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Most people who date discreetly think in terms of the next twenty-four hours. Delete the messages, clear the browser, park round the corner, be home by six. And that’s sensible enough. It’s how the overwhelming majority of people manage it perfectly well for years. But phones aren’t only interested in tonight. They’re archivists. They sort, […]
Ask most people which marriage is in more trouble, the one where the couple row twice a week or the one where nobody’s raised their voice since 2019, and they’ll point at the rowing couple every time. Slammed doors. The sulk that lasts till Thursday. The “fine” that means anything but. That looks like a […]
There’s a fortnight every September when an allotment makes a man look like a genius. The beans come all at once, the tomatoes finally turn, and Graham, 57, from Chesterfield, walks up the hill most evenings to plot 12 with a carrier bag and a legitimate reason to be out of the house. His wife […]
Marilyn Monroe has a lot to answer for. The Seven Year Itch gave the feeling its name in 1955, and seven decades later it remains the one piece of marriage folklore everyone can recite without thinking. Somewhere around the seventh anniversary, so the story goes, the shine wears off, the eye starts wandering, and a […]
Alison told her husband on a Tuesday evening in March, after the dishwasher was stacked and before the ten o’clock news. Twenty-three years married. Two children safely through university. A kitchen extension finished the previous spring, which he would later point to as evidence that everything had been fine — because who builds a kitchen […]
Dear Mia, My affair partner and I agreed to go quiet for the summer holidays. Six weeks, kids at home, a family fortnight in Cornwall — there was simply no safe way to keep messaging, and we both knew it. We said we’d pick things up in September, and at the time it felt sensible. […]