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Family

  • Illustration of a woman with a blue duvet wrapped around her, yawning, against a white background

    Why are yawns catching and how many clouds are there? Try our kids’ quiz

    Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes
  • 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

  • Unsympathetic - man woman illustration

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

  • illustration of woman cradling baby as she sits on what looks like a tiny island under her

    Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid. Has anything changed since?

  • 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?

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound: how could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

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  • Freddy McConnell

    We may have equal marriage – but LGBTQ+ people are still locked out of equal parenthood

    Freddy McConnell
  • Frances Ryan

    Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

    Frances Ryan
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    I’ve always been untidy. Nothing prepared me, however, for the mess having a child would make

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Adrian Chiles

    My Serbian bean stew sets pulses racing. The recipe? Oh, if you insist …

    Adrian Chiles
  • Adrian Chiles

    I slashed my unloved football – and 40 years later, I’m still living with the shame

    Adrian Chiles
  • Two children playing on a fence

    The Guardian view on universal credit: raising the level of benefits must be the priority

  • Bluey Heeler from TV series Bluey

    Bluey’s blockbuster episode hit a nerve for my family by casting moving house as difficult and scary

    Chloe Booker
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Advice

  • Unsympathetic - man woman illustration

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

  • ‘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

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

  • Saga home insurance website promising a good deal on insurance.

    Consumer champions
    Caring for the elderly? Not with Saga’s 220% price hike

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Love & sex

  • Trisha and Neil

    Blind date: ‘I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down’

  • 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

    An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers – now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestseller
  • ‘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

    Former Home and Away star Lukas Radovich was struggling to navigate a family crisis. Then Liam’s voice came loud and clear down the phone
  • 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

  • Harry and Jack standing together, smiling.

    Blind date in Sydney: ‘Tall, good-looking, shirt decidedly unbuttoned – my doubts vanished’

  • Steve and Lisa sitting in a coffee shop

    How we met: ‘It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time’

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