Divorce

You shared each other’s lives, possibly a house and maybe children. But can you really share friendship with an ex? We’ve all got a couple of exes knocking around. How to deal with them can be a dilemma. Impossible as it sounds, some choose friendship. But can a platonic relationship ever replace an intimate, sexual […]

Anyone who knows someone who has gone through a messy divorce knows that it can be enough to make your hair fall out. But new research shows divorce can cause hair women’s hair to fall out unaided as well. New research conducted by the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine shows that women who have […]

I have been with the same man for thirty-one years and married to him for ten years. We have two grown-up children together and three grandchildren. In our years together he has had two affairs that I know of and at these times I left but went back for the family. This was earlier on […]

As Neil Sedaka sang, breaking up is hard to do — but not if you live in China. For a mere $30, Chinese lotharios can now hire a complete stranger to dump their partners for them. The past few months have seen a boom in ‘break-up proxy’ websites that help timid customers end their romances […]

Shared parenting was enshrined in changes to the Family Law Act in 2006, but as Malcolm Knox discovers, the only thing that many separated parents now share is confusion, isolation and heartbreak. Anna* and her ex-husband had been sharing the care of their three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son for nearly a year when she noticed […]

I have been in a relationship for four years. My boyfriend has three children who are 19, 16 and 14 years old who live with their mum in the same village as my boyfriend. We live 150 kms apart and I don’t want to move to live with him until we buy a house together […]

David Arquette ‘sick’ of talking about Courteney Cox By Kerry Warren Courteney Cox’s estranged husband David Arquette has vowed to stop talking about their marriage woes. The 39-year-old actor has given dozens of candid interviews about Courteney, 46, since they separated last October after 11 years of marriage. In pictures: Most shocking royal scandals He […]

Kelsey Grammer has married Kayte Walsh in a lavish ceremony in New York on Friday, just two weeks after his divorce from his third wife, Camille Donatacci, was finalised. The 55-year-old Frasier star exchanged vows with the 29-year-old former flight attendant in the city’s Longacre Theater. In pictures: Royal weddings The venue was decorated with […]

Goldie Hawn’s former husband is looking to cash in on his relationship with the movie star by selling a book about their relationship. Bill Hudson, father to movie star Kate Hudson, is shopping around a tell-all memoir under the title So You Are a Star, the New York Post has reported. In pictures: messy celeb […]

Myrna Colley-Lee has reportedly pocketed around US$400 million in cash and assets after her 26-year marriage to actor Morgan Freeman came to an end in 2009. In pictures: Most expensive divorces Early whispers put the figure at US$175 million, but US magazine The National Inquirer has claimed the figure is much higher. The settlement includes […]