Journal

As the year progresses and summer is looming, I find myself thinking about how my life has changed over the last few year. Six years ago, the longest relationship I...

SINGLE MOTHERHOOD IS EASIER I am sitting with my friend Annabel having dinner together, our eldest sons, hers aged 13, mine15, are at the table. They are talking away...

  By Lucy Cavendish   As January progresses and the full enormity of the post-Christmas blues hit, I find myself thinking about how my life has changed over...

People leave but they don’t say goodbye. Sometimes people say goodbye but they don’t leave. When it comes to leaving relationships, the above statements can often ring...

How to describe imposter syndrome? Let’s take two friends of mine. I have one privately-educated, blue stocking slim blonde, well-spoken friend who is a successful...

This December, I am getting married. I am 50 years old. I have four children aged between nine and 20. The man I am marrying is 57 and has two children of his own aged...

There have been two times in my life when I’ve been a single mother; once when I was 31 with one child and then again, many years later, having had three more children....

By Lucy Cavendish This time a year ago, I had no idea what was about to happen in my life. I was a single parent with four kids and dating a man I’d met three years...

https://happiful.com/meet-the-agony-aunts-bel-mooney/ BEL MOONEY Who do you work for? My advice column appears every Saturday in the Daily Mail, over two pages, with a...

  It is a warm and sunny day and I find myself sitting on a beanbag in a light and airy room in a small Oxfordshire village. I have come here to take part in the...