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Salary Story: I’m On £10,000 More Than My Parents Ever Made & I’m So...

“It’s Where I Spend All My Time”: The Joy Of The Women’s Toilets In The Club...

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Confrontation Is Key To Long-Lasting Friendships — I’d Know

Last year, a key confrontational moment happened in one of my most treasured friendships: Sat across from one of my best friends, drink in hand, we’d bee

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Salary Story: I Feared That If I Negotiated, I’d Lose The Job Offer

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All The Lifestyle & Wellbeing Products We Tried & Loved In May

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I’m Happy Being Single, But…

How long have you, or your friends, been single? For at least one person in your circle, the answer is likely to be well over a year — if not years. (In

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“I Don’t Miss It”: Celibacy Is Bringing Some Women Peace

Celibacy has had a rebrand. Previously, celibacy was often intertwined with religious ideas of purity and chastity, but for women today the concept is much

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Salary Story: I’ve Never Negotiated And It’s My Biggest Regret

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In Your Running Era? Ignore The Haters

Trainers laced, Strava on, earphones in, body stretched: We’re going for a run. So many of us are adopting a version of this ritual. Record numbers of pe

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Salary Story: I Wish I Knew Negotiating Annual Leave Was Possible

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All The Lifestyle & Wellbeing Products We Tried & Loved In April

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“Walking Dissolves Barriers”: The Young People Finding Friendship...

It’s been an emotional few weeks for Jeb Jagne. A 24-year-old Londoner, he never saw himself as a hiker or leader. Both changed. While out one evening, h

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All The Lifestyle & Wellbeing Products We Tried & Loved In March

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10 Women Share What Finally Broke Their Long-Term Relationship

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10 Women On Their Most Wholesome Interaction With A Stranger

I once got off the tube in a hurry as I was running late. I had music in my ears and could just make out the faint noise of someone shouting behind me. I t

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I’m A Big Fan Of Situationships – You Could Be, Too

Situationships get a bad rap. I think that’s unfair. Tinder defines them as “when you’re not quite dating someone, but you’re not just sleeping wit

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“We Met Before We Were Born” & Other Slow Burn Love S...

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Adult Sleepovers Are Giving Us What Big Nights Out Can’t

Heidi Currid, from Manchester, has a sleepover with her friends at least once a month. And no, she’s not 13, she’s 30. “We meet up at one of our hous

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“I Felt Pressured To Suck It Up”: When Mental Health Costs You Yo...

“I had chronic anxiety and depression in my early 20s that made it very difficult to work. I got headaches and sickness. There were some days where I phy

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Young Women Are Quietly Living With Debt And Are Looking For Answers

“I’m not a stupid person,” says Hannah (who doesn’t want to share her surname), 25, from Buckinghamshire, UK, who is in the process of clearing £6

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Salary Story: I Told My Manager I Wanted To Work In A Different D...

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What’s The Best Way To Relieve Period Cramps?

The pinching, aching, piercing abdominal pangs that can come with a period can make a person want to assume the foetal position and sleep until it’s

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I Avoided Training For A 10k — Then I Embraced Slow Running

I’ve never been “a runner”, whatever that is (presumably, a person who can run, which surely a lot of people are?). When it came to sports day at sch

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Salary Story: I Found Out My Male Colleague Earns 40% More Than Me

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The Answer To Loneliness? For These Women, It’s Book Clubs

Every month, it seems like more of my friends are joining book clubs — I’ve just joined one too — and they’re going for the social element of the m

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Why The “F*ck It” Mentality Is Harming Friendships

Talking about money benefits all of us — and we need to do it more. Join the conversation with Worth More, our 2024 guide to better finances, from naviga

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Salary Story: I Love My Job, But It Only Pays Me £27k

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The Holiday Is Over… And So Is Your Friendship

Some friendships work best in certain contexts: the friend you party with, the friend you walk your dog with, the friend you go to dinner with. It can feel

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PCOS And Diabetes Are Connected – But Women Aren’t Being Told At ...

Trigger warning: This article contains themes of bulimia and binge-eating. As someone who was diagnosed with “inconclusive PCOS (polycystic ovarian synd

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