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Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: My husband gets angry about the amount I spend

Dear Virginia, As a full-time mother of two young boys, I'm financially dependent on my husband.

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Virginia Ironside: Next week's dilemma

Monday, 29 March 2010

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Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: My ex-husband's new wife doesn't want me at his funeral

Monday, 22 March 2010

Dear Virginia, I had been married to my husband for 30 years when he suddenly seemed to have a brainstorm – he left me for an Italian woman, moved to Italy and married her. Now, just six months after they married, he has died of a heart attack.

Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: My partner is an alcoholic

Monday, 15 March 2010

Dear Virginia,My partner is an alcoholic who has been trying to give up drinking for years. He's been in a variety of treatment centres, and attends Alcoholics Anonymous.

Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: Our daughter is being indoctrinated about global warming

Monday, 8 March 2010

Dear Virginia, Our daughter is only seven, but it appears that she's being indoctrinated about global warming at school.

Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: I want to separate from my husband and have a life of my own

Monday, 1 March 2010

Dear Virginia, I've been married to my husband for 25 years and our children have left home. We've started to live pretty much separate lives – I know he has the odd girlfriend, but I don't mind.

Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: What can I say that doesn't alienate me from my sister and niece?

Monday, 22 February 2010

Dear Virginia,My young niece wrote from Australia asking to stay for a couple of months so she could look for a job. I said I'd happily look out for employment, but that my partner and I can't put her up because our tolerance of having anyone else in the house extends only to a long weekend! I got a furious email from her mother, my older sister, reminding me I'd stayed with her when I was a student, and saying she never wants to see me again. What can I say that doesn't alienate me from my sister and niece? Yours Sincerely, Alex

The endless causes of back pain

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Sash Newman, CEO of charity BackCare, Dan Franklin, leading physiotherapist from Back in Action and GP Dr Sarah Jarvis discuss the endless causes of back pain, a problem suffered by 7 in 10 people in the UK every year.

Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: I feel exhausted and tearful after my operation

Monday, 15 February 2010

Dear Virginia,Six weeks ago I had to have a hysterectomy. It all went really well (it was nothing to do with cancer) and for a week after the operation, I felt fine – and fine when I got home, too. But recently, just when I should be starting to feel better, I've felt utterly exhausted and tearful, worse than when I came round from the operation. I'm off all drugs and my doctor says there's nothing wrong – so why do I feel so wretched?Yours sincerely, Fiona

Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: Should I go back to work now my children are at school?

Monday, 8 February 2010

Dear Virginia,I've always stayed at home to look after my children, who are now aged three and four, and both at school for part of the day. Now I've been offered my old job back. My partner says I should go for it, because he can look after them one day a week and the rest of the time there are after-school clubs and childminders they can go to. I know some mums who go straight back to work a week after the baby's born – but my children still seem to need me. What shall I do?Yours sincerely, Jennie

Daddy dearest: The son of a self-help guru reveals all

Sunday, 7 February 2010

As his absent father made millions preaching feel-good self-help, Oran Canfield spiralled into a life of drug-fuelled self-loathing. But can his contentious new memoir of a troubled childhood really be good for the soul?

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