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Did my parents make me gay?
By SAMUEL LEIGHTON-DORE When I was four years old my parents brought home my first ever pet, a chubby grey rabbit, to soften the blow of my anxiously anticipated first year of Primary School. When asked what name I’d chosen for my new furry friend, I innocently – but surely – replied with [read more]
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“This is how my mother-in-law messed with my mind”
By VARIA KARIPOFF Last Christmas my mother-in-law gifted me a steam mop. It’s one of those shopping channel wonders that melts off crayons and bolognaise sauce in one sterile swoop. It comes with enough packaging to burn for about four hours, which will provide brief comfort next winter when my gas is finally [read more]
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My husband bought me a vibrator for my birthday.
by JO ABI Yes, you read that correctly. My loving husband of almost ten years decided it was a good idea to purchase a vibrator as a gift for the birthday of the mother of his three children. After all my hints about anti-aging facials and jewellery he decided what I need was a [read more]
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“This is what I did with my ex-wife’s wedding dress.”
By KEVIN COTTER One year ago, my book, 101 Uses For My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress, was published. It is a combination of photographs of odd uses for a wedding dress and my story of getting through a really challenging time in my life. I got the idea to start a blog when I inherited my ex-wife’s [read more]
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Em Rusciano: “My marriage is over. I am broken.”
By EM RUSCIANO I wanted to keep this private, I wanted to protect my children and my heart but I am a public person of sorts and I wanted to be in control of how people found out what has happened recently in my life. You see, my marriage is over. [read more]
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30 top reasons not to have sex with someone.
By ASHE DAVENPORT Firstly, to clarify, if someone is over 30 and still has to wear a nametag at work, that’s a dealbreaker® (Tina Fey, 30 Rock season four), which means you wouldn’t be in a relationship with them. However, you might still have sex with them if the mood strikes. That’s where [read more]
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You can only have this many friends. Science says so.
By MELISSA WELLHAM How many friends do you have? Not Facebook friends, real friends. People whose birthdays you can remember without the aid of social media, people who you’d have sent Christmas cards to back when you actually sent Christmas cards, people who you honestly care about. How many do you have? [read more]
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‘The only age I want to get married.’
By NATALIA JASTRZAB Marriage is stressing me out. And yes, I do realise how ridiculous that statement sounds, having been written by an unmarried, unengaged 20-something. But I am prematurely worried about what I’ve deemed “the marriage gap”. It’s that teeny-tiny period of time, determined by Society And All That, in which women are [read more]
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18 arguments against gay marriage and why they’re STILL bollocks.
This morning, members of Britain’s House of Commons voted overwhelmingly in favour for a bill that would allow for legal recognition of gay marriage in the UK and Wales. Members of Britain’s lower house voted 400 to 175 in favour of the bill. The next step is the House of [read more]
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KATE: The marriage gap…when your standards are dramatically different.
By KATE HUNTER Nothing illuminates personality differences like a flooded rumpus room. It happened to us last weekend when most Brisbane families faced some kind of storm damage. All over the city, couples were rifling through drawers, looking for torches and shouting, ‘You KNEW those batteries were NOT to be used [read more]
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“That’s when she said it. She told me she wanted to die.”
by ANONYMOUS The author of this piece is known to Mamamia but has chose to remain anonymous. I responded to this card from my mum with: “For fuck’s sake mum. How do you think that makes me feel? If it’s what you want, don’t hold back on account of me”. Probably not [read more]
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This is why women become nervous about sex.
by ANONYMOUS* Imagine if you will this scenario. It’s a Monday morning. You wake up feeling frisky. You wrap your arms around your loved one and whisper seductively in their ear. You get shut down. It’s a Wednesday night, you come home from work after a big day, but you are rearing for [read more]
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The sex bucket list. PLUS our 10 most popular posts about relationships.
1. The sex bucket list. How many of these can you tick off? This one needs no explanation. How many of these can you tick off your sex bucket list? What would you add? (Don’t forget to check out the comments, they went wild with this one!) Read the post [read more]
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Teenage lesbian comes out to her parents – with a cake.
When you’re a teenager, there are countless things that are hard to tell your parents. Like, “Sorry mum, your car no longer has a rear view mirror” or “Here is my report.” But imagine having to tell your parents you were gay. Imagine having to come out. Unfortunately, not every story of coming out [read more]
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“Why I regret dating older men.”
By TINA RODIA While adults should be free to be in a relationship with whomever they choose, including younger or older partners, I dare to argue that teenage girls should never date older men. However, the hardest people to convince would be the girls themselves. I was one of those girls. But I [read more]
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My story: I packed up my life to spend time with him while I can.
