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Real Life

DECEMBER 2020

"No is a complete sentence." 21 women share the most important lesson they learned in 2020.
'I fell in love with a quiet, kind man when I was 20. He never hit me. But he scared me.'
'He was terrified of me being fat.' My boyfriend wanted me to lose weight.
'I always prided myself in being a 'low maintenance girl'. But I was lying to myself.'
'After my husband's affair, my perfect Facebook posts fooled everyone about our marriage.'
We need to talk about farting in relationships and the narrative that 'girls don't s**t'.
"Ever since we divorced, my ex has made Christmas awful for the kids."
When my mum died, she made it about her: My oldest friend is a conversational narcissist.
“I had wrecked their lives.” How an injured bird saved an Australian family.
"I was hiding my real feelings." After months of avoiding conflict, I lost my best friend.
My partner left me for a woman he barely knew. Simply because she was young and hot.
'My husband and I met as FIFO miners. When I left to have our baby, he cheated with a co-worker.'
'He found my secret stash of birth control pills.' My husband wanted kids, but I didn't.
'I don't eat butter chicken every night.' With brown skin comes constant assumptions.
Federal MP Peta Murphy is living with incurable breast cancer. This is her letter to herself.
"Why don't you straighten it permanently?" For months, my boyfriend tried to change me.
"You feel like your worst self." 8 signs that your relationship isn't working.
STAN WALKER: As a boy, I wished my abusive father would die. Later, I learned to understand him.
'I ran into my ex on the other side of the world. I'm not convinced it was a coincidence.'
'When we started dating, he covered me in love bites. I wish I'd seen the red flag.'
9 years ago, police knocked on Jennifer's door. That's when she learned about her daughter's abuse.
Claire Pearson may not be a household name. But she is a sporting champion.