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  • 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

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

  • Eoin O’Dwyer (right) and Mitch (left) at their wedding at Cashel Palace Hotel, Ireland

    The moment I knew
    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.

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

    A neuroscientist decided to study the addiction-like obsession of limerence, while overcoming it himself
    • Elton John and Madonna have made up, but why do famous people publicly go to war?

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

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

  • a couple on a couch splitting in half

    Would a couples therapist ever tell you to break up?

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

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

  • Two women, one stroking a dog

    Sexual healing
    My wife and I are suffering ‘lesbian bed death’. Is there any way back?

    It’s 13 years since we had sex. My libido has come roaring back – but she’s not interested
  • Composite for Moment I Knew featuring two holiday snaps of Angelina Thomson and Lachlan Dearing

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: when he said I love you, it took me days to build up the nerve to respond

    Despite her instant attraction to Lachlan Dearing, Angelina Thomson was lost for words when he declared his feelings for her. Then she plucked up the courage to say it back
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    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘Trying for a baby has improved our sex life – we’re more adventurous’

    Doug and Maggie feel as if they’ve had a relationship reset and are communicating more openly about sex
  • Monique and Ian

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

    Monique, 50, who works for the UN, meets Ian, 52, an English teacher
  • Alone-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m 16 and I like a boy, but I have no social skills and don’t know what to do

  • illustration – boy sitting on a bench and spitting

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my boyfriend stop spitting in public?

  • Couple arguing at home

    ‘Heteropessimism’ didn’t spring from nowhere

    Letters: Josephine Grahl advises looking at the labour burden placed on women and how social structures enforce this. Brid Connolly recalls Marge Piercy’s novel Body of Glass
  • refection of couple kissing

    Affairs by Juliet Rosenfeld review – the truth about why we cheat

    A psychotherapist explores the nature of infidelity through a series of case studies
  • Married at First Sight,  S12 DP8 Carina and Paul

    I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment’ to the test. The results are stark

    Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
    I’ve become addicted to the show. But as a scientist I wonder: how many couples actually stay together?
  • An image of a woman texting  with a smile on her face

    Sexual healing
    Sexting an old friend was exciting – but now I can’t face sleeping with my husband

    The virtual sex life I enjoyed with someone else only made me realise what was missing at home. How can I make my marriage work again?

March 2025

  • Bare feet of a man and a woman peeking out from under white blanket

    Love, actually: how intimacy survives marriage and motherhood

    Saman Shad
    The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving forms
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