Relationships Archives : Alexandra Spring /category/lifestyle/relationships/ Features, interviews and essays Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:27:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 /wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-alex-spring-logo-greenswash.png Relationships Archives : Alexandra Spring /category/lifestyle/relationships/ 32 32 How they stay together: what 68 long-term couples taught me about love /how-they-stay-together-what-68-long-term-couples-taught-me-about-love/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:00:56 +0000 / “There were times when I think we could have come close to splitting,” says academic David Christian. Author Chardi Christian, his wife of 50 years, nods. “[But] we worked hard at not [splitting],” says David, “and in fact I think we both really didn’t want to split.” Being in a relationship that endures is something […]

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]]> Valentine’s Day: six things we learned from asking couples how they stay together /valentines-day-six-things-we-learned-from-asking-couples-how-they-stay-together/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:26:25 +0000 / Everyone knows that couple: the one that endures no matter what life throws at them. So how do they do it Over the last few months, we’ve asked 15 couples that question – and, as Tolstoy suggested when he wrote “all happy families are alike”, there were some common themes. Friendship is key Almost every […]

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]]> How politics is ruining dating – or should I date a Spectator reader? /how-politics-is-ruining-dating-or-should-i-date-a-spectator-reader/ Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:51:48 +0000 / It’s the question that, at some point, has to be asked: would you date someone with opposing politics I was happily exchanging messages with someone through an online dating app recently. He looked attractive enough in his pictures, and the conversation was interesting, he seemed engaged and eloquent. And he hadn’t propositioned me three messages […]

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]]> Married at First Sight: ludicrous reality show offers flicker of hope in a cynical world /married-at-first-sight-ludicrous-reality-show-offers-flicker-of-hope-in-a-cynical-world/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:14:30 +0000 / Channel Nine’s series is a compulsory TV engagement in which the participants are just hoping to survive the perils of dating Last night, 1.3 million Australians uttered the same phrase at exactly the same time: “Finally!” Finally air hostess/model Nadia called bullshit on perennially smug race caller Anthony. On a romantic date, as the pair […]

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]]> Gayby Baby’s director: These are real kids that had to go to school on Wednesday /gayby-babys-director-these-are-real-kids-that-had-to-go-to-school-on-wednesday/ Sun, 30 Aug 2015 08:45:08 +0000 / Maya Newell on making the film, celebrations amid controversy and why a marriage equality plebiscite could have dangerous repercussions

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