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  • Painting: The dispute at cards by Jan Steen

    My sister-in-law is nearly 40 but cannot handle losing at board games. What can I do?

    A game is not a moral exemption to your usual self. Sometimes the best way to puncture ‘it’s just a game’ is to show people that you’re judging them in reality
  • Man in a park holding a book

    The one change that worked: I told the men in my life I loved them – and my world opened up

  • A man in a suit scatters ashes from a copper urn onto grass

    Where to scatter ashes – and where you can donate your body for medical research

  • Natasha Bedingfield wearing a bright-red tracksuit, standing in a garden in 1984

    Natasha Bedingfield looks back: ‘I had hits in the US that weren’t released in England. It was like being banished’

  • Greg Wise photographed for The Guardian by Cian Oba-Smith

    Greg Wise on how he and Emma Thompson coped with failed IVF: ‘We hit an existential crisis – she was not a proper woman and I was not a proper man’

  • Department for Work and Pensions sign

    The Guardian view on supporting carers: the DWP’s problem is deeper than IT

    Editorial: A taper is much better than a cliff-edge. But problems with carer’s allowance should have been solved years ago
  • A smiling woman wearing headphones lies on a patterned rug surrounded by scattered CDs

    double quotation markI used to think I had impeccable taste in music. My kids taught me to stop being a snob

    Myke Bartlett
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    double quotation markDon’t call me ‘mumsy’ – the contempt behind that word makes me livid

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markAttention LaMelo Ball: only losers boast about avoiding diaper duty

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Two cumquats attached to their leaves

    double quotation markSince my daughter moved out of home, my household has shrunk. A yearly tradition brings us together

    Nova Weetman
  • An illustration of a woman facing away with her arms crossed

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I gave my ex our house and half my savings, but now I feel resentful

  • A smiling woman with straight dark hair in a light orange sleeveless top and trousers, and a smiling man with dark hair in a white T-shirt.

    Blind date
    Blind date: ‘We overstayed our welcome – the waiters were shaking the cutlery drawer really loudly’

  • A tiny doctor with clipboard and pen holds two giant naked figures apart.

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘Our fertility doctor told us we were having too much sex’

  • Australian actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning in 1998

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: I admitted I had a crush on her. She replied, ‘Well, that’s good. Isn’t it?’

Love & sex

  • Patrick Lenton

    double quotation markMy phone thinks my boyfriend is my ‘best friend’. It’s not alone

    Patrick Lenton
    Being in a same-sex relationship can make you weirdly invisible. Queer identity shouldn’t be treated as abnormal
  • An illustration looking down on someone holding up a smartphone surrounded by speech bubbles with microphone icons and sound waves

    You be the judge: Should my girlfriend stop sending me 10-minute voice notes?

  • Rebecca Shaw

    double quotation markG Flip and Chrishell Stause have broken up, and like many in the queer community, I’m in mourning

    Rebecca Shaw
  • A man and woman eat at a table, rendered in black-and-white with colourful illustrated clothing and swirls

    The kindness of strangers: After a tearful breakup dinner, another patron paid our bill

  • Couple sat on beach in winter looking out to seaPosed by models
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    Tell us: have you found new love after the age of 60?

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