Dating After Bereavement: Making Room for Mixed Feelings

You may want companionship and still deeply miss the person who died. An enjoyable evening can be followed by sadness or guilt.

Feeling Close While Recovering From Illness

You may be missing affection while also feeling tired, sore or unfamiliar with your body. A partner may be unsure what is comfortable and say nothing.

Retirement and Relationships: More Time, New Adjustments

You looked forward to having more time together. Now you are negotiating the kitchen, the television and who needs a quiet hour.

Supporting a Partner Through Menopause: Ask, Don't Guess

Your partner seems tired, uncomfortable or less interested in sex, and you want to help. It can be tempting to explain every change as menopause.

Intimacy After Having Children: Finding Each Other Again

You finally sit down together, then someone wakes up. Between childcare, work and interrupted sleep, it can be hard to recognise the couple you were before.

Ending a Dating Connection Kindly and Clearly

You have enjoyed parts of getting to know someone, but you do not want to continue.

Dating After Divorce: Starting Again at Your Own Speed

A new date can bring excitement and a surprising amount of old feeling. You may be confident one day and unsure the next.

When Intimacy Starts to Feel Like Pressure

You say you would like to wait, and the other person keeps asking. Or they make you feel guilty for changing your mind.

How to Mention an Erection Concern to Someone You Are Dating

You want to get closer, but worry that an erection change will be misunderstood. Waiting until you feel anxious in bed can make the conversation harder.

First-Date Nerves: Give Yourself a Smaller Job

You are choosing clothes and already imagining every awkward silence.

Privacy While Dating: What You Can Ask For

You like someone, but you do not want details of your private life shared in a group chat or online. It can feel awkward to bring that up early.

Finding Your Pace in a New Relationship

You are enjoying someone new, but their idea of moving slowly may be different from yours.