The first time

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THERE’S a nice new girl working at the Post Office,” I said casually, as I unpacked my shopping on to the kitchen table. “Oh?” my daughter Debra answered, without looking up from her book. “Yes,” I co

An extramarital affair, a crushing professional dismissal, a shoplifting compulsion. Cyan Turan explores the psychology of secret-keeping, plus 12 women reveal what they’ll never share out loud

I WAS a nightmare in the early days of my marriage, I admit it. I’d met Johnny on a skiing holiday in Courchevel, where we’d both gone with groups of chums. Johnny was the most daring of us and the be

Sexual fluidity didn’t seem like an option when Megan Wallace came out as a teenager – but that all changed years later when a new guy started at work…

Life has a bad habit of mirroring art. Sometimes, this can be in a deeply sad way. A while after I wrote about the assumption of guilt in a traumatised young woman with poor social skills, I watched a