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Family

  • Man on bench

    My big brother used to beat me up. Now I’m scared of being loved

    Begin the process of forming a trusting relationship with a therapist, says Philippa Perry, and create a ‘chosen family’ with friends who care about and respect you
  • Desiree Akhavan - American filmmaker, writer and actress. Hair and Make up by Alanna Chelmick.

    I was voted ‘ugliest girl’ at my high school. Would a nose job change my life?

  • Frank Skinner in 2024

    Frank Skinner looks back: ‘I liked being famous – I felt noticed for the first time. But at some point it has to end’

  • Saturday magazine Lifestyle Divorce feature

    How to make a relationship work – and when to call it quits: 10 lessons in love from divorce lawyers

  • Illustration of the globe with a red and white name badge sticker on it, reading "Hello, my name is Earth"

    Who gave Earth its name and what is a blood moon? Try our kids’ quiz

  • tim dowling collage

    Tim Dowling: I thought my dad would live for ever. I was wrong

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Opinion

  • Viv Groskop

    The hunt for a missing date, the numbers I’ll never forget: we’ll never match the magic of a landline

    Viv Groskop
  • Stuart Heritage

    A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

    Stuart Heritage
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    When is inconsolable crying a sign of something worse? Parents aren’t getting the advice they need

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Emma Armstrong

    I used to apologise for my unruly children – but there’s no shame in being a working mother

    Emma Armstrong
  • Jonathan Kennedy

    Men are spending more time looking after their children – and it’s not just cultural, it’s in their genes

    Jonathan Kennedy
  • Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. (L to R) Meesha Garbett as Hortensia, Charlie Hodson-Prior as Bruce Bogtrotter in Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. Cr. Dan Smith © 2022

    My young son has the makings of a marvellous actor…

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Ammar Kalia

    After our mum died, we maxed out the credit cards and went on safari in the Serengeti

    Ammar Kalia
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Advice

  • Confused-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m jealous of my husband’s relationship with his sister

  • ‘Presently he is off porn but is still not sexually interested in me.’

    Sexual healing
    I crave sex with my husband – but his porn addiction gets in the way

  • Man on bench

    Ask Philippa
    My big brother used to beat me up. Now I’m scared of being loved

  • Google offices in the UK but making contact may result in crossed wires.

    Consumer champions
    Google listed my restaurant’s number as its British HQ

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Love & sex

  • Camellia Ling Aebischer and Rob at Zhangjiajie national forest park in China in March 2024

    The moment I knew: when he couldn’t decide between the poutine or macaroni, he ordered both

  • Elle and Jay

    This is how we do it: ‘After trying spanking, role-playing and bondage, we decided to go back to basics’

    Elle and Jay’s sex life was once fetish-focused. Now they enjoy simpler pleasures
  • Blind Date comp Anwit Pandit & Kassondra Cloos

    Blind Date: ‘He let it slip that he has a thing for writers’

    Anwit, 32, a scientist, meets Kassondra, 33, a travel writer
  • Jeff Goldblum smiling, behind a table full of orange flowers

    Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast

  • Alissar Gazal and Barbie in 1994 at the start of their relationship

    The moment I knew: she grasped my hand – and we went from political comrades to lovers

  • Two lower arms touching each other

    This is how we do it: ‘I bought a book on tantra – erections are not necessary’

  • A brown and white spotty dog with its head on one side, against a purple background

    ‘He chose the dog over me’: the pets that ruined relationships – from pups interrupting sex to aggressive pigs

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