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Love, actually, at 61: 'We have survived together a long time'

We've grown old in our own home – we have no plans to leave

Help Me Hera: All my friends are having babies

Dating Files: A 60-year-old who has sex when she is 'confident there will be no violence'

The cost of being: A part-time worker caring for an elderly parent

Love, actually, at 43: ‘Our relationship got even stronger after I transitioned’

Saying goodbye to a loved one from a ringside seat

When a wild animal becomes your neighbour

The cost of being: A new grad living on their own after a ‘disastrous’ breakup

What we know about Faradays, Auckland’s new fancy department store

Help Me Hera: I am not your clown

Dating Files: A 29-year-old who has ‘only dated men in the past but open to dating women’

The cost of being: A ‘stingy’ 20-something who just bought their first home

Love, actually, at 25: ‘We actually only just recently started to have sex’

I was a door-to-door salesman for a ‘devilcorp’

Help Me Hera: Why does the universe have it in for me?

Dating Files: An HR professional who resents people ‘becoming counsellors on the first date’

Should we really be worried about AI ending humankind?

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‘Tunnel, tunnel, tunnel’: on board the first train through the City Rail Link

Love, actually, at 53: ‘I resent the fact that he’s playing video games while I work two jobs’

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