My husband is skipping his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
I've told him no sex until he gets support with staying sober. If it's not AA, he'll have to find something else
R is four months sober
My husband is getting all the praise for staying sober after rehab – meanwhile, I'm shattered and seething
Botox silences women’s faces – and freezes out empathy in body language
Jessie Cole: Young women are using Botox as a 'preventive measure', but facial paralysis inhibits the ability to mirror others' expressions
I tried to stop my husband drinking
R was too drunk to make it up to our hotel room on our wedding night and had to be lifted
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There by Cheryl Strayed – review
Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar agony aunt columns will infuriate some but delight many more, writes Viv Groskop
This column will change your life: life-choice evangelists
'Their real motivation, you suspect, isn't their certainty that marriage, or parenthood, would be best for you,' Oliver Burkeman says. 'It's that they worry that it's not best for them'
Britain’s loneliness epidemic
People in Britain are living longer, and increasingly, spending their last years alone. Now more of us than ever before describe ourselves as lonely. Homa Khaleeli finds out how to beat the loneliness epidemic
Are we getting childbirth wrong?
The conversation: Kirstie Allsopp discusses caesareans, guilt and breastfeeding with birth guru Sheila Kitzinger
Five people describe living on the margins of modern Britain
How easy is it to fall through the cracks in modern Britain? A former prostitute, a homeless man, an asylum seeker, a mental health sufferer and a drug dealer tell their stories
World Aids Day: dating when you’re HIV positive
Jack Hewson: For all the medical advances in treating and preventing transmission of the HIV virus, a normal love life for those with a positive diagnosis remains elusive