Good Slut by Zoe Strimpel: Blind spots and biases quickly show in this myopic manifesto
What’s most striking about a book ostensibly about celebrating women’s freedom is its utter joylessness
‘My girlfriend regularly texts her ex-boyfriend. Am I being too insecure about it?’
Ask Roe: She explained that before their relationship they were just friends and she wanted to keep that friendship
I’m in my 60s with a pleasant companion – is it asking too much to want more?
Ask Roe: I’m beginning to wonder if we are just friends. We never sleep together
‘My partner lives in terror of Covid-19. We even had to cancel our wedding’
Ask Roe: ‘She insists I wear a mask all day, and we have separate bedrooms and bathrooms’
‘I feel sexually muted but I don’t want to blow up my marriage’
Ask Roe: Sex with my husband has always been fine, nothing more. It’s familiar to the point of numbness
Gisèle Pelicot’s powerful memoir A Hymn to Life: ‘Love is not dead. I am not dead’
This is not a book about collapse, nor a story of triumphant overcoming. It is something more complex
I’m in my 50s and want to start over with the one who got away
Ask Roe: It had been years since we met, and in our 20s we were in love with each other
Love for life: ‘That evening, my life changed. The rest is history’
Couples together for decades reflect on the arc of their relationships, including the tough times and the everyday rituals that sustained them
Relationship experts on secrets to long-term love
Love isn’t something you secure once and protect from change. It’s something you keep on creating
Three Irish couples on navigating a long-term relationship: ‘The little things can mean the most’
Couples together for decades reflect on the arc of their relationships, including the tough times and the everyday rituals that sustained them
‘My boyfriend is so kind and loving, but I feel a bit bored’
Ask Roe: I’m worried if I leave I won’t find someone as caring as him, but I also feel stuck
Fair Deal writer Una McKevitt: Buying a home is like ‘going to Mars – it takes up a huge part of people’s lives’
Set over a single night in a family home, Fair Deal uses a dispute around care and inheritance to ask not who gets the house, but what the house has already done to the people inside it
How do I convince my boyfriend to stay connected to his difficult family?
Ask Roe: He can’t understand how I can associate with family and friends who think differently to me
‘Can I raise doubts about my relationship without ending it?’
Ask Roe: Marriage and children are on the horizon for us but I’ve started to question whether it is what I want
How can I convince my on-again off-again flame I’m ready to commit?
Ask Roe: I left her to go travelling, but I found out she was seeing someone else and I feel really hurt