Marriage
Stop calling me ‘Goat’
The title of Tim Parks’s 17th novel is false advertising, because Thomas and Mary: A Love Story is barely a…
Summer’s end
Hedonism, tragedy and me
A marriage of misanthropes
This is a cautionary tale for any young couples out there thinking of tying the knot. Be wary of what…
Will he was
In 2011, the Daily Mail carried a long story about how the Queen’s cousin Prince William of Gloucester, who died…
Diary
My Cambodian daughter and her husband have just got married again. Wedding One was a Buddhist affair in our drawing…
Your problems solved
Q. My partner, a leading political commentator on a national newspaper, recently agreed to shave off his hair at the…
Web of sin
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Sub-Aga saga
Lovely, gentle Isabel, just 40, makes masks. Her husband Dan, erstwhile ‘student of the Classics’ and playwright manqué, is ‘bored…
The age of the Skype Dad
What happens when a divorce court accepts video calls as a substitute for visiting your children
Dear Mary
Q. For ten years, I have made a reasonable freelance income working from home. During this time my husband has…
Your problems solved
Q. Someone I was at university with but hadn’t seen much of over the ten years since invited me to…
Gods and fairytales
The rise of modern paganism – and the persistence of the real thing
Singles match
The rise of ‘living apart together’ – and why I’ve stopped doing it
Dear Mary
Once again Mary has invited some of her favourite figures in the public eye to submit personal queries for her…
What you’re not allowed to say about divorce
Would you find it difficult to remain friends with someone if he or she suddenly revealed that they intended to…
Marrying money
Marriage has emerged as a serious – and perhaps surprising – social divide
The Greeks and rape
A footballer serves his sentence for rape, insisting on his innocence. Debate rages whether he should play again. To us,…
Letters
Faith and flexibility Sir: What a contrast in your two articles on religion last week: one liberal atheist parent (Claire…
Diary
Last Tuesday I tried to sign up to a new life. My wife and I argued, slightly. ‘I don’t think…
Husband and wives
Needless to say, it’s not uncommon to hear single British women in their thirties and forties saying that all the…
Long life
Back from holiday in Italy, I look out of my kitchen window in Northamptonshire to find the country view blocked…
When did romantic love become a religion?
Pity the modern starlet. Be she steaming-hot pop-tart or reality-show show-off, her range of emotional experiences will, thanks mostly to…
Real life
The problem with not getting married, I am increasingly realising, is that you cannot get divorced. There is no mechanism…
The case for being wed
I’m due to speak at an Intelligence Squared debate on Saturday and I’m worried that I might be on the…
Flashman lives!
Why it’s time for a Cad of the Year Award
