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Love & sex

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    You be the judge: should my girlfriend change the way she bags her supermarket shopping?

    Dougie and Teresa don’t see eye to eye when it comes to supermarket packing. You decide whose argument checks out
  • A man and woman smile at the camera as they wrap their arms around each other.

    Placeholder partners: are you ‘the one’ – or just being used as a stopgap?

  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markI went to a 25th wedding anniversary – and had a revelation about relationships

    Zoe Williams
  • illustration of child cradled in protective hands

    This is how we do it: ‘I love the idea of only knowing one person intimately for the rest of my life’

  • Kathering Scholes and Roger hugging one another near a fence under a blue sky in Launceston, Tasmania in 1982

    The moment I knew: in the Tasmanian wilderness, we lay next to each other in the dark. It felt like now or never

  • A dark-haired man with arms crossed and finger on chin, and a dark-haired woman smiling at camera with arms crossed

    Blind date: ‘It was truly a great first date’

  • Brian and Jeanette posing together for Blind Date

    Blind date: ‘I might have confused him with my international lifestyle’

  • Man in red jumper, woman with scarf and blue/green top.

    Blind date: ‘He looked at me, 5ft, and said he was looking for someone around 5ft 6in’

  • A smiling young man with wavy brown hair wearing a brown jumper, and a smiling young woman with shoulder-length wavy brown hair wearing a cream blouse with black spots.

    Blind date: ‘I could tell we were going to click right away’

This is how we do it

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  • Illustration of pair of legs pointing into the air, with colorful children's alpahabet blocks floating in pink space

    This is how we do it: ‘My orgasms have become more intense since I had a baby’

  • Illustration of a male couple suspended above a giant finger with red nailpaint on

    This is how we do it: ‘I worried that he’d miss having sex with women’

  • Illustration of couple having sex clutching on to a rope

    This is how we do it: ‘We’re more adventurous now – I’ve discovered my animalistic side’

  • An outreached hand with a small man walking up the arm holding sex toys.

    This is how we do it: ‘His cancer diagnosis hit the reset button – we’ve built up quite the collection of toys’

  • An illustration of a man and a woman facing away from each other with their arms crossed

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’ve spent 20 years treading water and fear that I’ve wasted so much time. Am I depressed?

  • Jack and Heather looking at each other

    Blind date
    Blind date: ‘She claimed she was usually shy. I wouldn’t have guessed’

  • illustration of child cradled in protective hands

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘I love the idea of only knowing one person intimately for the rest of my life’

  • Brandon and Christine.

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

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