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  • Observer Magazine<br>Lauren Bensted pictured with her baby - her story of a bowel disease triggered after child birth.

    ‘I felt myself split into before and after’: how giving birth triggered a life-changing illness

    Having a baby led to an unexpected disease and then surgery that altered Lauren Bensted’s body for ever. She talks about the pain she felt in being separated from her newborn, and her journey to learn to accept her new life
  • Eva Wiseman

    Shelf life: why are toy shops full of horrors these days?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Senior woman sitting on the bench<br>Lonely senior woman is sitting on the bench in park

    I’ve lost contact with my brother. Is it too late to reach out?

  • A man places a ring on a woman’s hand

    ‘I didn’t expect anything to change’: what makes long-term de facto couples decide to marry?

  • Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

    Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child

  • Headshot of Carol Decker in 2024

    T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back: ‘We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams’

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Opinion

  • Emma Beddington

    What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be

    Emma Beddington
  • A Stena Line sea ferry sails into Dublin port near an Irish Ferries sea ferry in Dublin<br>A Stena Line sea ferry sails into Dublin port near an Irish Ferries sea ferry, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Dublin, Ireland, March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

    A family ferry trip across to Dublin has its fair share of drama

    Séamas O’Reilly
    But first there’s that long drive to Holyhead, writes Séamas O’Reilly
  • Freddy McConnell

    We may have equal marriage – but LGBTQ+ people are still locked out of equal parenthood

    Freddy McConnell
  • Frances Ryan

    Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

    Frances Ryan
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    I’ve always been untidy. Nothing prepared me, however, for the mess having a child would make

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • A child sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands looking upset. Image shot 06/2015. Exact date unknown.<br>EWDB2A A child sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands looking upset. Image shot 06/2015. Exact date unknown.

    My five-year-old son is learning to play chess…

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Eva Wiseman

    Ladybirds are meant to be lucky, but lucky for who?

    Eva Wiseman
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Advice

  • Unsympathetic - man woman illustration

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My brother bullied me, which has had a lifelong impact. Can I build bridges with him now?

  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    Sexual healing
    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

  • Senior woman sitting on the bench<br>Lonely senior woman is sitting on the bench in park

    Ask Philippa
    I’ve lost contact with my brother. Is it too late to reach out?

  • Saga home insurance website promising a good deal on insurance.

    Consumer champions
    Caring for the elderly? Not with Saga’s 220% price hike

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Love & sex

  • Man and woman in wedding attire

    The moment I knew: he kissed me goodnight – then rang to make sure I saw the moon

  • Sebastian and Teresa

    This is how we do it: ‘Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure’

    With penetrative sex no longer an option, Sebastian and Teresa have found different ways to satisfy one other
  • Trisha and Neil

    Blind date: ‘I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down’

    Trisha, 61, a yoga teacher, meets Neil, 65, a meditation teacher
  • Painting: Anthony van Dyck Wooing his Model (1827) by Gustaaf Wappers.

    My partner concealed he had more than one ex-wife. Should I be nervous about our future?

  • Molly Roden Winter shot for OM

    ‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage

  • ‘It occurred to me that this man was going to be in my life forever’ … Lukas Radovich, left, and Liam Forcadilla in Sydney in February

    The moment I knew: his voice on speaker made me laugh – and broke my family’s haze of grief

  • illustration of older people being intimate

    This is how we do it: ‘I’ve had more sex in the past two years than in the rest of my life’

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