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Love & sex

  • Zoe Williams

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

    Zoe Williams
  • Image of deep-sea anglerfish

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

    In some fish species, couples lose all independence when they mate, even sharing one pair of eyes. Is that really something to aspire to?
  • Eva Wiseman

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

    Eva Wiseman
  • A man and woman pose for a photo in Sri Lanka

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

  • Cartoon of naked man lying on telephoe

    This is how we do it: ‘We have phone sex once a month – and it feels primal’

  • Blind Date Emi and Hari

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

  • Person laying on a bed with a cat

    Paloma Faith’s swipe at dating apps is justified – but we won’t give them up

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Blind date

  • Elliot & Jordan ON BLIND DATE

    Blind date: ‘I made him pinky promise to say nice things about me’

  • Blind Date Ashley and Eva

    Blind date: ‘I ducked under the table to put my shoe back on and he thought I’d left’

  • Blind Daters comp Sonia & Richard

    Blind date: ‘She told me there wasn’t a spark in the middle of the date’

  • Blind Daters Ella and John

    Blind date: ‘He gave the manager feedback on the food I ate, on my behalf’

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Relationships

  • Mary and Naomi for How We Met - guardian features - (Naomi on left) January 2023 - spa day (first time leaving our babies for the night)

    How we met
    How we met: ‘Our friendship is built on trust and loyalty – but we also have a really good laugh’

  • Happy, sad and neutral emoticons on instant print photographs<br>F2Y4NN Happy, sad and neutral emoticons on instant print photographs

    Ask Philippa
    Bad events knocked the joy out of my life. How do I get it back?

  • A man and woman in bed

    Sexual healing
    My partner and I only have sex three times a year – and I am frustrated

  • carton of woman and man talking and man left out behind

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m childless and gay, and feel left out of our family since my sister had children

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