By SARAH GRANT For the best part of the last decade, I have spent Australia Day in the same way that many 20 and 30 somethings do – having a barbie with friends at the beach or park, drinking too much, chasing the next party. It’s always been a fun day, albeit more of [read more]
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Reader’s story: “His parents died suddenly. But the wedding went ahead.”
by VANESSA GIGLIOTTI It’s hard to believe that over a year have passed since I received the phone call that would forever change my best friend Nancy’s life forever. As she frantically choked my name down the phone and tried to swallow the horrific news that was about to envelop her chest, seven small [read more]
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He put the ring in the toilet. AND SHE SAID YES.
Most proposal stories involve things like rose petals, champagne, a fancy dinner, a romantic location and a man on bended knee. Sometimes there’s a bit of variety. Sometimes, proposals involve picnics and giant love hearts drawn on beaches and flash mobs and Youtube videos. (Perhaps not all at once, although [read more]
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You think your problems will be over when you find “The One.” Wrong.
By JO ABI Yesterday on Mamamia, a post called “This is why you’re not married” went gangbusters as Jamila Rizvi wrote about how many single women aspire to marriage and that’s OK. Of course it is. But there’s something Jamila – and all the other single ladies – need to know. Marriage is hard [read more]
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JAMILA: This is why you’re not married.
By JAMILA RIZVI Yep, you clicked on that headline. We knew that you would… Because this headline and the controversial article it accompanied (which you can read in full here) was one of last year’s most clicked on articles from US site, The Huffington Post. That’s right, an article, which tells women [read more]
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Love stories. The post that will make your day instantly better.
By NATALIA JASTRZAB We think you might need this post today. If you’re finding the return to the working week a little tough, if you’re having a sad or difficult time at the moment – this post is going to make it all better. And even if you’re not struggling, even if you think you’re [read more]
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KATE: Meeting new people. Awesome or awful?
By KATE HUNTER Remember Gilligan’s Island? Such a great show, such a simple concept: What happens when a millionaire, his wife, a professor, a farm girl and a movie star are marooned on a desert island with a sailor and his ‘little buddy’? Genius. I watched episode after episode as a ten year old, stretched [read more]
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“Are my dating principles bigoted?”
By SHANKARI CHANDRAN Last night Husband and I went to see The Hobbit. Actually, I went to see The Hobbit and Husband took the opportunity to have so many micro-sleeps, it was more like a 2 hour nap in Middle-earth for him. During the film I had a moral and conversational conflict (with myself) [read more]
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WATCH: She got married on her 100th birthday.
By REBECCA SPARROW Dana Jackson is like millions of other brides-to-be. She’s having a hen’s party. She’s got a big white dress and a maaaaaaassive veil. And her wedding bling will – avert your eyes! avert your eyes! – blind you. Dana is also 99-years-old. And she’s marrying her boyfriend Bill on her 100th [read more]
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The ultimate ‘being single sucks’ moment.
by LUCY CHEEK Don’t get me wrong: I like being single most of the time. But today, I’ve got the flu. Proper, body-aching, chills-multiplying, chesty-cough woman flu. And I’m holed up in bed with a Mt Kosciuszko-sized mountain of tissues, Revenge season 1 (things aren’t all bad), and, you know what? [read more]
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Your dad was a hipster before it was cool.
This may be hard to believe. But once upon a time, before the days of regaling us with cheesy jokes and wearing joggers with jeans, our dads were actually cool. So cool, in fact, that they were hipsters – the original hipsters. They were the Neanderthal Man of the hipster world. Luxuriant facial hair, thick-rimmed [read more]
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The Public Display of Affection. Gross or adorable?
by KATE LEAVER You might have seen Shane “Fast Bowler” Warne chuck a hissy fit on the pitch of his favourite sports concert, Twenty20 Cricket, this week. He swore, he shoved, he fumed. The man’s a legend – and a lucky man, because his fiance jumped (gracefully) to his defence. Elizabeth “Total Babe” Hurley tweeted [read more]
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Comedian Lehmo’s romantic proposal: “What are you DOING?”
By LEHMO When proposing to my girlfriend, Kelly over the Christmas/New Year break I expected the Hollywood movie scene bit: she would gasp, she would cry, then smile then say ‘yes’. Yeah… Turns out I should have had a plan B ready to roll. I wanted to nail the proposal because I’ve [read more]
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Group Therapy: ‘How do I end my obsession with getting married?
by ANONYMOUS Dear God, It’s happening. I am nearly 28, and not married. No, I am not a single, independent, childless woman. I am in a relationship with a man I love immensely, who doesn’t want to marry me. We have all the characteristics of a family enjoying married life. We [read more]
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I love you. Three words I never quite managed to tell my mum.
by SAMALA GOILE As I look back over my life I am filled with wonderful memories of my mother. She was the one who taught me to cook, who taught me to stand up for myself, to be amazing and be brave and to take on the world but only if [read more]