Category: Broad relationship and intimacy topics

• 5 Reasons Married People Fall Hardest for Other Married People

  Ask anyone who has spent a few months on a married dating site what actually surprised them, and you tend to get a version of the same answer. Not the meeting up. Not the nerves in the car park. It’s how quickly they felt understood by a total stranger. Rebecca from Chester put it better…

• Why You Can Tell a Stranger Things You’d Never Tell Your Husband

  People assume intimacy and honesty travel together. Twenty years of marriage, the logic goes, should buy you the right to say anything to the person sleeping beside you. They know your mother, your medical history, the exact way you take your tea. Surely they’re the safest possible place for the difficult stuff? And yet. Ask…

• Why an Old Flame Can Undo You Faster Than a Stranger Ever Could

  There’s a particular kind of message that arrives on an ordinary Tuesday night and changes nothing and everything at once. “Is this still you?” Three words, from a name you haven’t seen in twenty years. And suddenly you’re not standing in your kitchen in Guildford with the dishwasher humming and the school bags by the…

• From the First Baby to the Empty Nest: What Actually Happens to a Couple’s Sex Life

  Nobody hands you a timeline on your wedding day. There’s no leaflet tucked into the order of service explaining that the way you want each other at 28 will look nothing like the way you want each other at 48, and that the shift will happen so slowly you’d struggle to name the year anything…