Rosie Green: Would I blend it like Beckham?
Mr Green?’ There is an awkward silence until the boyfriend realises the waiter is addressing him. We are on holiday and he is being...
Rosie Green: Chore wars? I’m throwing in the towel
My boyfriend is admiring the new matting in his garden – and I am finding this triggering.
Matting, for the uninitiated, is a sheet of...
Ask Caroline: ‘I’ve lied to my friend about her ex’
Q. A couple we know very well, who’ve been married for 15 years, have recently split up after the husband left for a woman...
Ask Caroline: ‘My teenage daughter won’t talk to me’
Q. I am in my 50s, and six months ago I left my wife for someone else after years of an unhappy marriage. I...
Rosie Green: My coldest ever hot date
I’m freezing my boyfriend out. I mean this literally, not metaphorically – we are in a cryotherapy chamber in a swanky spa and have...
Ask Caroline: ‘There’s no intimacy or love between us’
Q. I am 54 and live with my partner (we don’t have children) in what most people would consider to be a lovely house...
Rosie Green: I’m divorced, but I’m not a man-eater
‘Is he straight?’ asked my daughter.
I replied in the affirmative. ‘Well, lose the kisses.’
I was messaging a photographer with whom I have a friendly...
Rosie Green: My relationship mantra – if he’s fit, we fit
Last week I found myself wondering if I could keep up with my boyfriend. Not mentally or sexually – but physically.
This came about because,...
Ask Caroline: ‘My partner won’t stop lying to me’
Q. I’m 26 and think I need to end it with my 23-year-old boyfriend. We’ve been dating for 18 months and he is kind,...
Rosie Green: The night our sex life lost its fizz
The boyfriend and I had planned a night away to celebrate his birthday.
It had been inked in the diary for months, so excitement had...
