‘My ex has broken up with me six times in eight years. How do I break the cycle?’Ask Roe: ‘I always felt that my life was better with him in it and when we are together there’s nowhere else I’d rather be’Sun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
After seven years, I’m afraid my boyfriend won’t ever proposeAsk Roe: I’m scared that there’s a reason he’s not proposing ... But I also don’t want to become this nagging woman putting pressure on her boyfriend to proposeSun Jan 19 2025 - 00:00
My ex has become the man I always wanted, but with someone elseAsk Roe: I feel completely worthless. I don’t know why he wasn’t able to do any of this for meSun Jan 12 2025 - 05:00
‘My friend was sleeping with another friend’s boyfriend and refuses to take responsibility’‘She’s had a hard few years but it’s hard to sympathise when she complains about our friend group excluding her’Sun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
‘I’m gay and I started a relationship with a very closeted man last year. He’s a nice guy but he’s doing my head in’Four readers seek advice on life problems including comparisons with others, having a closeted partner and revisiting an old relationshipSun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
How do I find love while still living at home in rural Ireland?Ask Roe: ‘Living in a rural area, without my own space, I feel stuck in a rut in terms of meeting people’Sun Dec 08 2024 - 05:00
‘My boyfriend wants to move to Australia, but my life is here’‘I feel that no matter what we decide to do, one of us is going to be unhappy with that choice’Sun Dec 01 2024 - 05:00
I’m asexual but want a relationship. How do I try to date?Ask Roe: I have little to no physical or sexual experience and I’m worried how this is going to affect any potential relationshipsSun Nov 24 2024 - 05:00
Cutting off family members: ‘It had never occurred to me that you could grieve somebody who was still alive’In an age of constant communication, the decision to go ‘no contact’ with a family member is more noticeable, but there is still sometimes too much societal judgement of those who take such a serious decisionSat Nov 23 2024 - 05:55
My husband always wants dirty talk and I’m sick of itAsk Roe: To be honest, it makes me not want to have sex. But it’s a difficult subject to broachSun Nov 17 2024 - 05:00
Ireland’s new dating scene: Finding love the old-fashioned wayThe quest for love has become an exercise in frustration, but sometimes modern problems need some old-fashioned solutionsSat Nov 16 2024 - 05:00
We had sex maybe once a month. The constant rejection was soul-crushing, it felt like my ex didn’t even like meI didn’t agree to a sexless existence. The constant rejection by my ex was soul-crushingSun Nov 10 2024 - 05:00
‘I have to choose between love or moving abroad alone for my career – what’s the right call?’Ask Roe: ‘I’m worried about making the wrong decision and regretting it’Sun Nov 03 2024 - 00:00
‘How should I talk to my teens about masturbation?’Surely it’s vital to tell them to discover what pleases them and to get to know their bodies, or is this still taboo?Sun Oct 27 2024 - 05:00
‘I‘m falling in love with a man who’s just out of a 12-year relationship - and still lives with his ex’Ask Roe: ‘Do you think I’m crazy to get involved with someone so fresh out of a relationship with so much baggage?’Sun Oct 20 2024 - 05:00
Ask Roe: My boyfriend has lost interest in sex. I’m a bit scared of all the rejectionAsk Roe: Unless I’m all dressed up or wearing make-up with my hair done, he’s not interestedSun Oct 13 2024 - 05:00
My boyfriend’s parents are generally kind, loving people – but they keep spouting bigoted opinionsAsk Roe: My boyfriend agrees with me and will occasionally argue with them, but usually drops it to end the conversationSun Oct 06 2024 - 05:00
Dating in college: ‘It can be easy to throw around the phrase healthy relationship’Ask Roe: Know what is healthy and unhealthy in a relationship, practise and value kindness, make a point of being yourself, and understand consentSun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
‘My girlfriend has serious trust issues. I’ve stopped mentioning any women, even in passing’Ask Roe: I’ve stopped mentioning any women, even in passing, and some of my very old friendships are now fading as a resultSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
All the lonely men: how to survive the ‘friendship recession’Men are facing a crisis of loneliness. Rethinking the shape and structure of their friendships can helpSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
I ended my last relationship and am worried I won’t find anyone elseAsk Roe: I have been ghosted by numerous women and have gone on dates with others only for them to peter outSun Sept 15 2024 - 05:00
My partner and I are talking about marriage and I’m panickingAsk Roe: There are certain incompatibilities in our ideals – he wants kids, I want to adoptSun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
A friend I had feelings for ghosted me, and I can’t seem to move onThis friend never explicitly said they liked me but they did allude to it in a flirty, not-so-subtle waySun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
My ex was emotionally abusive. Should I find out if he abused other people?Ask Roe: Researching his past may keep you emotionally connected to himSun Aug 25 2024 - 05:00
Artificial intimacy: ‘Is it bad to fall in love with an AI? Is there something wrong with me?’AI-powered dating apps promise to facilitate romance but the evidence suggests technology perpetuates lonelinessSat Aug 24 2024 - 05:00
‘I’m a married woman but my work crush is getting complicated’Ask Roe: I pursued any contact I could have with this man, as I couldn’t stop thinking about him and I thought it was harmlessSun Aug 18 2024 - 05:00
