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Family

  • Portrait of Puk Qvortrup standing in a field in Denmark wearing a red top and orange skirt

    ‘Reality hit: I was about to give birth to a dead man’s child’: I became a widow and single mother aged 26

    I was pregnant, and getting ready for our son’s second birthday when the phone rang and everything changed in an instant. My husband had collapsed during a half marathon. How would I ever keep going?
  • Illustration of a red fox on a white background

    How many types of foxes are there and who invented wigs? Try our kids’ quiz

  • Tim Dowling illustration collage

    Tim Dowling: we’re on a packed train with the wrong ticket– and I’m meant to relax?

  • Extremely messy room of a teenage.<br>AB6DGB Extremely messy room of a teenage.

    We’re not all alike in sensory awareness

  • Mum Dad arguing with child stuck in the middle

    My working-class dad sent me to private school – now I feel that I’ve failed him

  • wedding cake comes crashing down

    ‘They dropped the cake from the top of the stairs’: wedding disasters – and insiders’ tips on how to avoid them

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Opinion

  • Adrian Chiles

    My dad has died but his watch ticks on. Why does that feel so heartless?

    Adrian Chiles
  • Zoe Williams

    Why does Father’s Day always mean more work for mothers?

    Zoe Williams
  • Rachel Cooke

    Wake up and smell the yorkshires – Sunday lunch is back!

    Rachel Cooke
  • Zoe Williams

    How much do you love your children? With prom season approaching, it’s time for more competitive parenting

    Zoe Williams
  • Birthday boy: my memory of that time is etched in dark marble

    My son is passing many early milestones but there’s one that’s for me to reflect on

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Eva Wiseman

    Why is it so hard to book a holiday?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Emily Mulligan with her niece, Catherine Mulligan.

    Becoming an aunty unlocked a deranged kind of love. It’s a pleasure to cop the moods and mess

    Emily Mulligan
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Advice

  • Mum Dad arguing with child stuck in the middle

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My working-class dad sent me to private school – now I feel that I’ve failed him

  • ‘Even with this freedom I feel lost'.

    Sexual healing
    I want love and intimacy – but I am struggling with my sexual identity

  • Prince William, King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murty applaud at a D-Day event in Portsmouth

    Ask Philippa
    Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast

  • A paper application to grant probaate.

    Consumer champions
    My husband died, and now I can’t access our savings or sell our house

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Love & sex

  • Coogee Run Club after running from Coogee to Clovelly as dawn breaks.

    Run clubs, book readings and salsa: the gatherings pulling gen Z off their screens

  • ‘He made me see the lighter side of life’: Heather and Rhodri in 2008

    The moment I knew: in his hospital bed, he ripped off his oxygen mask and said he loved me

    Heather McCormack was trying to play it cool with Rhodri. Then, 24 hour in a hospital waiting room showed her life was too short
  • Illustration of Mila and Oliver being catapulted

    This is how we do it: ‘The threesomes are on hold while we try for a baby’

    Mila and Oliver’s bedroom activity was centred on exploring their fantasies, but trying to conceive means sex is now more about fertility than kink
  • Lucy Holden surrounded by her nine matchmakers

    I asked my mum, my ex and seven others to find me a date. Could I fall in love?

  • Peter and Linda

    Blind date: ‘His ex-wife had booked the same restaurant for her book group’

  • A 19th-century painting of a man between two women

    My husband loves me but clearly fancies a woman at work. How can I manage my jealousy?

  • An illustration of a newlywed couple posing for photographs at their wedding as guests look on.

    Wedding wars! How photographers took over – and vicars fought back

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