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DECEMBER 2025
'I sent the wrong text to my family group chat. It destroyed my relationship with my mum.'
'My partner and I started asking each other these 5 questions every January. It's worked wonders.'
'I was uninvited from my son's wedding without an explanation. Two years later, I got a text.'
'My post-divorce glow up had nothing to do with a revenge body.'
'My partner hid his addiction until after our wedding. Then I found him in his study at 2am.'
Jess and David have different definitions of cheating. This is what happened when they went to therapy.
There's a third person in our marriage. They saved it.
'My husband convinced me to move overseas. Just weeks later, I discovered why.'
Jo Yates thought she was just burnt out. Then a routine check-up turned her world upside down.
'We had enough.' 6 women share why they removed someone from a group chat.
'As soon as I saw my husband on our wedding day, I almost ran away. Now I wish I had.'
'I was celebrating my new boobs when my surgeon FaceTimed me. Within weeks, I was in hospital.'
Mel ended it after Ethan crossed a line, but they still act like a couple. Here is a therapist's advice.
'She had me fooled.' 6 women on the moment they realised their mother-in-law was a narcissist.
'I dreaded my first Christmas as newly single. Instead, it became the sexiest week of my life.'
'She told me to take weight-loss injections.' Just 4 of the very worst in-law Christmas stories.
'My husband told me he donated sperm as a one-off. Then he got 11 phone calls.'
This 60-second hack will actually get your Christmas to-do list done.
'I smiled at our Christmas photo. Then one comment crushed me inside.'
'After 15 years together, my husband died. Then our entire marriage unravelled.'
'My best friend's wedding had everything she said it wouldn't. Including the truth about us.'
'Dad says mum is "just as gorgeous as ever." We all know she's slipping away.'
When's the last time you checked your vagina? The health check you're probably missing.
'5 years ago, I had a trivial argument with my siblings. It ended up exposing a family secret.'
'There's a quiet kind of abuse we never talk about. I lived it.'
'There's a lie many women tell every Christmas. We need to talk about it.'
'Last Christmas I handed my son to his dad in tears. This year will be different.'
'I thought my partner worshipped me. Then I discovered what he was really doing.'
'I thought my Uber driver was just lost. Then I caught his eye in the mirror.'
'My psychologist husband convinced me I was mentally ill. Then I had a conversation with a stranger.'
Dana lost a baby at 19 weeks. Then, deep in the outback, she found a joey inside a pouch.
'With just 7 words, my maid-of-honour told me my marriage wouldn't last. She was right.'
'From the outside I looked like a perfect mum. Inside, I was drinking myself numb.'
The 'grey divorce' phenomenon that no one's talking about.
'I got real and hired someone to manage my calendar (and brain) for me.'
Carla and Gwen are sisters who barely speak. This is the simple homework that forced them to reconnect.
'Weddings make me jealous. It's not for the reason you think.'
'I was 32 and ready for a family. Then I found out my partner's life-changing secret.'
Rhiannon only turned her back to make a coffee. Within minutes, her daughter was gone.
'We need to talk about the feeling every single person experiences, yet no one wants to admit.'
'I thought my partner was the one. Then I found his notes app I wasn't meant to read.'
'The December moment every woman knows too well.'
Inside Her Home: A CEO's $1,000-a-fortnight Art Deco-filled Melbourne home.
'The cruel "rule" my mother-in-law has when it comes to family photos.'
'Turns out there are 6 different types of people pleasers. Mine has sent me into a spiral.'
'After 10 years of trying to fix things with my estranged kids, one truth finally made me stop.'
19 questions that will immediately improve your conversations with friends.
'I wrote a story about the judgement people with curly hair face. Then came the comments.'
'I knew my answer about kids would end us. I said it anyway.'
'I'm a children's creator on YouTube. No one is talking about what the ban means for us.'
Helicopter kids hated being tracked by their parents. Now they're tracking their friends.
People born in December are superior to everyone else: A theory.
'I trusted my best friend with everything. Then she backstabbed me in a way I never saw coming.'
The rise of the 'Zombie Marriage' and why it's more damaging than divorce.
'My son's girlfriend is basically perfect in every way. But she's the same age as me.'
There's a reason you cry during every musical. And it has a name.
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