I’m not out to my family and it’s stopping me from datingAsk Roe: I never wanted to be in a relationship in my teens but now I think it is something I would like to experienceSun Aug 11 2024 - 05:00
After years of consenting to sex I didn’t want, I want to take a break from it. How do I tell my husband?Ask Roe: I’m realising I often consent to sex with my husband not because I want to have sex but because I think I ‘should’Sun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
I met the love of my life but my mother does not like him and is against our plans to marryAsk Roe: Their reaction is causing a lot of tension and delaying our returnSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
Where can my wife and I access porn that is both legal and erotic?Ask Roe: we both feel that we need some more help with arousal, but we are afraid to access porn in case the guards end up at our doorSun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
‘The more passively you use Twitter, the more detrimental effects you have on your wellbeing’Logging on to X/Twitter is likely to exacerbate feelings of loneliness, boredom, outrage and political polarisation, researchers at the University of Toronto foundThu Jul 18 2024 - 06:01
My best friend is getting married – and her decisions are making me want to end our friendshipAsk Roe: If I was getting married, this person would definitely be one of my bridesmaids, and it’s making me think that I’m not as important to her as she is to meSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:00
My fiance and I finally have everything we wanted – so why do I keep lashing out at him?Ask Roe: I find it difficult to not blame him for the smallest of things and it leads to most of our argumentsSun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
Bad therapy: ‘After some of our sessions I couldn’t go into work the next day’Making the decision to go to therapy is a huge exercise of trust, but what can you do if that trust is misplaced?Sat Jul 06 2024 - 05:00
Six ways to reboot your sex life in a relationshipForging and maintaining sexual intimacy in a relationship takes work, but there are some approaches that will helpMon Jul 01 2024 - 05:00
I saw a video of my ex-girlfriend on a porn site but I don’t think she knowsAsk Roe: Should I find a way to inform her about it or just stay out of it?Sun Jun 30 2024 - 00:00
I think I’m in love with my ‘situationship’ but he doesn’t feel the sameAsk Roe: I think we could be great together but he’s flaky and can go radio silent for daysSun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
I thought I’d found love at work but he says I misunderstoodAsk Roe: We would often talk in work, and at work events, we would spend the evening together. It got to a point where we would sometimes even go for coffee or a drink outside of workSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
My husband has found a new life direction – and I feel left behindAsk Roe: I feel isolated in our relationship and I want to be able to communicate my feelings with my husband without fear of an argument. How to proceed?Mon Jun 10 2024 - 12:13
Am I settling in my relationship? Or am I just being realistic?Ask Roe: The difference between being realistic and settling often boils down to the nature of compromise in your relationshipSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women; Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children - listening to a wider narrativeNew works by Caroline Magennis and Nicole Louie feature interviews with many childfree women and add more voices to what is often a very narrow and judgmental conversationSat Jun 01 2024 - 05:00
I’ve gone through some big life changes and don’t know if my husband and I fit anymoreAsk Roe: I feel like a different person and the connection I had with him feels different, like it’s just faded completelySun May 26 2024 - 05:00
I’m the only single person at weekly family dinners, and they’re a nightmareAsk Roe: When I have made my feelings known to my siblings in the past, I have felt dismissed as inexperienced for being single and childlessSun May 19 2024 - 05:00
‘My wife wants to have regular sex with another man and I regret going along with it’Ask Roe: I’m worried that, in agreeing to her request in principle, I’m running a risk of my family falling apartSun May 12 2024 - 05:00
Ask Roe: My partner is increasingly right-wing. He keeps complaining about Ireland acquiescing to the 'woke mob'Ask Roe: He is a great person otherwise and I love him dearly. I desperately want him to revert to the person he was before leaving IrelandSun May 05 2024 - 05:00
I’m a man in my 30s. I want to date women casually but don’t want to hurt anyoneAsk Roe: Even after going on multiple dates, I still feel like I haven’t found the person for meSun Apr 28 2024 - 05:00
Suddenly coming off antidepressants can cause emotional, cognitive and social difficultiesResearchers explore emotional and social impacts of SSRI withdrawal, and call for more support from GPs and loved ones during weaning-off periodThu Apr 25 2024 - 06:01
‘My friend’s toxic ex is back and I can’t keep listening to her complain about him’Ask Roe: She has started sleeping with him again and is back to answering his late-night calls, even as he’s told her he ‘can’t commit to her right now’Sun Apr 21 2024 - 05:00
My boyfriend and I get into horrible fights, so how do we learn to argue better?Ask Roe: There are ways to resolve this problem and chief among them is being prepared to talk out your difficultiesSun Apr 14 2024 - 06:00
‘My partner has become abusive since we had our baby’Ask Roe: I feel I can’t do anything right for him, he takes offence at everything I saySun Apr 07 2024 - 05:00
