Blind date: ‘He’s a cat lover and I’m allergic. I would hate to make him have to choose!’ 13 December 2025 at 01:00

Blind date: ‘He’s a cat lover and I’m allergic. I would hate to make him have to choose!’

13 December 2025 at 01:00

Rita, 35, a travel agent, meets Tom, 40, a social media manager

What were you hoping for?
To have a refreshing new experience. I was curious to see who the Guardian would match me with.

I now declare you throuple: how to plan a polyamorous wedding 11 December 2025 at 12:00

I now declare you throuple: how to plan a polyamorous wedding

The Guardian

By:Madeleine Aggeler

11 December 2025 at 12:00

A throuple in Tennessee shares how they planned a fairytale wedding, from rings to first dance

On the day of her wedding, Janie Coppola, 30, overslept. She woke up to a friend banging on her bedroom window, and had to quickly do her hair before rushing to the venue, a dreamy castle in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Fortunately, the rest of the day went smoothly, and on the afternoon of 18 October, she walked down the aisle in a big white dress to be wed to her husband. And her wife.

“Your favorite throuple got hitched,” Margaret French, 32, Janie’s wife, captioned an Instagram post about the day.

The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world 9 December 2025 at 12:23

The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world

The Guardian

By:Stuart Heritage

9 December 2025 at 12:23

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are the latest A-listers to announce their relationship status online. But there are many ways to do it - from fancy dress to panicked deletions

As a mark of pure intent, going Instagram official has become a firmly entrenched dating marker. To post a picture of you and your new partner on Instagram – on the grid, mind you, not hiding behind the cowardice of a story – is to not only declare that you are in love, but also that you are confident enough in your future to share it with the world.

As such, Katy Perry’s decision to go Instagram official with Justin Trudeau is a classic of the genre. Long dogged by rumours that they might be together, Perry this week debuted a sanctioned image of them both. They are cheek to cheek. They are smiling, albeit in that slightly strained hurry-up-and-take-it way you do when someone decides to shoot a whole reel of photos. Katy Perry is pulling the exact same face she did when she stared into the camera that time she sort of went into space, which is how you know that it is really serious. Good luck to the pair of them.

This is how we do it: ‘Her work crush led to us having clinging-on-for-dear-life sex’ 7 December 2025 at 06:00

This is how we do it: ‘Her work crush led to us having clinging-on-for-dear-life sex’

The Guardian

By:As told to

7 December 2025 at 06:00

Growing up gay in the 90s, Verity and Darya lacked the confidence to talk about their desires. Verity’s attraction to a colleague changed all that

• How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously

I never felt that stomach-churning excitement and uncertainty we associate with desire

The truth about the ‘gender care gap’: are men really more likely to abandon their ill wives? 6 December 2025 at 07:00

The truth about the ‘gender care gap’: are men really more likely to abandon their ill wives?

The Guardian

By:Gaby Hinsliff

6 December 2025 at 07:00

It’s one thing facing a major diagnosis; it’s quite another dealing with your partner pulling away. But does the stereotype match the reality?

Jess never dreamed that she was going to get sick, nor did she consider what it would mean for her love life if she did. When she first started dating her boyfriend, they were both in their late 20s, living busy, active lives. “Sport was something we did a lot of and we did it together: we worked hard, played hard, we went for bike rides and went running and played golf together.”

But around a year into their relationship, all that stopped abruptly when Jess was diagnosed with long Covid, the poorly understood syndrome that in some people follows a Covid infection. For her, it meant “a general shutdown of my body: lungs, heart, stomach, really bad brain fog”. She went from being a sporty, independent 29-year-old with a successful career to sleeping all day and relying on her boyfriend for everything.