Relationships

My wife has little interest in foreplay but I can’t get aroused without it

I am a man in my early 50s, with a wife in her 40s. After 20 years together, she won’t engage in anything more than the most basic foreplay,...

Do you dream of becoming one with your partner? The deep-sea anglerfish shows how badly that can end

I have just discovered how the deep-sea anglerfish mates. My apologies if this is old ichthyological news to...

Why is dating app Feeld so popular? Fetishes and throuples are only part of the story | Zoe Williams

Obviously if you are not on any dating apps, you shouldn’t have any opinions about them, and you...

‘Throuples’ dating app Feeld nearly doubles turnover to £39.5m

A dating app aimed at alternative relationships nearly doubled its revenues last year as non-monogamous, queer and kinky...

It’s so tempting for columnists to give a little too much away

As an avid reader of newspaper columns, the ones I’ve always looked forward to are the ones where...

Blind Date: ‘I showed too much disdain when he mentioned his friends working in the City’

Emi on HariWhat were you hoping for? Someone to walk London’s Capital Ring with. Failing that, a free dinner. First impressions? Handsome...

The moment I knew: he helped me try on a motorbike helmet – and I cried because he showed such tenderness

My love life has not been straightforward to say the least. I’ve been married – and also divorced. By 2016, I had pretty well...

My friends never want to go out any more – and it’s making me feel lonely | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

I’m in my early 20s and graduated from university in July 2023. I’ve been lucky enough to find a good job, which I have...

The moment I knew: ‘He kissed me and I realised I’d been too quick to judge him’

When I first met Tony in Melbourne in 1985, he wasn’t actually someone I considered partner material, I didn’t think he was what I...