Genital herpes is putting a dampener on our marriage

No sooner are we free of herpes than one of us infects the other and we have to abstain from sex until it clears up

I’m beginning to waver on the sex ban

I said no sex to my husband until he goes back to his AA meetings. It feels ridiculous, but what will it mean if I break it?

I want to have an orgasm before I die

I am currently undergoing chemotherapy and was circumcised as a child. Can you advise me?

At a family support meeting, I spot a man I find attractive

I start to think all sorts of inappropriate things about the man who looks like a young Jeff Bridges. What would he look like naked?

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'