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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]
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Two big condom questions. And zero conclusions.
By NATALIA JASTRZAB Today at Mamamia, we’re busting out the big questions. About condoms. Mainly because I’ve found myself in the midst of a couple of debates on the very subject in recent weeks. Who knew people were so passionate about such a small thing? So we’re shifting them over to you in the [read more]
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This is a love story. This is a tragedy.
This was the 4th most read post on Mamamia in 2012 and was shared by more than 5000 of you on your Facebook pages…. A reminder, that sometimes the simplest messages are the most powerful. If you ever wondered why same sex marriage even matters, what all the fuss is about, watch this. If you [read more]
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It’s time to book in for a personality upgrade.
By JULIA ALEXANDER Well we don’t just call a spade a spade anymore, do we? We call it a motherf*cking shovel. Whether it is the veil of anonymity on the internet or simply catching someone at the wrong time, it seems like the claws are out for anyone and everyone these [read more]
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A day in the life of a prostitute.
BY GRACE BELLAVUE One of the greatest paradoxes of my work is that we provide sex, companionship and a respite from the loneliness of the barrage of daily assaults. For most people, they are the constrictions and mundane of their relationships, for others it’s the fantasy, the erotica and the forbidden that [read more]
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Heartbreaking: “I’m a grown man, and I don’t know what to do.”
This video shows human pain at its most raw. One comedian takes to the stage to perform his latest stand up routine, as part of a festival themed “they were the best of times, they were the worst of times”. Instead, he tells no jokes, he cracks no gags, he makes no funnies. He appears [read more]
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Remembering: the house you grew up in.
As we continue our countdown of the most popular posts on Mamamia this year – this little one was one of our absolute favourites in the office. Nat is our site co-ordinator, who first started work as an intern many years ago and has now become one ripper of a writer. Here she talks about [read more]
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Most popular posts of 2012: #19 Keith Urban’s order of love.
Welcome to Mamamia’s Top 20. Over the Christmas/New Year period, we’re counting down the most clicked-on, the most commented-on and the most shared posts from throughout 2012 – the posts that you, our lovely readers, enjoyed the most this year. Number 19: Keith Urban has an order for his love: it’s Nicole and then his kids. This [read more]
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She’s trapped in an abusive relationship. Help.
by ANONYMOUS My older sister is in an abusive relationship and she refuses to leave. As a writer, I have tried several times to sit down and get this out of my system, but it’s an extremely painful and frustrating topic to talk about. I didn’t expect it would be a tweet from Brian McFadden [read more]
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Coming out as a ‘gayby’. This story is beautiful.
By MAYA NEWELL My favorite thing as a child was to pick up the home telephone to find a telemarketer on the other end. “Hello,” I’d chirp eagerly, to which they would ask, “Hello darling, can I speak to your mother?” With a smug look on my face, I’d reply, “Which one?” Since I [read more]
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There is such a lesson for parents in this letter….
by BELLA WESTAWAY Dear Mum, Last year was the best year of my life. As you know, it was the year I turned eighteen. The year I fell in love. The year I rebelled. The year I smoked a cigarette and went to a nightclub and slept on the beach (well, umm, you know [read more]
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New dating trend: hooking up in airports
So you’re stuck at the airport. Your plane has been delayed. Your phone battery is almost dead and power points are scarce. You wouldn’t mind a drink, but you don’t want to sit at the airport bar alone in case people think you are a loser with a drinking problem (no judgement). If [read more]
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Group Therapy: We’re newlyweds and he doesn’t want to have sex…
by ANONYMOUS The last time I had sex with my husband was the middle of the night a couple of nights ago; he’d woken up with a hankerin’ for some lovin’, and I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, happily surprised by this wake up call. It lasted a total of about four minutes, and [read more]
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All the single ladies: Rob Mills wants you to know something
by ROB MILLS Over the last few weeks and months, I keep hearing, reading and being told that there is a man drought here in Australia. And you know what? Notsomuch. I hate to break it to you ladies but it’s just not true. What is actually going on here is a total breakdown [read more]
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Dear Brian McFadden: read this and then tell me I’m “pathetic”.
Dear Brian McFadden, Your tweet caught my attention. It caught my attention because I have been “hit” and chose to stay with the perpetrator, or, my husband, until a couple of years ago. I can’t say I haven’t heard what you said before. People say it all the time. I say it to myself all [read more]
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8 questions most men can’t answer about their partners
By KATE HUNTER Alright, we have a challenge for you. If there’s a man in your life, ask him the following questions: 1. “What’s my bra size?” 2. “What’s my dress size?” 3. “What’s my favourite perfume?” 4. “What’s my favourite clothes shop?” 5. “Where did I go to school?” 6. “Can you [read more]
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‘I’m marrying my first cousin. Because we fell in love.’
