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Love & sex

  • Composite of a young heterosexual looking into each other's eyes, while in the background a man walks away.

    ‘We chose not to blow up our life’: readers on surviving infidelity

  • Painting: Anthony van Dyck Wooing his Model (1827) by Gustaaf Wappers.

    My partner concealed he had more than one ex-wife. Should I be nervous about our future?

    This omission demonstrates a troubling facility with concealment, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. To move forward, you need to be satisfied there are no more big surprises
  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

    I love her and my children, but have fallen for another man. What can I do? I’m now suffering from gastrointestinal problems and using alcohol to get to sleep
  • Molly Roden Winter shot for OM

    ‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage

  • ‘It occurred to me that this man was going to be in my life forever’ … Lukas Radovich, left, and Liam Forcadilla in Sydney in February

    The moment I knew: his voice on speaker made me laugh – and broke my family’s haze of grief

  • illustration of older people being intimate

    This is how we do it: ‘I’ve had more sex in the past two years than in the rest of my life’

  • Cassie Werber looking over her husband David’s shoulder

    My husband is my co-parent, friend and lover – but he isn’t the only person I have sex with: the inside story of an open marriage

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Blind date

  • Sonia and Stefan next to each other.

    Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? In public? Heavens, no, we’re British! But we did have a warm goodbye hug’

  • Sam and Zillah next to each other.

    Blind date: ‘I spilled salsa roja down my cleavage. He looked away as I cleaned it off. Gentleman’

  • Hywel & Leah Blind Date

    Blind date: ‘She tells a great story. One of them is ripe for an eight-part Netflix series’

  • Saturday magazine Blind Date MARCH 23 2024 Jordy & Luke

    Blind date: ‘We got brain freeze from our rum slushies, but tried to hide it’

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Relationships

  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

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    Ask Philippa
    As an immigrant I’m undervalued, and my wife has no sympathy

  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    Sexual healing
    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

  • Unsympathetic - man woman illustration

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My brother bullied me, which has had a lifelong impact. Can I build bridges with him now?

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