Sex & Relationships

When divorce coach Naomi Douglas tells people what she does for a living she almost always gets the same response: “You must be busy.” Like the wedding planner and life coach of the nineties, divorce coaching is one of those job titles that provokes a scoff and an eyebrow raise from the unacquainted, but it’s […]

It’s the burning question that has plagued women for centuries: how attractive am I to men? Thankfully, Esquire magazine published a helpful quiz to answer this very question in 1940. The quiz, written by men, tells the 40s girl exactly why she is still single, and how to go about getting married immediately. So where […]

For around three decades (give or take) you have your name. It’s yours: it’s the one you were given the day you entered the world, the one on your passport, your driver’s licence and all those damn online shopping sites that keep sending you pesky (yet tempting…) emails. Oh, and it makes up your email […]

It is one of the most dreaded feelings we can experience — returning to work after a holiday and although it may make us feel challenged to head back to work, a leading expert says for some it can be a lot harder. Workplace psychology expert Dr Mary Casey, who runs the health and education […]

When it comes to having a happy and healthy relationship that can last the distance, there’s no secret, in fact the key is to keep it simple. The latest divorce and marriage statistics from the Australian Bauera of Statistics show that divorce in Australia increased by 1.6 percent between 2009 and 2010. But while the […]

When 28-year-old Ryan Miller proposed to Lindsay Saunders, 19, in August last year, the loved-up Texas couple decided they would wait until the time was right to get married. But when doctors noticed an ominous mass in Ryan’s right lung in August this year their walk down the aisle became a race against time. Ryan […]

She shares a name with one of Jane Austen greatest romantic heroines, and now UK woman Elizabeth Bennett is the star of her very own epic love story. Last weekend, Elizabeth, 25, tied the knot with Brian Woodward, 26, a man she met when he dialled a wrong number nine years ago. It was a […]

David Bowie was famous for his womanising ways but his son Duncan Jones is much more of a traditional romantic. Duncan, 41, has revealed that he married his girlfriend Rodene Ronquillo, 32, the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer last month. “On November 4th, my beautiful fiancée @rodeneronquillo and I were frisking about in […]

So you’ve vowed to improve your fitness, meet The One, spring clean your lifestyle and pay off your credit card. Whatever your New Year’s resolutions, the sad truth is that come January, a vast majority will be broken. According to Tom Connellan, author of “The 1 Percent Solution: How to Make Your Next 30 Days […]

Christmas preparations are stressful enough, even before family members start to arrive and add their ‘colourful’ personalities to the mix. While we all love our family and accept their foibles and quirks, dealing with the relatives en masse can sometimes be less than joyous during the holiday season. Here, family therapist and mother of two […]