Today’s the day most workers clock on for the new year. You can almost feel the collective groaning. But at least a few of you are feeling immensely relieved. In houses around the suburbs there are parents feeling relaxed for the first time in weeks. For couples waging war against each other, today is their[...]

It’s never been easier to have an affair . . .  and it’s never been harder to keep it secret. I have lifted those words from the brilliant Esther Perel, sex therapist and author, but I have found them nearly impossible to get out of my head. We live in a world where we are[...]

In the case of relationship breakdown modern technology has saved a lot of fights – you can easily download that rare ELO bootleg and you probably don’t need to dig in over the actual CD. Seinfeld, Friends and The Simpsons are always playing on some channel somewhere so you can probably let go of the[...]