Relationships
What my week of coping with death showed me
This week for Eleanor Mills was one of family illness and the funeral of a friend. The depth of sadness also teaches us something valuable, she says
How to cope with empty nest syndrome
It can be difficult when your child leaves home. Here's how to cope with empty nest syndrome ... and make the most of what comes next.
Coping as an empty nester: 'Stuck with one foot in the past and one in the future'
Being an empty nester means feeling discombobulated, stuck with one foot in the past and one in the future. Eleanor Mills is trying to enjoy both
I left my husband for a woman
Liz Moseley had a creeping sense that something was wrong in her carefully constructed middle class life. And then she met Suzie on a Woman's March...
Coming out as gay: Married, an affair and then
VG Lee married her first boyfriend at 18, and though she could sense something was wrong, it wouldn't be until nearly 20 years after that that she could explore her true identity.
How to manage Christmas with a loved one with dementia
The busyness and general chaos of Christmas is wonderful, but can also be overwhelming for all of us. That’s even more true for people living with dementia. Here’s how to help them make it as enjoyable and safe as possible.
’We had drifted apart, but I never forgot her. How could I?
Was it chance or serendipity that led Jane Corry to an unexpected and moving reunion?
Helen Paris and Leslie Hill
“We have experienced being looked through, looked past or hidden away entirely”
As a young lesbian woman in the eighties, there were no older women couples Helen Paris could look as role models. Now married to her partner of 27 years, she questions whether lesbian couples are any more visible and recognised all these decades later.
Nesting co-parenting after divorce
When Beth Behrendt and her husband divorced they never imagined the temporary parenting arrangement they came to for their sons would be so beneficial to them all they’d still be doing it nearly a decade later.
Welcome to the parent grief club
When Kerensa Jennings’ beloved mum died, she became a member of a club she never knew existed or wanted to join, and was left wondering why more people don’t talk about the special searing grief of losing a parent.
