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Family

  • 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?

    Filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on being crowned ‘The Beast’ by fellow pupils – and how her parents suggested a radical solution
  • 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

  • Confused-01

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

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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
  • Ammar Kalia

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

    Ammar Kalia
  • Mother and son playing with lego on carpet in living room

    From inheritance age to a calamity clause: what should I consider when making a will as a parent?

    Lucille Wong
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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

  • Australian mother of two young children in her family home participating in domestic life activities<br>Posed by models Single Mother with her daughter and son at home playing, working and involved in domestic duties.

    Ask Philippa
    I’m angry that my mum was always so absent. How can I find peace?

  • 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

  • Elle and Jay

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

  • Blind Date comp Anwit Pandit &amp; 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

    Actor Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s; sundresses and rugged self-sufficiency: the ‘tradwives’ trend touts a conservative American past that didn’t exist; and one man’s extraordinary story of embracing the dating world with the help of his terminally partner.
  • 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

  • Illustration of a woman and man stood on a laptop with the man looking at the screen and the woman with her head in her hands

    We had an ordinary marriage. Then I found out my husband had been viewing images of child abuse

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