Relationships

The name of a high-profile Queenslander entwined in an extortion charge must temporarily remain under wraps while police prepare an application to prevent it from becoming public knowledge.

Binding financial agreements take time and money to obtain. Here's how they work. 

For a long time, I considered my teenage crush the one that got away. That all changed when we reconnected two decades later.   

Judith Geppert has an impressive resume of achievements and celebrations, but her capabilities are often questioned. Her dog Teddy, however, never treated her any differently.   

While financial tension between partners isn't always about money, many people clash over values, spending habits and how they respond to financial pressure.

It's not just practical and emotional reasons that get in the way of executing a break-up. There are many ways your brain is making you want to stay.     

Singer/guitarist Mick Medew and self-proclaimed punk grandma Ursula Collie were in their mid-50s when they met and bonded over a mutual love of live music. A decade on, they're musical and life partners.

It's the yearning ache that comes from reckoning with the imperfect human mother we get, against the idealised fantasy version we wish for.

Experts say more separated couples are continuing to stay under the same roof because housing is too expensive or scarce.

One of South Australia's most senior Anglicans is stripped of his position over an undisclosed relationship with a priest he ordained, in a case described by the church as "a gross ethical failure".

The goalposts moved dramatically on Beau and Lucy Vernon's life plans, but it brought them closer together. 

Podcaster Dee Salmin says people should steer clear of traditional dating advice and focus more on themselves.

Of the students who have attended the Alternative Suspension program, 67 per cent have received no further suspensions.

There are biological and psychological reasons behind why women experience more disrupted sleep than men, but experts say the mental load is another powerful yet less obvious contributor. 

Our recent stories about the grief of family estrangement resonated strongly. Here's how some Australians have been affected by it.

After a casual fling led to a surprise pregnancy in my mid-20s, I was parenting alone. A phone call two years later changed everything.

Our "ordinary understanding" of de facto relationships may not match up with the legal definition and that can cause big surprises for people in the event of a break-up.

Estrangement usually begins after a significant traumatic experience with a loved one, experts say.   

I might be on a different path, but I can still love and be loved in ways that don't require me to be a mother or a partner.

Three women share their experiences of never having a partner — not by choice — and what that's like when you wish you did.