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Holding stillborn children: more traumatic?
A University of Queensland researcher is concerned parents who hold their stillborn children, or bathe them, experience higher rates of depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Dr Kelly Cunningham reviewed studies that had already been conducted, some of which appeared to show parents who held their stillborn children experienced higher levels of [read more]
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“All the single ladies: you’re too picky.”
by SARAH HARRIS A couple of weeks back, the Catholic Church sparked an unholy war with single women across the country by declaring the real reason why so many of us are unmarried and alone is because we’re ‘too picky’. Nevermind Australia’s man drought (the ratio of single women to single men, says demographer Bernard [read more]
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Same-sex marriage: the answer is logic, reason and love
Like many people, I was appalled by what Joe Hockey said on Monday night on ABC’s Q&A about same-sex marriage and parenting, so I wrote to him to express my concern. What struck me most about the events of the last five minutes of the show was how disappointed in himself Joe looked when his [read more]
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Dealing with the death of a pet…
I’ve got those dreadful puffy eyes from crying too much. I’m wearing my sunglasses out in public way more than normal and have avoided seeing or speaking to anyone the past couple of days in case they talk to me and I start crying again. I can’t think straight, I’m demotivated and sad and I’m [read more]
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The sex bucket list. How many of these can you tick off?
When the Conversation’s Amanda de Cadenet asked A-list celebrities about their preferences when it comes to positions in the boudoir, responses were varied. It was doggy style for Zoe Saldana, missionary for Jane Fonda (who said “fake knee” limited mobility) and Gwyneth Paltrow? She said she was “down with all of them”. So does that [read more]
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This is a love story. This is a tragedy.
If you ever wondered why same sex marriage even matters, what all the fuss is about, watch this. If you care about gay and lesbian people, watch this. If you want to see something that truly moves you, watch this.
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The best ice breaker EVER.
Mamamia Friends, I am passing a gift on to you all. I have no need for it anymore – I got hitched, had a kid, and never go anywhere interesting these days. But I don’t want this gift to go to waste. I’m going to give you an ice breaker – or, let’s call a [read more]
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The best part about cyber-stalking your exes.
BY BERN MORLEY Circa 1993, I thought I fell in love. In hindsight I actually just had a big old dose of infatuation, but these things are hard to determine at the time. He was like an addiction to me. He consumed my thoughts. Only problem was, he didn’t know I existed. [read more]
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5 things you SHOULDN’T put on a dating profile
“I love vegetarian and vegan food. And steak.” Her dating profile was hardly a work of art. I mean, it wasn’t going to be stored in the Louvre and protected with motion-sensitive lasers. It was rudimentary and bizarrely thought out, like Sex and the City 2 or the platypus. This [read more]
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Being married… and attracted to other men
There’s a man in my life who I’ve known for a while. We bump into each other every now and then and the attraction from years before is still there. But I’m married to someone else. I’m happily married and have been for almost nine years. I love my husband and have no intention of [read more]
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‘I want Government in my lady garden’.
You might have heard a little bit about the terrifying ways the United States is trying to control women’s bodies. Well, here’s the hilarious fight-back as well-known actresses like Kate Beckinsale tell the world that, yes, they’d love the Government in their ‘lady cave’. Republicans, Get In My Vagina! from Kate Beckinsale
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Why Bert & Patti Newton need compassion not condemnation.
BY MIA FREEDMAN Take a close look at Bert and Patti Newton. What do you see? Your answer will depend on whether you’ve ever loved someone with a mental illness. If you haven’t, you might see bad parents. Parents doing the wrong thing by their son. Parents too caught up in their own lives. Parents [read more]
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“My most important family treasure…”
My grandmother (aged 85 and in good health) is obsessed with her own death. This is disconcerting for family because obviously we are worried about it too and we don’t want to be reminded regularly by her that it “is about to happen, any day now”. For example, one of her favourite conversations is asking [read more]
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The best rejection letter you’ll ever read.
Hillary Clinton is so gosh darned cool these days she can even reject celebrities and make it funny. When Jason Segel (Hollywood funnyman who starred in The Muppets) asked her on the popular comedy show How I Met Your Mother in which he stars she said no. But she wrote him a letter. Here’s what [read more]
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Deep down, everyone wants a partner. Discuss.