By ANONYMOUS No one writes the book on who you should fall in love with. You can’t help the way you feel. I am engaged to be married to my cousin, my first cousin. Australia allows this. You may be thinking it’s wrong, it’s disgusting and it’s against nature. I can assure you that [read more]
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The toughest year of marriage (it’s not what you’d expect).
By BEC SPARROW My first year of marriage was hardly smooth sailing. Really it was more like the Titanic at some points. Despite the fact we’d lived together first, I still had to get used to my new husband Brad’s completely mental system for doing the laundry (he insists on washing new clothes separately first. [read more]
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The one thing that makes marriages last longer.
by REBECCA SPARROW If you want to make your head explode, Google ‘how to stay married’ just for kicks. Just as a heads up, the conflicting advice will leave you rocking in the foetal position under the dining room table. That fickle minx the interwebz will try and tell you the secret to a long-lasting [read more]
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“I have to stop lying so much and trust people.”
by BRENDAN MACLEAN Boy howdy, doesn’t consciously having your teeth plucked out of your head give you a moment to reflect on things? With a fist half way down my throat and a pipe slurping up the residual blood and drool I was struck by a single thought, a thought [read more]
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Michael Clarke: let’s judge his performance based on who he’s sleeping with.
by LUCY CHESTERTON Wow. Did you SEE Michael Clarke’s record-breaking batting run on the cricket pitch this week? The fourth double century he scored for 2012, the one that ushered him into the history books? It was a huge feat, something he certainly couldn’t have managed if he was still dating Lara Bingle. Wait, WHAT? [read more]
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“The day I came out to my Dad. The ex-priest.”
by GAVIN FERNANDO Coming out is an emotional ordeal. Coming out to your family is the most nerve-wrecking, unsettling of the lot. Coming out when your father is a Sri Lankan Catholic ex-priest would make a great motion picture. To this day, ‘gay’ is incomprehensible in Sri Lanka. Gay men [read more]
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The ‘dating’ website where men buy women. Practical or prostitution?
By LUCY ORMONDE When Zara Phillips was in Australia earlier this week, she told journalists the story of how she met her husband. It was 2003 and she was at Sydney’s Manly Wharf Bar with her cousin (Prince Harry, no biggie). Mike Tindall was sitting at the bar and, well, it “went from there”. It’s [read more]
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Not all men cheat. And these are the reasons why.
By LUCY ORMONDE Everyone cheats. Someone said this to me a few weeks ago and I have to admit the statement left me feeling frankly, a little bit sick. At 25, it’s always been my belief that it’s only the jerks who cheat. So have I been wrong this whole time as some people would [read more]
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Sex worker & mother: ‘Yes, I AM empowered by my job.’
by EVA SLESS I have a problem. The problem is I am angry. Really really angry and I’m trying to write. I don’t like writing when I’m angry because I find a lot of points get missed and lost and I get a bit shouty and sweary which, in turn, makes me look [read more]
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Fiona Apple: A heartbreaking letter to her dying dog.
Earlier this week, singer/songwriter Fiona Apple postponed her South American tour to be with her dying dog, Janet. She wrote a hand-written letter to her friends explaining her decision. Anyone who has ever owned a pet will identify with Fiona’s beautiful words. Fiona writes: It’s 6pm on Friday,and I’m writing to [read more]
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Male Chastity Belts… Oh dear me.
By NATALIA JASTRZAB It was a dark and stormy night in the Jastrzab household. Lightning slashed its way through the sky as I stared at my computer. Paralysed with fear, I picked up my phone and dialed my best friend. “I need you to promise me something,” was my ominous opening line. “What is it?!” [read more]
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SHARE: All you need is love.
By JAMILA RIZVI My mum always likes to tell me that there is no substitute for a happy childhood. And she’s right. Like me, the little girl in this video had a truly happy childhood. She was played with. She was read to. She was cared for. She was and still is, loved. But there’s [read more]
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‘I made up the entire relationship in my head, including our wedding’
By ANONYMOUS Craig* was everything that I wanted in a lover. To the romantic in me, he was the Lancelot to my Guinevere. The Tristan to my Isolde. The Mr Darcy to my Elizabeth Bennet. He was intelligent, funny, older, handsome, with these amazing deep brown eyes, a knee-jerking smile that never failed to make [read more]