‘Can a relationship still work without butterflies?’
Ask Roe: ‘Have I built something on a weak foundation? The fact I have doubts makes me worry they must be justified’
‘My sister has stopped putting in effort with me since she had kids’
Ask Roe: ‘I’m told to call over any time, but I’m starting to question the legitimacy of this apparent open-door policy’
I worry my sister’s lack of selfishness is damaging her health
Ask Roe: My sister volunteers to help anyone in need, even when she doesn’t like them that much. It’s heartbreaking to see her in constant pain
Flick by Kate Lister: Lively and funny deep-dive into the history of female pleasure
Lister argues that women have never been less sexual than men, but the narrative has been controlled with a firm male grip
‘My husband cheated on me with sex workers, blew up our family, and is now living his best life’
Ask Roe: Choices your husband made have no reflection on your worth, and are entirely a reflection on him
‘I’m married but have fallen in love with a woman at work’
Ask Roe: ‘Should I try to get counselling for our marriage, or just go with what I feel is right?’
‘My husband was married before and I feel like I’m sloppy seconds’
Ask Roe: How can I trust my husband’s love and commitment, when he has offered it all to someone else before? I am really very scared
‘My husband is more emotionally intimate with his female therapist than he is with me’
Ask Roe: ‘I hear them laughing. When I mention this, he says I am invading his privacy by overhearing’
‘My wife lets the children sleep in our bed while I am kicked out to the guest room every night’
Ask Roe: I was away for work for a while and the children started sleeping in our room every night. I feel excluded
‘I take hours to orgasm and my husband can’t last that long’
Ask Roe: Our current approach upsets me because I feel my man doesn’t want to continue for my pleasure or orgasm
‘I’m a man in my 40s and feel like I don’t have any real friendships’
Ask Roe: I always make an effort to fit in, but I worry this is now coming across as desperate
The Nuremberg Women by Natalie Livingstone: Memory always a question of where we choose to look
Work builds an archive against absence, showing how the story of Nuremberg has been shaped by the forgetting of women
‘My husband says he just wants to live together as friends’
Ask Roe: ‘He repeatedly reassured me we were not in trouble but now he is saying I am the problem’
‘I’m very clear on dating apps that I want love. The dates agree initially but then disappear’
Ask Roe: Much to the dismay of my nervous system, situationships seem to have become the default setting
‘My partner’s blunt communication style is grating on my nerves. Should we break up?’
Ask Roe: How my partner expresses himself is starting to take from my enjoyment of the relationship. What should I do?