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In praise of friendship
The world’s most admired writers and poets have long extolled its virtues. Here, Yvonne Van Dongen explains why she’d take friendship - old and new - over romance any day.
The world’s most admired writers and poets have long extolled its virtues. Here, Yvonne Van Dongen explains why she’d take friendship - old and new - over romance any day.
In light of the appalling wedding behaviour that will do the social media rounds for days to come, here are ten specific etiquette rules to attending a wedding.
A Dutch couple are two months through their nine-month tour of NZ, but not everything has gone to plan.
Her smile says 'congratulations' but her eyes say something else. The wedding photo that went viral, for all the wrong reasons.
The ministry released updated guidelines on sexuality education today, for the first time focusing on decision-making around sex and cultural differences.
I have just one question, writes Shelley Bridgeman. Where’s the wife bonus when you need it? Okay, two questions: Can they be backdated?
One of New Zealand’s most experienced private investigators offers advice on how to deal with stalkers.
The couple loved each other and wanted to stay together - but in the age of Tinder and Ashley Madison, they also both wanted to have other options.
Question: "Why is it, when a lesbian couple marries, one wears a dress and the other wears pants (usually a tuxedo-like suit)?"
It seems absurd for people to be allergic to semen - the basis of human reproduction. But an expert says he's found that up to 12 per cent of women may have the condition.
When and how, in the minefield of marital communication, can you have these conversations without them ending in a terrific, door-slamming row?
They run their Upper East Side homes like domestic CEOs, work tirelessly to improve their family's social standing and now want an annual perk from their husbands.
A new study suggests that the love hormone, oxytocin, has similar effects to being drunk, and not just the more pleasant aspects of inebriation.
Jane Hawking tells Celia Walden how she remains good friends with her physicist ex-husband.
Sweet son Alex Lyngaas has secretly filmed his mother, Eva, for a year and crafted a video to help her find a boyfriend.
If the mythical creature that is the "good wife" is devoted and selfless and bakes Victoria sponge cakes to die for then who, honestly, does not occasionally fall short?
Are you tired of The Bachelor's fairytale illusions and want people to know the truth about being a single, straight woman in New Zealand?
A bride-to-be has been forced to cancel her wedding plans after immigration officers deported her New Zealand partner of six years in front of her.
If teenagers are getting their life lessons from porn, then we're not merely contemplating the end of innocence, we're contemplating the end of romance.
When Arthur Hoffman passed away in his sleep, his beloved wife of 69 years couldn't bear it. Two days later, Paddy Hoffman also slipped away.
A bride has been left devastated after falling out with her wedding photographer, claiming he branded her "ugly" and a "bridezilla".
Amid our rapidly changing attitudes about sex, a seeming contradiction has emerged: Millennials tend to be cool with casual relations.
It's always seemed to me that being in a relationship is, in large part, about bearing witness. You take a front-row seat to your partner's daily trials and triumphs and they do the same for you.
A London woman has created 'thin' and 'fat' online dating profiles using size 10 and size 18 photos to find out if men really prefer skinny girls.
Man shamed outside train station for cheating on his girlfriend, with women taking turns to pelt him with eggs.
Among people in the 30-34 age bracket with a university degree or similar qualification, there are 155 women for every 100 men.
Kiwi women are battling an "educational man drought", as the number of well-educated and available men is decreasing.
Educated and ambitious single Kiwi women struggle to find their male equals, write Russell Blackstock and Kathryn van Beek.
William met Kate Middleton at university. When the couple got engaged in October 2010 the announcement was first made on Twitter the following month.