As families across the globe prepare for the madness that are the Christmas celebrations, there is one woman who isn’t engaging. Melanie Daly, from London, on the joys of spending Christmas alone… The official...
Author - Christabel Smith
Christabel Smith
Last conversations with my mother
No matter your age, it comes as a seismic shock when your mother loses her mind. Christabel Smith navigates the choppy verbal seas of her mother’s Alzheimer’s… Ten years ago, when I was 42, my 80-year-old mother –...
I forgave my husband’s affair because we’ve got too much to lose
Finding out your other half has betrayed you can rock – and divide – families and households. But everyone’s way of dealing with this is different.. It has never been easier to uncover an infidelity than it is today...
Family competitions and inheritance wars
Nothing creates family feuds quite like differences over money. And you know what they say, ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a family disputing it’… The number-one cause of family feuds? Inheritance. Even Nelson Mandela’s...
Would you log on to find love?
GSOH ASAP! Online dating newbies Carol, 55, and Jeremy, 62, share glimpses of their dating diaries – the lows, the highs, and the little swipe lies… CAROL Carol Gardener, from Surrey, says: ‘The idea of meeting someone...