Nearly half of men aged 30-39 are single but 90% want to be in a relationship. So what’s stopping them?

Is turning on to technology making us switch off in our relationships, asks Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

YOU’VE got a 21st century marriage. You share household chores and childcare. You accommodate each other’s careers.

Sex, honesty, going for coffee together — take some tips from the stars.

LAST week Wendi Deng, 44, was busy planning gala dinners and organising piano lessons for her two young daughters, when her husband of 14 years shocked the world.

PITY Sharon Osbourne, 60, photographed last month looking sad, as she holidayed alone at an exclusive Mexican resort, amid rumours that her 31-year marriage to rock star, Ozzy, was on the rocks after he relapsed back into prescription drug and alcohol addiction.

DEAR married, male friends, can you imagine a more irritating task?

YOU are having an intimate conversation, about how many people you’ve had sex with.

Chris O’Dowd’s tweet put his wife on the spot, writes Arlene Harris.

As we mature as a couple we need to adapt together to changes in our lives, says Rachel Borrill.

GIRLFRIENDS come in all shapes and sizes. The ones from way back, who’ve stuck with you when your taste in men was dire and your fashion sense was the pits.

While the traditional flashpoint for couples tends to be the dreaded in-laws - sisters in law, fathers in law, brothers in law, and mothers in law have featured in family discord forever - another point of contention can be your partner’s friends.

IT HAS been another long, tiring day. You are lying in bed, trying to sleep, when suddenly your partner starts caressing your body. He is obviously in the mood for sex. Do you roll over and enjoy it? Or do you agree, but then start thinking about what “reward’’ you want in return?

Is shunning your friends for a few years the recipe for a successful marriage, wonders Sue Leonard

WHEN Seal, the singer, and Mrs Seal, the model, ended their apparently rock-solid marriage a month ago, hands flew to mouths in dismay.

Marriage counsellors say they have been flooded with calls from distraught couples after Christmas.

MARRIAGE counsellors have been inundated with calls from warring couples who are desperate to salvage their relationships after a fraught Christmas.

WHAT is it about older men that makes them irresistible — their wrinkles, their baldness, their slack muscle tone?