Relationships
Your Place, My Place, Kids Every Other Week
After 40, love often arrives with children, ex-partners, routines and two already established homes. Does commitment still have to mean moving in together?
Relationships
After 40, love often arrives with children, ex-partners, routines and two already established homes. Does commitment still have to mean moving in together?
Dating
We know a passport tells us almost nothing about a person. And yet accents, looks and national stereotypes still shape attraction. So which European nationalities do we secretly find most attractive — and what does that say about us?
Sex-Desire
We like to say attraction is about humour, intelligence and personality. But first, we look. So what actually makes someone sexy — and why does it differ so much from one person to another?
Relationships
We want love, trust, sex, friendship, stability, humour and emotional support — often from the same person. But relationships are not scorecards, and not every missing box matters in the same way.
Relationships
Can you deeply love your partner and still desire someone else? Perhaps attraction is not the opposite of commitment — but one of the realities commitment has to survive.
Sex-Desire
We talk openly about therapy, stress, sleep and mental health. So why does an honest conversation about sex still make so many adults lower their voices?
Dating
We say we want to meet people in real life. So why have we become so nervous about looking up, saying hello and letting attraction begin without an app?
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They may have partners, families and lives already built. So what are married men doing on dating apps — and what does it tell us about desire, validation and modern commitment?
A man in his 50s opens a dating app and sets his preferred age range. Perhaps 35 to 45. Perhaps 38 to 48. Perhaps, with admirable optimism, somewhere considerably south of his own date of birth. He is hardly an anomaly. The idea that older men are attracted to younger
We say we want to meet someone. But after years of building a life that works perfectly well alone, how much are we really prepared to rearrange for love?
After 40, plenty of women still want to meet someone. A good man. Single, emotionally available — preferably all three at once. So why do they seem increasingly difficult to find?