Your sex questions answered

Sex counsel: how to handle virginity

Remember, there is a world of difference between having sex and pleasing a partner

Sex advice: sex after breast cancer

Sex has become difficult for this reader who has given up HRT and suffered from breast cancer

Affairs to remember

I promised to leave my husband, but all I did was make excuses

Each week, a reader recalls a love affair. Today, a married woman recalls what happened when she fell for another man

Affair to remember: a fling with my married boss

Each week, a reader recalls a love affair. Today, Larissa Archer describes the briefest of flings with her married boss

Affair to remember: When I discovered he was having an affair

Each week a reader recalls a love affair. Here a woman describes the moment she discovered her husband’s infidelity

Affair to remember: Siberian office romance

Each week a reader recalls a love affair. Here, a reader tells the story of a relationship with a colleague who she first met on the phone

Relationships articles and features

Why Mother Nature is a conniving bitch

The less one wants to conceive, the more it is likely to happen

Single people remember, remember the 5th of November

Things you only know if you're single...that lone rangers (rather longingly) remember, remember the 5th of November.

Problem panel: the perils of a good-looking date

Marie O’Riordan says yes, he may be very attractive, but don’t forget your own worth and dignity. You deserve better than this

Why men leave ill partners

Men are seven times more likely than women to leave a seriously ill partner, a study has found. So why are males less able to cope?

Break-ups and divorce

Problem panel: dealing with an embarassing sister

A sibling’s recent split with a long-term partner means she’s out and about — and how

Divorce parties are helping beat break-up blues

Forget moping in your pyjamas, you can throw a celebration complete with Just Divorced L-plates and wedding ring coffins

In pre-nup and in wealth

Heiress Katrin Radmacher made legal history when a court backed her prenuptial deal. She discusses details with the Sunday Times

Intimacy and relating

How the Tango could save your relationship

It’s been called "vertical sex" but the world’s sexiest dance can also heal troubled relationships, our writer says

Online dating for lesbians? Forget it

Lucy Ledstone got a great response when, single at 45, she posted an internet dating profile. But gay women lie too

• Internet dating is for everyone (except me, of course)

• 10 things to know: internet dating