Psychology

On a whirlwind morning, a couple learns if they’re facing an unplanned pregnancy

7 minutes

When drawing your muse hundreds of times becomes an exercise in love

7 minutes

A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea

9 minutes

‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition

3 minutes

‘Let me dream you into my reality’: memories illuminate an unthinkable isolation

12 minutes

The right person

Contemporary wisdom says that happiness is the measure of a marriage. But is that a harmful way of judging relationships?

Joshua Coleman

Skiing blind is a challenge – but it helps to have a loved one to guide you

20 minutes

Tainted love

Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands

Anna Machin

Art students divulge (and animate) the dating pet peeves they find unforgivable

3 minutes

When crushes become crushing – how to know if you’re in a ‘limerent episode’

4 minutes

Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old

7 minutes

Attached

From cradle to grave, we are soothed and rocked by attachments – our source of joy and pain, and the essence of who we are

Mostafa El-Kalliny & Zoe R Donaldson

Treasure them

Sure, lovers and children are great. But friends are more than ever the heart of happiness, of family and of love itself

Anna Machin

A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner and his guard reunite as equals 13 years later

21 minutes

Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders

5 minutes

Turn off the gaslight

The skilled manipulator casts a shadow of doubt over everything that you feel or think. Therapy can bring the daylight in

Ramani Durvasula

After traumatic childhoods, two sisters dedicate their golden years to fun

15 minutes

‘What does sex mean to you?’ A fly-on-the-wall view of relationship counselling

50 minutes