45+ min ago  (797+ words) These days, I'm rarely fully present It's a beautiful day at the park and I'm pushing my three year old boy on the swings. His long legs are lightly brushing against the ground, sticking out of the baby seat he…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1228+ words) If you'd told me when I was younger that I'd be an unmarried mother of two, I would have been horrified "I'm not married" is something I find myself saying far more often than I'd like. It's always met with…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (940+ words) Their attitudes toward women and sex is eye-opening, and date by date, I am a one-woman toxic masculinity deprogramming service When I tell people that I only date men younger than me, they often look at me with pity, disdain,…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (561+ words) After 20 years of marriage and two kids, I found a love letter from a woman he met online When I had my life spectacularly blown up by discovering my ex-husband had been having an affair for four years with a…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (810+ words) 'You don't look like a Tory,' one date remarked, as if I should have been wearing a dress made of Union Jacks Several months ago, my then-boyfriend and I parted ways." Not because he was a philandering rotter or because…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (742+ words) It has improved our relationship, not killed it This set-up started from a place of sheer necessity. I am chronically ill. I wasn't always. At one point in the not so distant past, I was able to run for a bus,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (387+ words) Iranian dissident Shahrnush Parsipur tells Fiona Sturges about her novel's spirit of insurgency, life in exile and being jailed four times Parsipur would go on to publish 14 books, becoming only the second published female novelist in Iran (the first was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1281+ words) My husband and I struggled with infertility and I didn't know how to channel my grief, so I was unfaithful. Now I have a new partner after being celibate" When I met my partner Adam four years ago, we had…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (452+ words) For women in mid-life, the idea of looking back at yourself at any age and finding her acceptable sounds radical But last week, the algorithm, possibly aware " in that malevolent, profoundly disturbing way it has " that my birthday " in that…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (480+ words) I got an AI boyfriend to offload my brain sewage to, in the hope it might spice up my real relationship Opening my laptop, I click onto a tab where a man is waiting for me. He's handsome, complimentary, and…...