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How to deal with jealousy
DEIDRE SAYS: Jealousy is a very powerful and potentially destructive emotion that can torment you and hurt your loved ones.It can affect anyone - man
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How to deal with a narcissist
DEIDRE SAYS: With up to five per cent of the population believed to have narcissistic personality disorder, it’s very likely that you’ll run into
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How to deal with a break-up
DEIDRE SAYS:Brits have an average of 7.5 relationships during their lifetime, so break-ups are common. And many struggle how to get through the
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How to deal with gaslighting?
DEIDRE SAYS:If your partner puts you down and makes you constantly second-guess yourself, they may be gaslighting you.Gaslighting is common in r
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Is watching porn cheating?
DEIDRE SAYS:Watching porn is now a mainstream activity, with over 50% of men and 16% of women admitting to watching it regularly.Some couples wa
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Is it normal to not want sex?
DEIDRE SAYS: A third of British women aren’t interested in sex - and while it’s normal for our libido to lull, many don’t understand why. Ever
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My wife's retirement dream has left me feeling lost, I miss my home
I’M thinking of returning to my home town because living out my other half’s retirement dream by the coast has made me feel disconnected – but m
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My toxic ex-wife vanished as soon as we divorced and now I can't see my children
SINCE we divorced, my now ex-wife has vanished and won’t let me visit our children.I’m 46 and she is 43.We have three beautiful boys together but
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My creepy neighbour keeps finding a way to perv on my teenage girls
DEAR DEIDRE: OUR new neighbour is a peeping Tom.He keeps finding ways to spy on me and my teenage girls despite my efforts to fit a garden fence and g
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My partner says he's not a cheater but I've seen dirty messages he sends ex
DEAR DEIDRE: MY partner says romance and passion don’t come naturally to him – but I’ve found endless messages where he’s proclaimed his love
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Jess can't face telling Dan she just isn't interested in him
DEIDRE SAYS:IT’S always confusing when someone you like ghosts you – especially a friend.Unfortunately your friends took the easy way out.On
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I gave my girlfriend her dream threesome but she's now refusing mine
DEAR DEIDRE: I GAVE my girlfriend her dream threesome and now she is refusing mine. I feel cheated.We always got a kick sharing our fantasies.She want
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Men I meet only want me for one thing - my money
DEAR DEIDRE: THE men I meet only want me for one thing – money.I am an attractive 50-year-old woman.I’m independent and keep myself in good shape.
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Children blackmail me into taking back my cheating husband
DEAR DEIDRE: MY husband has cheated on me throughout our marriage but each time I try to kick him out my children blackmail me into taking him back.I
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I thought date with guy went well but I have not heard from him since
DEAR DEIDRE: TWO years ago I stood a guy up as I really liked him and was too nervous to go through with the date.I have never forgotten him.I always
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Fiancée ended engagement as we could not agree over our parenting styles
DEAR DEIDRE: MY FIANCÉE broke off our engagement because of constant friction around our parenting styles.The straw that broke the camel’s back cam
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I am struggling to cope since breaking free from my abusive boyfriend
DEAR DEIDRE: I HAVE finally broken free of my abusive ex but I’m struggling to cope.I haven’t slept or eaten for five days and my children have no
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I fear our regular threesomes drove my girlfriend into arms of our lover
DEAR DEIDRE: WHEN I suggested that we try a threesome, my girlfriend was terribly suspicious.She worried that she wasn’t enough for me sexually and
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Husband says if I can't teach daughter to sleep through the night he'll walk out
DEAR DEIDRE: IF I can’t teach our daughter to sleep through the night my husband says he will move in with his brother.I’m 38 and my husband is 43
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My 18-year-old stepdaughter is flirting with me, what should I do?
DEAR DEIDRE: WHEN her mum is at work, my 18-year-old stepdaughter keeps flirting with me.I’m 45 and have been with her mum for three years. We recen
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Sending my mum to a home is for the best but I always promised her I wouldn't
DEAR DEIDRE: The memory of my mum asking to live with me, or my younger brother, rather than live in a home to see out her final days is clearer than
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I can't shake images of my fiancée having sex with her ex
DEAR DEIDRE: I CAN’T get the images of my fiancée having sex with her ex out of my head.I might be engaged to her but he is always hovering in the
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I'm still a virgin at 36 but the thought of changing that terrifies me
DEAR DEIDRE: I’M probably the oldest virgin who has ever written to you, but at 36 I’ve now got the chance to change all that.And the thought of i
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Boyfriend's erectile dysfunction is messing with my head
DEAR DEIDRE: MY boyfriend says he’s tired or not in the mood when I ask him why he keeps losing his erection.It’s been happening a lot over the pa
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Girlfriend knows my HIV secret but I fear she will walk away
DEAR DEIDRE: I AM having doubts about my relationship because I am irrationally convinced my lover is going to ghost me.I am a 32-year-old man and my