The Shoulds by Francesca Specter

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I'm taking a summer break – here's how I'll be spending it
More time in my nest, less self-sabotage.
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June 2024

Issue #80: How an alternative dating app went mainstream
And what it says about fatigued online daters.
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Issue #79: Has loneliness become a business opportunity?
And is that really such a bad thing?
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Issue #78: The one 'stupid' question I always ask
Language is power, wrote Angela Carter. Sure – but it shouldn't be a private members' club.
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Issue #77: Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans
Or, how Seth Godin's queue analogy gave me an existential crisis.
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May 2024

Issue #76: Can we be each other's parallel lives?
We’re taught to compare and covet what others have – but what if we share in it, instead?
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Issue #75: Remembering how to be alone, when you're out of practice
Or, a tale of two easyJet flights.
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Issue #74: Why I quit therapy (and then started again)
Plus, should therapists intervene if clients can't afford their sessions?
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Issue #73: I'm in my ‘Hey, Bridge, how's your love life?’ era
Why this question makes me want to invent a long-distance boyfriend.
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The problem with giving 100 per cent
'If you aim to give your whole self to everything, and to everyone, then what's left for you?' asks Natalie Lue, in this month's intergenerational…
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April 2024

March 2024

Issue #71: Do hobbies have an expiry date?
Plus, confessions of an underage aunt.
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