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MAY 2020

'My ex left me for another woman while I was pregnant. He continued to sext me for months.'
'A radio personality, a date, a colleague: My painfully unexceptional history of sexual assault.'
"You will like yourself so much more." 4 life lessons you learn after turning 40.
Isabelle Silbery: 'I've found love again. And it's teaching me why my marriage didn't work.'
'I thought Alopecia had won. Then, after 15 years, I finally shaved my head.'
'My married lover left his wife for me. Then I got pregnant and he left me too.'
'When I got married, I took my husband's name. Two years later, I'm changing it.'
"Mum was 18 when her newborn baby was taken away from her. Then I found him accidentally."
'A uni professor gave me the worst career advice of my life: "Your hair is unprofessional."'
17 women share their last normal photo before the world changed.
'At 17, I woke up to a boy on top of me. For 10 years, I didn't recognise it for what it was.'
'Last night, I watched my family history unfold on TV. The story was tragic.'
Constance Hall: 'I’m getting older. There are more lines on my face. But I wouldn’t change a f**king thing.'
'For 10 years, my husband was sleeping with different women. I wish I'd trusted my gut.'
"The week Australia went into lockdown, my husband cut off finances to my children and I."
'My friend left an abusive relationship. Three years later, I'm still terrified of her ex.'
'I had a threesome with my best friend and her fiance. Then she and I began an affair.'
At 14, we found the birth certificate of a brother we didn't know we had. Last year, we met him.
Days after Alison Wilson's husband died, she learned she wasn't his only wife.
'I feel like I’ve always been this tired.' The unspoken frustration of being a single mum.
'My marriage was in trouble. Then I started finding bottles full of urine around our house.'
In 1994, Julie Kelley told her ex-boyfriend she was pregnant. Then she snatched a baby.
"I feel forgotten about." 3 women on what it's really like trying to access the JobKeeper payment.
"I pray you have found a way to heal the wounds I created." A letter to my estranged daughter.
"I feel guilty and ashamed." It took me nearly three decades to realise I had an eating disorder.
'People don't want to know that I'm not OK.' The reality of being single and isolating alone.
"I broke off my engagement": 9 women share how isolation has changed their relationships.
'In one of our final conversations, my wife told me: "I wish we all lived like we had cancer".'