Ask Roe: ‘We don’t have much to talk about and our time together only revolves around sex’

Tell Me About It: We have decided to stay together but it has been an uphill battle to rebuild trust

Ask Roe: ‘If this was a romantic, I would have a conversation about it but as it’s with friends, should I let it slide?’

Tell Me About It: I spent the night with someone I shouldn’t have . . . I feel like I cannot stop myself from self-destruction

Ask Roe: ‘He went to the doctor but didn’t mention the cocaine, and he has been prescribed antidepressants but he won’t take them’

Ask Roe: ‘I want to find love and a real relationship like my friends who go out with nice guys’

Ask Roe: Stress, anxiety and a lack of connection can fuel this kind of thinking

Ask Roe: Take care of yourself – but also be so proud of yourself. Feel so grateful that you’re free of this man

How to survive the season of joy and goodwill to all – according to a neuropsychologist’s advice

Ask Roe: ‘On holidays we have much more frequent sex, but never manage to take that renewal home with us’

For many, Christmas is a re-entry into the emotional climate of childhood, with all its insecurities, unspoken rules and long-held tensions

Tell Me About It: I’m bringing my partner home for the first time. He’s not Irish, and I’m worried he’ll judge my family

Ask the Expert: ‘I worry that they will blame me for the separation. They both idolise their Dad’

Ask Roe: ‘How is it possible to date when you’re terrified that the person across from you is alt-right?’

My mother-in-law is a control freak and she criticises everything I do, say or wear

Ask Roe: My husband’s family are controlling and he never sticks up for me. I see him as weak and pathetic sometimes

Tell Me About It: My wife wanted me to retire five years ago, and we had plans for travelling. I stubbornly kept putting it off

how can I get her more comfortable so that she will share this experience with me during our lovemaking ?

It took a long time for me to earn this child’s trust but I feel like I am getting sucked into her mother’s black cloud

Tell Me About It: ‘Extended family and friends subtly, and not-so-subtly, suggest that I’d be happier in a relationship’