Relationships
'My Mother Saw Parenthood as an Affliction'
When she was eight years old, Leah McLaren’s mother left family life for a glamorous job in the city. In this extract from her memoir, Leah reflects on her mother's ambivalent feelings towards parenthood now that she herself is a mother.
How Parents Can Support Their Child Through an Eating Disorder
Throughout her late teen years, Megan Ravenhall found herself in the grip of an eating disorder. Though she feels she has still not fully recovered, Megan reflects on how her parents' support led her to ultimately choose life.
How to avoid a toxic man in midlife
Sometimes the most charming men are actually the ones you want to avoid like the plague writes Mairi Macleod
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Love Island, porn and Generation XXX
ITV's Love Island glorifies a culture of sex without feelings. But there is a very dark side to all this and it's time we addressed it writes Eleanor Mills.
How I gave up school gate politics
The actress Salima Saxton lost her way on the children's playground...until she ditched the Instagram mum lifestyle.
Adopting in midlife: It wasn't what I thought
Margaret Reynolds thought embarking on parenting in midlife would be a personal journey. It was so much more than that...
An alternative to Valentine's Day: Galentine's Day
Chrissy Iley loves Galentine's Day -- an antidote to 14 February and the requirements of Valentine's Day.
Poems for midlife
Allie Esiri's collection A Poet for Every Day of the Year features poems for life's big and little moments. We excerpt ones for empty nest, hope, love and more
Hormone Hell: two perimenopausal ladies on a canal boat...
In this extract from Rosie Wilby's 'The Breakup Monologues,' an enjoyable trip goes awry...
Hormone Hell
Four generations of Oxford women
The women in Eleanor Mills's have been going to Oxford for 4 generations. It's important, but not for the obvious reasons, she reveals.
