Relationships

CityKat

Never fear the Ghost of Relationships Past

Couple heart love

Katherine Feeney Nevert fear the Ghost of Relationships Past.

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City Kat

Are romance novels as bad for relationships as porn?

Shades of grey audi

Katherine Feeney Forget 50 Shades, it’s Farmer Wants a Wife that is the real 'pornography' for women.

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Is divorce ruining relationships?

Katherine Feeney CityKat.

Katherine Feeney Divorce is too easy and it's changing how we conceptualise relationships.

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"Forget monogamy and just shag" - One scientific theory on relationships

Sam Brett When monogamy becomes monotony, should we ditch commitment altogether? One author reckons so... Sam Brett reports.

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Plus what?

Time to drop the body labels?

Plus size model Laura Wells shoot with photographer Natalie in Pyrmont, Sydney.

Bree Player Why we should stop calling models larger than sample size 'curvy', 'voluptuous' and worst of all... 'real women'.

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Awkward encounter

From boardroom to bedroom and back

Business time

MJ Angel In this day and age, where we are working longer hours, do we just accept that boardrooms are the new bars?

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Predator stare

Hiding in plain sight

Socipath

Respected academic M.E. Thomas is neither a murderer nor a criminal, but she is a sociopath – and as many as 1 in 25 of us may be one, too.

Physical instruction

Going from good to great by mating with your mate

Beautiful young teacher, 
Teacher

Sensuality

Women

Blackboard

Partnership

People

Teaching

Single Object

One Person

Action

Office Worker

Beautiful

Beauty

Brown Hair

Business

Caucasian

Blue

Behaviour

Human Face

Female

Looking At Camera

Spectacles

Humour

Looking

Necklace

Portrait

Katherine Feeney Would you enlist a friend to improve your sexual technique?

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Connection error

Connection error: Will smartphones break your heart?

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg checks his cell phone after a product announcement at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Zuckerberg turns 28 on Monday, May 14, 2012. He's considerably younger than the average FORTUNE 500 CEO, of course. But while some investors worry that Zuckerberg is too young to lead Facebook as a public company, experts point out that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell were in their 20s when their companies had IPOs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Katherine Feeney Do smart phones and the internet help or hinder relationships?

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Education first

Here comes the bride ... well, eventually

Young bride and groom standing on white background. Smiling and looking at each other. Woman is holding flowers pic for wedding expo magazine for vows editorial

Luke Cooper For modern young Australians, the pursuit of a higher education is far more important than early marriage.

Connected clan

How to have a functional family

Lakshmi Singh Having a close, connected family is beneficial not just to a child's sense of identity and wellbeing but to the parents and extended family too.

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After life

The end: an 'uplifting' experience

Being there

Sarah Berry New research and a new book suggest dying is more heavenly than hellish and we can make of it what we will.

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A wrap

The next generation condoms

Condoms

Sarah Berry Having to bring our brains with us when it's business time and think about say, using a condom for instance, seems contrary to the raw physicality and spontaneity of the pursuit.

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Guest expense

Hear the wedding bells and registers ring

Wedding guests: You can end up paying royally.

Katherine Feeney Sure weddings are expensive but it also costs a pretty penny just to be the guest.

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Public smooching

Time to kiss off the PDA dismay?

Campbell and Lisa Newman's displays of affection have caught the attention of Queenslanders.

Katherine Feeney Queenslanders aren't too happy about affection shown in public... especially when it's by politicians.

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Identifying the warning signs

Reading signs:How can you tell where your relationship is headed?

Katherine Feeney “I knew it was over because every time we had sex, I was super, super careful about not getting her pregnant.”

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High voltage

From trauma comes first female guru

Kim Fraser

Sarah Berry Kim Fraser came from a ''good Roman Catholic household'', was a successful barrister and a single mother of two children.

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Broody blokes

Men missing out on fatherhood

Father fishing with son - generic.

Robin Handley I know all about broody men who long desperately for the chance to be dads. I am one.

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I married a murderess

Tracey Richter and Michael Roberts.

On the surface, it's a straightforward enough scenario: an Aussie dad locked in an international custody battle with his homicidal American ex-wife.

Faux Orgasm

Faking the big O

Meg Ryan

Matty Silver Both men and women fake orgasms. But in nearly all cases women blame themselves.

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