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Joe Camilleri married his first wife, Angela, when he was 20, but their marriage was marked by a huge loss.

Joe’s had five kids with three women, now he doesn’t know how to ask a girl out

Life on the road with the Black Sorrows means musician Joe Camilleri “missed a lot of birthdays”.

  • Jane Rocca

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Charli XCX dials down the lace in a Vivienne Westwood minidress at her July 2025 wedding.

Marriage is getting a high-profile rebrand. I remain unconvinced

The only way to ensure you’ll never get divorced is to never get married. Until further notice, that is my plan.

  • Kate Leaver
Sheryle Bagwell, as a child, and her mother on a cruise from Sydney to Melbourne.

Mum sacrificed everything for us. After she died at 41, I honoured her lifelong wish

The 1970s was a decade of great change for women. Sadly for my mother, they came too late.

  • Sheryle Bagwell
Amanda Pelman with Kylie Minogue in Las Vegas in 2024.

Kylie Minogue, Michael Gudinski and my ‘betrayal’ to the dark side

Music executive Amanda Pelman also shares the ups and downs of her love life, including an 18-year marriage to singer Brian Cadd.

  • Jane Rocca
Skye Edwards, of Morcheeba, had two children from each of her major relationships, the latter through IVF.

After our relationship was discovered, my partner was fired. It exposed a double standard

After Morcheeba singer Skye Edwards’ husband beat cancer, the couple struggled to conceive.

  • Jane Rocca
Belle Burden had no idea about her husband’s affair until a fateful phone call.

Belle always thought her marriage was solid. Then she got a call that ripped her apart

The mother of three still doesn’t know why her husband cheated on her, then left.

  • Charlotte Heathcote
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The spider was huge and leering. Her ‘dying’ husband would have to wait

Wifely devotion has its limits. So does our ability to digest onions.

  • Anson Cameron
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in the raunchy 2026 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.

The unsettling truth? Almost no matter what generation, there’s a hunger for marriage plot movies

Why does Hollywood keep remaking films of classic 19th-century novels by women? It’s the superhero franchise for female fans.

  • Esther Zuckerman
Women are flipping the script on romance in midlife.

Rachel spent five years ‘quiet quitting’ her marriage. Her husband didn’t see it coming

Whether single, divorced or “subconsciously uncoupling”, a growing number of women of a certain age – and means – are rethinking their romantic relationships.

  • Stephanie Wood
“Even at 20, I knew I wanted more than a job and a marriage,” Kaitlin says. “I loved that Aaron had the same passion.”

As Kaitlin sweated through malaria in Africa, Aaron fell in love with her in a new way

Aaron and Kaitlin Tait met 22 years ago in Spain. He was a young naval officer, she a Californian college student, and they both dreamed of changing the world.

  • Louise Southerden