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After the affair
What happens when you blow up your life in pursuit of an affair? One woman shares the fallout few ever talk about
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The lonely, curated life of the fashion influencer
Poverty, sugar daddies and face-altering apps- what a social media star found when she moved to the influencer capital of the world.
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Jessica Rose Williams
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'I love my husband...which is why I'm divorcing him.'
Should you leave a marriage when you still love your partner? This woman thinks so, after walking away from her husband of 21 years
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Lisa Quinn
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Can a friendship survive children?
The reality of what happens when two becomes three...
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Catriona Innes
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How NOT to have children
A guide from the other side...
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My secret regret at being a mother
Tales from the frontline of motherhood...
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Farrah @Substack
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'My mid-life affair with another woman'
Why women of a certain age are falling in love- and lust, with other women.
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Farrah @Substack
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The unfashionable truth about life inside a psych ward
As a teenager Natalie Carmichael was admitted to a psychiatric ward. A decade later she looks back on that time with fondness
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Farrah Storr
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Can we ever make peace with losing our looks?
After nearly thirty years of dating, writer Iona Italia found herself being rejected on the basis of her looks. Here's why, at the age of 53, it stung…
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Farrah @Substack
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Can you be addicted to success?
Achievement brings its own highs, lows and terrifying obsession. One high-flying achiever looks back on a life lived in the pursuit of success at all…
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Daisy Buchanan
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'How I fell out of fashion...'
On the surface, Ellen Burney was living the glossy magazine writer’s dream, with her own column, a party invitation every night of the week and …a dark…
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Ellen Burney
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The Secret Regrets of Motherhood
It’s the one thing no woman will articulate- the idea that if you could do it all over again, you probably wouldn’t
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Farrah @Substack
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