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Forget dating someone who likes the same stuff you do, this app ensures you both hate the same things.

Is 'Hater' the dating app we need in 2017?

A little girl doesn't come to the conclusion that girls aren't as brilliant as boys because one person told her so.

Study reveals true terror of raising daughters

COMMENT
Ben Pobjie

After 34 years of quiet suffering, Maeve Marsden is ready to come out about the trials of her upbringing.

Six dangers of growing up with lesbian parents

SATIRE
Maeve Marsden

I think three near-misses in water is enough for me to gain my wisdom badge.

I ignored my limits this summer, and almost ended up in the drowning statistics

Jennifer Morton

Call me Elsa: Alafair Korohina Wall, 4, is all about Elsa and Frozen.

15 movies with strong female protagonists to watch with your kids

Ariane Beeston prepares for her nude experience at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Going nude at the art gallery is something I'll never forget

Ariane Beeston

The idea that "good" women should be totally fulfilled by caring for their children is not uncommon.

When people ask 'aren't your children enough?'

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Sydney artist Alli Sebastian Wolf (centre) with her 'Clitorati'.

Bringing to light the 'mystery' of the clitoris

Jenny Noyes

Koraly and her daughter

Why is road tripping as a single mother such a big deal?

Koraly Dimitriadis

Lea Salonga.

What I know...

Jane Rocca

Your stars...

Your week in the stars...

Kelli Fox

Why I am in awe of my wife and other women.

Putting it in writing

Tony Wilson

Hair Apparent.

My child's transition became routine rather than dramatic

Laurie Frankel

Jessica Rowe answers your questions.

Dear Jess: my husband always lunches with a female colleague

Jessica Rowe

At least when I waste time I am not doing anybody any harm, writes Jane Caro

In defence of 'wasting time'

Jane Caro

While some friendships can tighten following the benefits, negotiation is necessary.

How friends with benefits can actually make a friendship stronger

Jack Rushall

It's important to have dreams and goals, but what happens when they become toxic and unmanageable?

We need to change how we speak about disappointment

Patrick Lenton

Lilith.

Your stars with Lilith: what to expect in the Year of the Rooster

Your week in the stars...

Your week in the stars

Kelli Fox

Andre Agassi.

What I know...

Jane Rocca

Dami Im.

Five prominent women reminisce about growing up in Australia

Jane Rocca

Jessica Rowe answers your questions.

Dear Jess: dealing with a friend that never reaches out first

Jessica Rowe

"If you go for a walk around the block and, upon your return, you can't remember what you were so steamed about, chances ...

The words used in job ads that turn men off from applying

Claire Cain Miller

Gigi Hadid on the set of a photoshoot in New York.

Help, I am hooked on my my Insta icons

Elizabeth Day

If I ever fall in love again, it will be because I meet a man in person under natural, pressure-free circumstances.

Romantically challenged: The difficulty of finding love as an ambivert

Chelsey Drysdale

Meshel Laurie.

Go North, Young Woman

Meshel Laurie

Julie Snook and Amber Sherlock.

What Amber Sherlock's dressing down teaches us about how to talk with our colleagues

COMMENT
Jenna Price

There's nothing more minimal than leaving your house with only a Sega Saturn, a broken clothes horse and an escalating ...

Forget Marie Kondo – the best way to declutter is going through a breakup

SATIRE
Patrick Lenton

Stress or challenge?

Who needs stress? We all do. Here's why

Leslie Barker

To identify a satisfying job, people should be thinking about office morale.

In choosing a job, focus on fun

Ayelet Fishbach

Sagittarius, the Archer. In mythology, Sagittarius represents the creature known as the centaur - half man half horse.

Your stars with Lilith

Lilith

After the birth of her fourth child, Leslie Hsu Oh spent a month without the pressure of fixing meals for her family.

A month of rest after childbirth is more than a gift

Leslie Hsu Oh

"Everything we did, we did ourselves. There wasn't any fanfare to it."

Forget the big wedding as more couples 'include' you through Facebook

Megan McDonough

We know abstinence is the wrong approach for physical sex education. The same goes for digital interactions.

Tinder is so last year - in 2017, dating apps are getting more selective

Sarah Polus

Mercury's forward move taking place this week.

