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Family

  • Two women in an office environment look at a piece of paper together

    The personality audit: should we ask friends for their brutally honest feedback on our flaws?

    There can be a big gap between self-perception and how our loved ones see us. Is it ever a good idea to seek the truth?
  • Illustration of a tabby cat with seven kittens nestling around her

    What’s the biggest litter a cat has ever had? Try our kids’ quiz

  • A child sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands looking upset. Image shot 06/2015. Exact date unknown.<br>EWDB2A A child sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands looking upset. Image shot 06/2015. Exact date unknown.

    My five-year-old son is learning to play chess…

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Eva Wiseman

    Ladybirds are meant to be lucky, but lucky for who?

    Eva Wiseman
  • OM ARCHIVE COVER_31st October 1971

    Longing for a baby in 1971

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    As an immigrant I’m undervalued, and my wife has no sympathy

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Opinion

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    I’ve always been untidy. Nothing prepared me, however, for the mess having a child would make

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Adrian Chiles

    My Serbian bean stew sets pulses racing. The recipe? Oh, if you insist …

    Adrian Chiles
  • Adrian Chiles

    I slashed my unloved football – and 40 years later, I’m still living with the shame

    Adrian Chiles
  • Two children playing on a fence

    The Guardian view on universal credit: raising the level of benefits must be the priority

  • Bluey Heeler from TV series Bluey

    Bluey’s blockbuster episode hit a nerve for my family by casting moving house as difficult and scary

    Chloe Booker
  • Hispanic woman carrying daughter<br>GettyImages-90306700

    My walking, talking little girl has just turned two…

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Mother embracing young female football player on sidelines after game

    Watch the shouting! How parents’ sideline behaviour can strip the fun out of children’s sport

    Elise Waghorn for the Conversation
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Advice

  • An illustration of a man with crossly folded arms, with a seated female figure in the background.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My friend ranks his friendships in a league table – and it worries me

  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    Sexual healing
    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

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    Ask Philippa
    As an immigrant I’m undervalued, and my wife has no sympathy

  • Renault repair costs for a Zoe heater have mounted up to £11,000.

    Consumer champions
    Renault sent me an £11,000 bill to repair my Zoe heater

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Love & sex

  • Molly Roden Winter shot for OM

    ‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage

  • illustration of older people being intimate

    This is how we do it: ‘I’ve had more sex in the past two years than in the rest of my life’

    Violet and Oliver met in their 70s – and are both revelling in their uninhibited, experimental sex life
  • Harry and Jack standing together, smiling.

    Blind date in Sydney: ‘Tall, good-looking, shirt decidedly unbuttoned – my doubts vanished’

    Harry (left), 26, a supply planner, meets Jack, 27, a dictionary editor
  • Steve and Lisa sitting in a coffee shop

    How we met: ‘It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time’

  • Sexual Healing composite image of a woman, cross-legged, looking pensively to the left

    I used to love sex. But my boyfriend’s premature ejaculation is turning me off it – and him

  • Mary-Anne O’Connor and Anthony on their wedding day in 1997, 10 years after they met

    The moment I knew: my brother’s voice was so clear in my head – ‘This is the man you’re going to marry’

  • A bright cartoon of a couple from the waist down, with motorised cogs covering their groins.

    This is how we do it: ‘My sex drive starter motor is slower than his but just as powerful’

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