My girlfriend and I have been together for six months. The sex is great, but there’s one thing that’s troubling me. She always initiates it.

My new boyfriend is lovely, but painfully polite — and his excessive consideration even extends to the bedroom. He says thank you after sex. I know he means well, but I find it terribly deflating, not to mention a huge turn-off.

"Tell them you love them every day," is the heart-breaking advice given by a Co Louth husband who now tenderly applies his wife's make-up for her after she suffered a stroke over a year ago.

I’ve started dating a really gorgeous, passionate woman. We haven’t had sex yet and she jokes about how buttoned-up I am. To be honest, I am worried she is right. I really fancy her — I can’t believe my luck. But I’m feeling so intimidated that I have been putting off sex with her.

We really don’t realise how beautiful our little emerald really is.

They really do grow up so fast.

This is the sweetest thing you’ll see all day.

My new boyfriend has a few irritating habits in the bedroom, such as quite sloppily nibbling my earlobes, and it feels a bit like bad erotica. I’ve tried moving him away, focusing elsewhere, but he keeps going back to his ‘moves’. I feel as though it would crush him if I said anything. Are we sexually incompatible?

With the new season of the hit reality TV show already having one week under its’ belt we cast a look back to one of our favourite couples from last season - Camilla and Jamie.

Sally and Donal Daly have been fostering for 30 years, they are there for children in a time of crisis, writes Catherine Shanahan.

A couple in their 80s have spoken of their nightmare after they got caught up in a suspected gas explosion at their home in Cork over the weekend, writes Olivia Kelleher.

Single people on the waiting list in West Cork have, effectively, not a “hope in hell” of being accommodated by the local authority — but they could “bond” with like-minded people or even get married to boost their chances.

A man shot his girlfriend in the head then killed himself during a gunfight with police after a two-day, cross-state crime spree in which they allegedly stabbed an elderly widower to death and stole two cars and a gun, police have said.

Love is in the air…

The betrayal!

Latest: A couple who were live tweeting their journey to Liverpool to terminate a pregnancy have tweeted a picture of the recovery room.

A couple married for 62 years made us all cry when a photo surfaced of them saying one of many tearful goodbyes.

Just wow…

Ain't nothin' like flying on the wings of love!

Police are excavating the former home of a paedophile couple who knew serial killers Fred and Rose West.

A couple in their 50s have escaped injury after an arson attack in west Belfast.

Passion usually fades a year into a relationship, says Áilín Quinlan. So what do the experts say about turning up the heat in bed?

Two same-sex couples have pledged to invite Northern Ireland Assembly members to their weddings, if they vote to legalise them.

A man who was holding his partner’s hand in a Dublin restaurant as they celebrated a recent anniversary claims he was asked to leave by a manager as other diners had complained about them.

A young couple believed to be from the North have been found dead washed up on a beach in South Africa.

Pope Francis has canonised the Catholic Church’s first married couple in modern times, declaring the parents of the beloved St Therese of Lisieux saints in their own right.

And he's just as nice as we imagined he would be.

The UK couple released a statement to Amnesty International Irelans, saying that they would vote Yes if they were Irish residents.

If there was an emergency and you had to contact your loved one, keep in mind you mightn’t have your mobile to hand, do you now the number of the person you should ring at that time?

Lillian “Lill” Karr Wilson, 89, and William “Wild Bill” Wilson, 93, lived in two separate care homes.

An English couple have won £1m in the EuroMillions for the second time — beating odds of more than 283bn to one.