Your stars with Lilith

Lilith

Mad Men's Betty Draper.

What happens when narcissists become parents?

Jody Allard

Your kids should be able to swim 25 metres confidently by the time they've turned seven. And so should you.

I just enrolled in adult swimming lessons. You should think about it too

Jenna Price

"We assume that our lives are linear, leading from birth to death in some sort of logical progression. But they can ...

Don't just have multiple careers, embrace the possibility of living completely different lives

Kerri Sackville

Backing down might be an effective solution, but it's a wholly unsatisfying one.

Why you may as well snitch to the mums of trolls

Jessica Contrera

House guests can be a blessing or a curse. It all depends on how you, the host, handle the guest request.

Overcrowded house? How to avoid a house guest holiday nightmare

Jennifer Morton

My friends and family care enough about me to understand my triggers and patters, but don't I owe it to them to work on it?

Where do we draw the line at self-acceptance?

Koraly Dimitriadis

Like so many online dating profiles, my job was perfect on paper, but not in real life.

Quitting my job made me feel like a failed feminist

Lauren Sams

Getting the important stuff done matters. Otherwise, our lives are frittered away on meetings, happy hours and Instagram.

5 ways to focus on what's important, not just urgent

Susie Moore

In 2017, resolve to say yes to new things, instead of saying no to old habits.

Why you should make new year's resolutions that are kinder to yourself

Patrick Lenton

New year, new moon, new family issues.

Your stars with Lilith: week starting January 7

Remind yourself of the reasons you are cutting down or stopping drinking.

Why do our friends pressure us into drinking?

Simon Lenton

The only New Year's resolution Nicola Appleton kept was to give up clothes shopping for a year.

I quit clothes shopping for a year and this is what I learnt

Nicola Appleton

Susan Berg is using the swim to raise funds for a domestic violence shelter, after becoming a survivor of family abuse.

This is how the sole survivor of a boat accident overcomes fear

Daisy Dumas

<i>Photo: Jesse Morrow/Stocksy</i>

It's pointless to beg for 'closure' after a heartbreak

COMMENT
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Back when the mall was subversive.

The secret feminist history of shopping

Jeff Guo

Pink Shopping Lady with doughnut using technology

Why sometimes it pays to forget being frugal

COMMENT
Kate Hagerty

Sydney mum Faria Hossain.

'I was oblivious to the commotion around me': Sydney mum's miracle baby

Faria Hossain

The new year is an interesting cosmic time.

Your stars with Lilith

Lilith

Starting afresh in a relationship means starting afresh at Christmas.

My favourite thing about Christmas in a blended family? Making new traditions

Nicole Jankowski

What does it mean for a child when his mother's best present was the destruction of her marriage to his father?

One of the best Christmas gifts I received was divorce papers

Sonya Huber

Brandon Cook.

Stop making assumptions about sex based on my appearance

COMMENT
Brandon Cook

This Christmas we are celebrating together as a family, and it's not something I'm taking for granted.

After nearly losing my husband, I'm determined to see the glass half-full this Christmas

COMMENT
Caroline Duncan

"I may have friends scattered around the globe but I don't have anyone near me."

What it's like when you don't have a girl gang

Jennifer Morton

They may not be the ones who are disappointed.

What psychologists really think about the Santa myth

Ana Swanson

I had to prioritise my own safety, too.

Months after our Tinder date, he threatened to commit suicide

Ariel Henley

In recent weeks, self-care has often been invoked as a way of dealing with open-ended anxiety.

Not just pampering: The importance of self-care in stressful times

Marisa Meltzer

Sagittarius, the Archer. In mythology, Sagittarius represents the creature known as the centaur - half man half horse.

Your stars with Lilith

Lilith

"The couple of minutes of joy gained from my children was scant compensation for the forty-plus minutes that the parent ...

The pride and pain of attending school Christmas concerts

Ben Pobjie

Forget about the things you don't have and focus, instead, on what you do have.

How to get off the treadmill of wanting more, more, more

Daisy Dumas

Writer Kate Iselin's most memorable Tinder date? "It was a gentleman who invited me to lunch, took me to the food court ...

Why Generation Tinder won't go back to dating 'the old-fashioned way'

Jenny Noyes
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This week's stars.

