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What is it like to be cooped up with 11 children – or multiple generations and a handful of cats? Those in large families describe the frustrations, pressures and their quests for peace and quiet -
With comedy festivals cancelled around the world, Amazon Prime is releasing 10 original Australian specials to tide you over
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Things are tough right now, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but we must try to keep contempt at bay -
Now that everything seems so uncertain, it’s time to cleave to what we can depend on -
Though their love was tentative at first, for 29 years, Kevin Klehr and Warren Brown have kept their partnership alive by making big plans not sweating the small stuff
Opinion
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Here are the things you’ll remember fondly … and those that will change forever
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We hadn’t envisaged raising a child so physically remote from our families and friends
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Here’s hoping the pandemic forces a rethink of our obsession with work and the culture of busyness
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The economics of coronavirus and the logistics of home-working are playing into some old gender inequalities, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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It’s not sunbathers the government should fret over; it’s the millions of us it’ll need to convince, once this is over, to come out, blinking into the light
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It doesn’t feel dissimilar to my time in hospital, but now it’s the government controlling my movements rather than my doctors
Advice
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Could she be angry and bitter as a defence against feeling pain, sadness, disappointment and possibly depression, asks Annalisa Barbieri -
I am now at an age when I want a career and to settle down and start a family, but I am afraid of rejection -
I want her to understand the ‘mechanics’, but also to understand that it’s about love and fun. And I don’t want to just give her a book -
You seem detached from your own desires, says Mariella Frostrup. Think about whether this represents a long-standing emotional issue and get professional help
Love & sex
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With most of Australia in some kind of lockdown, one might assume there’s little left to whisper about. But while the topics have changed, we’re still hungry for gossip -
While singles living on their own may experience loneliness and couples could see their relationships tested, singles living with couples cop both extremes -
Touch is essential to our wellbeing, from the time we are babies. It’s how we transmit meaning, care, love and community. Our sudden loss of it has been agonising
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Quarantine encourages the prosperity of sexual exploration. In the absence of consequence, there’s an abundance of freedom
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Mark Brewster and Kärri Brewster-Palts met at work in 2014. They got engaged before they started officially dating
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