Stephen Fry’s Toyboy Engagement

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Stephen Fry’s Toyboy Engagement

With the news of Stephen Fry and Elliot Spencer’s engagement, Twitter was abuzz with its usual snarky comments about celebrity age-gap relationships. Comedian, writer and television host Fry, 57, and comedian Spencer, 27, spilled the news tweeting yesterday “Oh. It looks as though a certain cat is out of a certain bag” after The Sun […]
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The Best Gift of All…

So here I am on a Sunday morning, school uniforms rotating in the tumble dryer, sat at my PC with a hot mug of tea. With a slightly unfocused mind from cumulative lack of sleep, I’m trying to decide on the subject of my last blog before New Year. This blog is targeted at people […]
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It’ll Never Last… Or Will It?

It Will Never Last! This is one of the commonest responses to the reality of a man having any kind of relationship with a considerably older woman. In November 2014, I was watching the news and a piece with the wonderful Gillian Lynne DBE was featured. This lady (and she is a lady), who can […]
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Wants and Needs: What really makes a relationship work?

At times, that which we desire can differ from that which we are truly looking for. We may envision the perfect partner to be tall, muscular and handsome, yet the reality of the situation is often an entirely different matter. Truth be told, we can be blinded by characteristics we believe a potential partner shouts […]
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6 Reasons Why You Haven’t Met The ONE Yet

Hello Ladies, Do you fall into the Bridget Jones category? Are you single and looking for more than one night? You’re looking for that other half who will be your match until the day you die? Looking but not finding… why is that?   Often the media labels women between 30-45 to be ‘husband hunters’ […]
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5 Untold Reasons Why Men Crave Older Lovers

I read an article in last weekend’s Sunday Times about cougars in France, noting that the new economy minister (aged 36) is married to a 56 year old. The piece suggests that such couples are becoming a bit of a social phenomenon there, with 20% of first time brides in 2012 being older than their […]
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Rise in toyboy divorces: bad judgement or just bad luck?

A law firm notes a rise in toyboy husbands filing for divorce; is it ‘game over’ for the cougar wife? It can feel like a modern-day rite of passage for a younger man to date an ‘older woman’.   Sometimes it’s born of curiosity; is it really true that cougars have higher sex drives and are […]
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The pursuit of pleasure – do we deserve great sex?

Many of us believe that we live in a time in which we are sexually liberated. Unlike generations before us, we have easy access to contraception; and it’s no longer taboo to have sex outside of marriage. Sexual imagery pierces every form of media that we are exposed to. In the age of reality TV, […]
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Faking It: Why We Lie About The Big ‘O’

We have all had those presents at Christmas, usually in the form of woollen knitwear, where we thank the elderly relative with a forced smile, and a line along the lines of ‘It’s just what I always wanted!’   Little white lies help protect the feelings of the people we love, but what about lying […]
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