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At 61 I found love again - on a dating app I swore I'd never use
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (453+ words) Here's to open hearts and second chances Love in later life can feel like a movie plot: a second chance after the judge's hammer has dropped on earlier romances. Yet as the new West End revival of the play Shadowlands…...
It's not how you tell kids you're divorcing that matters - it's what happens next
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (1055+ words) HOW I PARENT Staying friends with my wife helped our son deal with the divorce Welcome to'The i Paper's opinion series,'How I Parent,'in which our writers open up about how they tackle challenges of raising their children in…...
I don't regret leaving my husband when he had a stroke
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (1025+ words) All I could see ahead of me was a life of looking after this person who I no longer loved I had been married for nearly 40 years when my husband became ill. We were a very active couple with no underlying…...
Why more people are paying investigators to snoop on their future spouses
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (1090+ words) Meet the private detectives in India who are being hired to spy on prospective husbands and wives When Bharat, a data analyst from Delhi, met a "really beautiful and really charming" woman on a matrimonial website, he thought he had…...
The secret love letters lost to history - until now
1+ week, 6+ day ago (608+ words) A new exhibition reveals heart-rending missives about passion and longing from down the centuries - some of which never arrived Formed just over 20 years ago following the merger of four government departments, the National Archives combines the longstanding expertise of bodies…...
Sex was making my life chaotic - so I gave it up for six months
2+ week, 2+ day ago (547+ words) If Lenny Kravitz could manage almost a decade without it while being a generational sex symbol, surely I could do half a year I love sex. I'd frankly like to be having more of it. What could be better? The…...
After 19 years my wife stopped kissing me goodnight, I don't think she loves me
2+ week, 2+ day ago (899+ words) 'It's like getting blood out of a stone sometimes,' a reader tells The i Paper's Agony Uncle in this week's dilemma I've been married to my wife for 19 years. During that time we've supported each other through the grief of…...
Divorce is bad for Britain, but nobody wants to say it
2+ week, 4+ day ago (637+ words) The bonds of love and trust are precious and fragile Two couples I know, both in their forties, are splitting up. The decisions were made in early, gloomy January. They have kids and are feeling guilt, anger, sorrow, regret, loss…...
The worst thing about marriage is socialising with other couples
2+ week, 5+ day ago (433+ words) There's a small amount of conversational fodder, but too many topics are off limits and you don't know what they are When I was a child I thought socialising in couples was just what you did when you were a…...
I regret leaving my husband for my lover
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1023+ words) I thought the grass was greener but it isn't. I often look back at my marriage and wish I did things differently I had been married for seven years when I met John. I was at the office Christmas party....