Your week in the stars...

Kelli Fox

Kate Pierson from B-52s.

What I know about men...

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, Anthony Michael Hall, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Barron, 1983

Help, we are all going on a family hell-iday

Lola Borg

Alyce Pilgrim in Mykonos.

These women jumped on the 'Eat Pray Love' bandwagon and never looked back

Evelyn Lewin

The Pudding Maker

A spontaneous Christmas pudding is now my family tradition

Jenna Price

Jessica Rowe answers your questions.

Dear Jess: The perils of being a wallflower during the festive season

Jessica Rowe

Those who repay nature's spectacle by leaving rubbish do not deserve to be there. End of story.

Make sure you know the beach etiquette basics, or cop my death stare

COMMENT
Wendy Squires

Estrangement is much more common that we realise.

The pain of being estranged from your family

Jenna Price

You must be fun at parties and other insults from the treacherous edge of the internet.

Why I secretly dread the holiday party season

Sally Friedman

There's nothing wrong with lingerie, but there are many factors at play when sex becomes a "problem" that a new g-string ...

I wanted more sex than my male partner, and I felt ashamed

Madeleine Ryan

Enjoy the ever-fruitful generosity of summer solstice, our year's longest day.

Horoscopes: Your stars with Lilith

Lilith

Good sex and intimacy starts at home.

Improving your sex life starts at home

Bella Ellwood-Clayton

Public debate about the difficulties and costs of managing work and family is still solely centred on women.

We need to start talking about working dads

Jane Gilmore

Linda Burney.

Linda Burney: Men should be better supported to express emotion

Daisy Dumas

Illustration by Rocco Fazzari.

Your week in the stars...

Nic Walker

Jessica Rowe answers your questions.

Dear Jess: What should I do about the empty-handed Christmas guest?

Jessica Rowe

A perceived attack is a real attack.

What I learned from an embarrassing public meltdown

Jo Stanley

"We've got each other's backs. It was never meant to be the huge movement that it's become."

How Constance Hall’s bold parenting blog attracted a million 'queens'

Jenna Clarke

Public speaking is one of the top three human fears.

You can learn how to stop sweating public speaking, and just maybe enjoy it

Fiona Higgins

We all know what motherhood's really like.

Why it's time we stopped trying to be the perfect mother

Lauren Sams

"If parents protect their child from uncomfortable emotions, when they're older they won't know how to cope with those ...

Why saying 'no' to your kids should make you feel good

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Married people ranked "satisfying sexual relationship" higher than almost every other item.

Sexual connection is key to happy marriages, and it shouldn't be a secret

Heidi Stevens

"Our relationship was an IOU exchange that only went one way."

My boyfriend didn't want to be a rapist, but he was

Michelle Jones*

I feel burnt out from life. Alone time is one of the things that can help.

It's time we stop 'limping' to the end-of-year finish line

Kerri Sackville

Australian rates of labiaplasty – sometimes called ‘the Barbie surgery’ – have doubled since 2001.

Women don’t always get what they want from labiaplasty

Gemma Sharp and Julie Mattiske

Align with generous, genial Jupiter's giving and forgiving influence this week.

Your stars with Lilith

Lilith

All the gendered expectations that straight people take for granted must be rethought.

I'm bisexual - when I date women, we don't argue about housework

Breena Kerr

adult dance

How adult dance classes helped me reclaim my body after birth

Sarah McKenzie

Polyamory is now more accepted by millennials than any generation before.

What if we thought of monogamy as a spectrum?

Zachary Zane

Starting afresh in a relationship means starting afresh at Christmas.

'Tis the season to start stressing about money

Jenna Price

"Now I am a mother and I have learned to see my face through different eyes again."

Now that I'm a mother, I can at last see my own mother in me

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

Stay-at-home fathers are still a rarity.

Our perceptions of what makes a good mother are stuck in the 1950s

COMMENT
Shevonne Hunt

"A doula has your back," says Helen Callanan.

Doulas aren't just for birth - they're now helping families through death too

Evelyn Lewin

Independence had always brought success in the past. But a baby changed everything.

My mother taught me never to depend on a man, and that failed me

COMMENT
Katherine Feeney

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