According to my Greek grandmother there are two types of people in this world: Those who are in relationships and those who wish they were. (Actually, there are lots of ‘two types’ of people in her world: Greeks and non-Greeks, people with and without Foxtel, people she sends Christmas cards to and [read more]
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“When my husband gets home late…”
I set off this morning with a list of jobs. We have guests arriving next week and I’m doing a few last minute things, you know, like having the spare room painted! I rang G this morning to tell him I hadn’t been able to get to the mall as there’d been a fire. As [read more]
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SEALED SECTION: How do I introduce THIS into the mix?
Ever used a vibrator? Alone? With a partner? Such a minefield, so many questions. So let’s just start with a simple one… Today’s Question: My boyfriend and I have a great sex life, but recently I’ve found myself getting a little curious about introducing a vibrator into the mix. At first he was extremely doubtful [read more]
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Bridal and baby showers – a necessary evil?
Around the time I graduated high school, a cousin of mine became a teen mother. I remember my grandmother repeatedly telling me, “She gave her mother a beautiful baby.” My grandma provided no validation for my ambitious pursuit of higher education and was unimpressed that I was attending a prestigious college. In her mind, all [read more]
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Is this the worst act of revenge ever?
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Or, in this case, in the dentist’s chair while your ex-boyfriend is under anesthetic and completely unable to object when you pull out all of his teeth. A Polish woman, also a dentist, is facing jail after the man she used [read more]
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Do you celebrate like William and Kate?
Prince William and Catherine Middleton celebrate their one year wedding anniversary today. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been 12 months since I had to navigate the drive from my place to my sister’s house without missing any of the televised ceremony. I am sure it’s even harder for Catherine to believe that [read more]
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When the cheater is cheated on.
Sprinting; I hadn’t sprinted since Little Athletics. Even then I wasn’t very good. Yet there I was, a 24-year-old with two grocery bags full of belongings, tripping over my skinny jeans like a drunken giraffe trying to escape a starved lion. There I was – sprinting away from my man. After being together for two [read more]
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Take one hot fireman and one cute kitten …
Someone did some research that revealed women are turned on by heroic firemen and fluffy little kittens. Therefore, it must follow that if you put both in an ad for tequila we’ll all be margharitaing like mad. What do you think? Would this man drive you to drink?
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SEALED SECTION: “This is why I am a submissive”
I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey – the erotic story of the submissive/dominant relationship that is currently on the bookshelves and kindles of hundreds of thousands of women. But I do know about submissive sex. I am a ”strong” woman! I am a mother, employed and putting myself through university. [read more]
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When love ends. And is born again
I am standing in the kitchen with my work bag still slung over one shoulder staring at the envelope sitting on the bench. On the front, in my husband’s handwriting is my name. Not the nickname he calls me, but my full name. In capitals. I know it must be serious. Slowly, [read more]
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Have you been sexually harassed at work? I have.
BY MIA FREEDMAN The first time I was sexually harassed at work, I didn’t know what it was. Same with the second and third and fourth times. It happened when I was working as a waitress in a restaurant after I’d left school. The owner was a loud, charismatic European guy in [read more]
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“Keith Urban: The order of my love is my wife and then my daughters”
“Love grows downwards” a friend once said to me. “You will always love your children more than they love you” And it’s true. I do love my child more than he could possibly love me. In fact I love him more than anyone I have ever loved before and in a completely different way. It’s [read more]
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Meet Pricasso. He doodles with his, um, doodle.
Tim Patch is an Australian artist who decided paint brushes were SO Renaissance. So instead of loitering around Bunnings aisles looking for the right hardware, he decided to just start painting with his penis instead. With his penis. He discovered his ‘gift’ during a trip to a public urinal, experimenting with the dexterity of his [read more]
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What are your secret single behaviours?
My husband left for a few days in Sydney for work today and my second thought (after gee I’ll miss you) was ‘awesome, I can ped-egg my feet without judgement!’ I know, my life is sad, but the reality is, since being in a relationship and becoming a mum, me time [read more]
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“Bad sex is good for my relationship”
My husband and I have sex almost every day which after three children, eight years of marriage and two demanding schedules is quite an achievement. But it isn’t very good. And we don’t care one bit. It isn’t difficult for couples to have sex every day. The problem is that couples expect [read more]
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Why do some people think this isn’t rape?
I currently live in a share house in London with 5 other men (boys?) in their mid-20s. Every evening they can be found either: a. Watching soccer. b. Playing Xbox. c. Talking about soccer. d. Eating take away. e. A combination of b,c and d. This house is equal parts crazy and marvelous – but [read more]