Relationships

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...

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.

My name is Minreet. It's racist to get it wrong

There is still no place in multi-cultural Britain for names that don't have an Anglo-Saxon heritage.

Porn for kids is not the answer. Better sex ed is

Teen girls think it is normal to be choked or throttled during a snog

The pornification of teenlife

Why I'm childfree by choice

It's a less typical road to choose not to have children. But it's a path that can be embraced, says Kerensa Jennings

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Things can only get better… 

Linda Kelsey found midlife incredibly difficult. Now, almost 70, she sends us a postcard from our futures

10 sex toys for women in midlife

Whether you have a partner or are flying solo, these 10 sex toys and aids can make life more pleasurable

What monkeys can teach us about dating

An evolutionary biologist reveals 5 lessons she learned about relationships from studying monkeys

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