrived – the maitre d’ thought I’d done a runner’

  • Painting: The Orange Trees (Les Orangers) by Gustave Caillebotte (1878)

    My husband is always on his iPad. I miss him. How can I ask for screen-free time together?

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
  • Monique and Ian

    Blind date in Cologne: ‘He walked me to my car. Unfortunately, I had parked very close by’

  • BlindDate

    Blind date: ‘I wish I hadn’t said the lighting made me feel like I was going for a smear test’

  • A composite of Emily and Jack

    Blind date: ‘He said I looked like Kate Moss, then went, “No, wait, Kate Bush – I still fancy her though!”’

  • Adrian and Catherine

    Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? After the night we had, it would’ve been rude not to’

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
  • Brandon and Christine.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘We’re like two pieces of a puzzle clicking together’

  • Man read newspapers

    Ask Philippa
    I’m nearly 60, but my father’s indifference towards me still stings

  • A man in a white T-shirt looks troubled as he reclines on a sofa with arms behind his head

    Sexual healing
    Should I stay with my partner – despite the dull, dispassionate sex?

  • An illustration of a woman from behind on an orange background

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My father threw out my box of memories, then took his own life. How do I move on?

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed