Mrs Mills solves all your problems

I had a young assistant once. She was so traumatised by the experience that I cannot bear to repeat it

How did I get here? Not quite paradise

It sounded so depressingly female, this pity for someone who’s treated you badly

How to live happy ever after

Tops tips for wedded bliss

Are eldest children really a cut above?

Order of birth is said to influence everything from IQ to personality. But is it a myth or hard scientific fact?

Anthoney Wright and Josephine Jenkins

The British soul singer, 30, and his maternal grandmother, who raised him

Mrs Mills: style pioneer

Top tip: you don’t need to buy wax to remove hairs, as you can recycle your own

Significant others

The relationships that make a life: Sir Antony Sher

Dignitas: I couldn’t let him die alone

Laura McDaid made the hardest choice of her life: to accompany her former boyfriend to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic

Mrs Mills: chansons d'amour

A voluminous black gown means you can wear whatever you like underneath. if it is really hot, go naked (I usually do)

Brides-to-be: advice about single friends at your wedding

There are some things your single friends don't want at the wedding, such as being seated next to the social rejects

Significant others

The relationships that make a life: Peter Jones

How did I get here? Gone to the dogs

If Brian Wilson can have a shrink at home, then why can't I have my dog marmite as my psychoanalyst

Fifth of women choose career over babies

Trend marked among 'women of higher social class, with better qualifications and who were brought up as only children'

Affair to remember: an old love is rekindled

A reader recalls a love affair 28 years ago that had died away with the usual trappings of adulthood, until ...

Dear Tanya: I just can’t cope any more

Violence and drink wrecked our family life — and now my little sister needs me, I am losing the strength to carry on

Shotgun weddings a growing niche in Japan

Marriage celebrations involving pregnant brides account for nearly a third of the Japanese wedding industry

Mrs Mills: hotel horror

What is the point of occupying a higher position on the social scale if there is nobody around to notice that you are up there?

We are our own harshest body critics

Test have confirmed what we've suspected for years: It's women that expect us to have perfect figures, not men