‘Married for 60 years and we’re still going strong’:The secrets to lasting love

‘Married for 60 years and we’re still going strong’:The secrets to lasting love

Why do some couples last?Sharing common interests and accepting your own role in your relationship’s failures and successes are essential tools to keeping things on track.

  • byDilvin Yasa

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The new library movement:Instead of borrowing a book,you borrow a human

The new library movement:Instead of borrowing a book,you borrow a human

In a growing trend in libraries across the world,you can ‘borrow’ people to hear their stories.

  • byTim Elliott
Being ‘monogamish’:Why I opened up my marriage

Being ‘monogamish’:Why I opened up my marriage

Using monogamy to reassure yourself that your partner will never leave is like insisting something does not exist merely because you cannot see it,writes Lucy Fry.

  • byLucy Fry
The disappointing question I most often got after writing a book
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The disappointing question I most often got after writing a book

Sometimes accompanied by a look of suspicion,asking how I found the time implies writing a book is somehow scandalous or self-indulgent,certainly for a woman in my position.

  • byAl Campbell
I found solace at school. I hope all children can get the same chance

I found solace at school. I hope all children can get the same chance

Years which hold so much promise fade because books and technology are unaffordable,excursions are missed and that lost backpack and lunchbox are never replaced.

  • byWendy Harmer
Lonely and living under minimum wage,but Lila’s life as a nun is worth it

Lonely and living under minimum wage,but Lila’s life as a nun is worth it

Sometimes the path to spirituality is a long and winding one. Three people share how their lives took an unexpected religious turn.

  • byElli Jacobs
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How I found love again after a devastating loss

How I found love again after a devastating loss

When a person we love dies,a part of us dies,too. But as I discovered,life does come for us again.

  • byNatasha Sholl
Michelle Law:The gift from my grandmother that I still hold close

Michelle Law:The gift from my grandmother that I still hold close

I barely knew my maternal grandmother but as an 11-year-old,a trip to Canada created a bond between us.

  • byMichelle Law
I was clinically dead for two minutes. This is what I saw

I was clinically dead for two minutes. This is what I saw

There are so many clichés around death. There was nothing unique about mine,apart from the fact I came back from it.

  • byChris Harrison
Brendan Cowell:‘I was anti-east. Yet here I now stand,Brendo from Bronte’

Brendan Cowell:‘I was anti-east. Yet here I now stand,Brendo from Bronte’

Waves of delight hit home for this former inner-city diehard.

  • byBrendan Cowell
‘It works in a way I never thought possible’:Erin Holland on her marriage to Ben Cutting

‘It works in a way I never thought possible’:Erin Holland on her marriage to Ben Cutting

A few days after their wedding,Holland’s cricket star husband left for India for four months. Here,she opens up about how they navigate their competing schedules.

  • byJane Rocca