When Sydneysider Deb Griffin and three of her Australian girlfriends spent a day in Auckland in 1974 it was one of those moments that stays with you for the rest of your life.

Q: "My husband and I mostly have a happy and loving relationship but he is sometimes quite unkind to our 15-year-old son - a typical teen but a good kid."

Children raised by a single parent are no less happy than those living with two biological parents, a study has found.

Stressed at work? Not getting along with your colleagues? The answer is simple. Take your pooch into the office - and many Kiwis are doing just that.

Naturalist Charles Darwin's theory that music's primary function is sexual courtship may have been proved right.

What is it about these little ankle biters that we love so much? I say 'we' as I have gone to the small side myself with two pomeranian X Japanese spitz balls of fluff.

National Party powerbrokers Peter Goodfellow and long-term partner Desley Simpson have married in an intimate service at a resthome.

Olympic rowers Mahe Drysdale and Juliette Haigh are celebrating a nappy Easter after revealing they are expecting their first child.

How important is sharing a bed with your partner? Relationship expert Jill Goldson explains.

It's time to celebrate all that marriage equality has given society, writes Lee Suckling. Importantly, it's also time to reflect on what it hasn't given us.

If you can answer yes to one of the following questions, you are perpetuating the type of cruelty that would result in a prosecution should we be discussing cats and dogs.

The wonderful thing about being a supportive wife - my challenge for a year - is that you get to wear a self-bestowed halo for the good work you are doing.

The 21-year-old, born in England and now living in Wellington, said she once attended a support group for children of same-sex parents after moving to New Zealand. Her family was the only one there.

Your eyes seem to lock, you just about finish one another's sentences, you feel a surge of soulmate recognition - then bam, date’s over, and you’re back home.

Delaney Mes shares eight great dates you should add to your to-do list.

People all across the globe erupted into fawning fits of hyperbole when the latest family photograph of the Cambridges (William, Kate, baby George and dog Lupo) at their Kensington Palace apartment was released.

American fashion designer Tom Ford has married his partner Richard Buckley.

Spending too long on Twitter makes you more likely to break up with your partner, a study claims.

Man's best friend is increasingly taking antidepressants to get a new leash on life.

It’s all sweetness now, but just wait. Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s divorce may get nasty, says William Langley.

Watch out world, Grumpy Cat has hit her terrible twos.

I’ve been with my wife for 23 years, married for 20 of them. We get along fine, but I don’t think I find her attractive anymore.

Not quite a duck face, but Bruce the koala and his friend Jay have become quite the experienced selfie-snappers at Wildlife Sydney Zoo.

Miranda Kerr has hinted she wants to explore relationships with women in the aftermath of her marriage breakdown.

The quest for exaggerated breed characteristics deemed desirable by show judges has encouraged inbreeding with subsequent health and welfare issues for dogs.

I want to believe in the inter-connectedness of things, I really do.

A vintage relationship guide aimed at women reveals the outrageous sexism practiced by men during the Forties.

Pheromone parties claim to put science into search for love - by allowing you to choose a mate by odour. Sophie Robehmed sniffs out her perfect partner.

You remember the cliché about "kicking the cat" after a bad day? I think sometimes we might be kinder to our animals than we sometimes are to our partners.

When Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced they were "consciously uncoupling" after 10 years of marriage, many wondered what exactly that entailed.