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Cohabitation

July 2024

  • Facing financial problems when a controlling partner refuses to let a house be sold.

    Consumer champions
    My abusive ex-partner won’t let me sell my home or buy him out

    We have been separated for five years, and it feels like his way of continuing to exert control

March 2024

  • Dearbhail McDonald

    After the no-no vote, Irish women are stuck with a sexist constitution. Let’s use it

    Dearbhail McDonald
    There are lessons here too for women in other countries fighting movements that seek to roll back their rights, says Irish writer Dearbhail McDonald
  • Leo Varadkar speaks to the media inside Dublin Castle

    Varadkar criticised over ‘gimmicky’ referendum campaign after crushing defeat

    Taoiseach bungled attempt to change wording of Irish constitution, politicians and commentators say
  • Leo Varadkar talking to reporters with a bank of microphones in front of him

    Irish voters overwhelmingly reject proposed changes to constitution

    Taoiseach says government did not do enough to convince people over amending provisions on family and care

February 2024

  • An illustration featuring two men in profile, having an aggressive conversation.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I live with a younger man who denies our sexual history

    Your partner feeling uncomfortable talking about sex is one thing, but someone erasing your past is a problem

December 2023

  • Murundaka back deck

    My big move
    My big move: I was a single mum living in a sharehouse. A commune gave us a stable place to call home

    We held festivals, started an energy cooperative and reduced our waste to almost nothing. But there are downsides to putting idealists of all stripes together

November 2023

  • Your rights if you’re cohabiting

    Money hacks
    Cohabiting couples: your rights on money, property, tax and more

    These are different from those of a spouse, so here’s what you need to know

October 2023

  • Judeg illo 21st Oct

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my wife stop storing baking trays in the oven?

    Sinbad wants Rita to stop putting used baking trays in the oven when it’s still hot. When the acrid smoke has finally cleared, whose argument will you burn?

July 2023

  • Black, grey and pink illustration of a man in a frock coat kissing the hand of a woman with a house on her head

    ‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on its head

    With homes almost beyond reach for all but the luckiest, it’s becoming a truth universally acknowledged that a potential partner’s housing situation has once more begun to have an outsized impact on their romantic suitability

April 2023

  • a couple turning their back on each other

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My partner doesn’t want me on the mortgage – should I be worried?

    A power imbalance in your relationship could spell trouble for the future. It’s time to have an honest conversation

August 2022

  • Lucy Cavendish and sons Raymond (left), Leonard (right) and daughter Ottoline at her home.

    ‘I live with my grown-up children – what’s so wrong with that?’

    With her third child about to leave the nest, our writer asks why cohabiting with our adult offspring is so looked down upon by modern society

July 2022

  • milk alternatives in the fridge

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: does my sister really need five milk alternatives open at once?

    According to Lara, Beatrice is hogging the fridge and wasting her money with her almond, soy, coconut and oat milks. But is Lara just stirring?
  • withering plants

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my housemate water my plants while I’m away?

    Their friendship is withering on the vine. You decide how to keep it alive
  • Dog in bedroom

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my girlfriend’s dog stop sleeping in our bed?

    She lets the dog spend the night with them; he thinks it’s gross. You make the call on where sleeping dogs should lie

June 2022

  • kitchen doors open cartoon

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my boyfriend close the kitchen cupboards after himself?

  • AnnalisaIllo-sleeping

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Since I moved in, my boyfriend will only sleep in our bed twice a week

May 2022

  • Illustration

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my flatmate iron and fold the laundry – including the tea towels?

  • Woman emptying smelly bin

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my partner take the bin out more often?

March 2020

  • Diego Vidal-Cruzprieto and Ewa Lelontko

    Your place or mine? Coronavirus forces couples to choose

    Choice of staying apart for the lockdown – or testing new relationships by moving in together

August 2019

  • There was an 8% increase in the number of families in the UK between 2008 and 2018.

    Cohabiting couples fastest-growing family type, says ONS

    More opposite-sex couples are choosing not to marry, but same-sex marriages increasing
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