Has social isolation made you reconsider your loving priorities? Just as CoronaVirus was overwhelming the world, I burst into tears while...

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." W.H. Auden Last year I made a simple, low risk New Year’s resolution: I wo...

The Special Sauce of love may simply be staying fascinated with your partner I used to have a few rules about the men I ‘liked’ on dating...

Too often when love ends, the people who adore us will insist we’re still wonderful and the person who left us the idiot. Think again.

High on love or felled by loss? It's simply temporary insanity I once developed a crush on a married man so consuming I could barely func...

Not every marriage is worth saving. But no marriage deserves to be abandoned during the most stressful point in its lifetime. I recently ...

It doesn't get any better than dating at midlife. Trust me If I were a drinking buddy of ‘Stella Gray’, The Guardian newspaper’s 50 year-...

Is the one who strays the only cheat? 2018 was my year of dubious honor. The New York Times publish my essay, ‘What Sleeping With Married...

Is your relationship stable? Consider its chemistry.

Conflict, not compatibility, will tell you what you really need to understand about your partner I’ve done most of my internet dating usi...

I once arrived late to a school bake sale with my son who, when he discovered everything with chocolate had already been purchased, burst...

Pick (up) on someone your own age I know a talented, vivacious, woman living in Greenwich Village, who creates fixed and ephemeral art in...

Your limbic system is telling you how to love. Listen carefully. I once dated a man who asked me, during our first online conversation, i...

Dating isn't just for the romantically inclined A few months ago I went to Paris on the Eurostar simply because tickets were so damn chea...

Your five a day isn't just about fruit and veg Romanticism has done heaps of harm when it comes to living a successful love life. Yes, yo...

On becoming non-verbally articulate The other day a friend of mine was sighing over how too many women strain his patience when it comes ...

Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. - Iago to Othello A few years ago, b...

Can more than two be equals in love? When I started internet dating, I was quite clear:  ”Jealous types need not apply. I like variety.” ...

When it comes to online dating, will abundant choice lead to love or drive us mad? When I found myself, at 49, suddenly single, I was hel...