Dating
Dear Mary: My new boyfriend is too short. Can I make him wear shoe lifts?
Q. An acquaintance, whom I admire but don’t know well, sent me a ‘begging’ letter to donate to a charity…
Joan Collins: Want to know why all the Oscar films are boring? I’ll tell you
I’ve been meaning to write a Spectator diary since the summer but as a Gemini with Aries rising I find…
Dangerous liaisons
Lothario, Don Juan, philanderer, ‘naughty’, ‘plays away’ — all terms for men who have an overwhelming drive to seduce scores…
One night in the backwoods
The man I met in the moose-hunters' bar, and what happened between us
Dating stinks
Why I went looking for love in the armpits of strange men
Dear Mary
Q. I have a deep crush on an army officer I’ve met through work. He is decisive, practical and doesn’t…
Whatever happened to ‘Snog first, talk later’?
Sometimes I sit my nieces down and treat them to tales of dating in the dark ages, before iPhones arrived…
Erica Jong’s middle-aged dread
Who’d get old? Bits fall off, your loved ones start dropping like flies and, perhaps worst of all, the only…
Click and flick
Romance is being killed off by the brutal marketplace of dating apps such as Tinder
Dear Mary: Your Problems Solved
Q. Since recycling was introduced in our village, the wall at the end of our drive has become the depositing…
Dear Mary
Once again Mary has invited some of her favourite figures in the public eye to submit personal queries for her…
Marrying money
Marriage has emerged as a serious – and perhaps surprising – social divide
The mother of all problems
Nina Stibbe has a way with children. Her first book, a memoir, was a deceptively wide-eyed view of a literary…
