Sitemap - 2024 - The Shoulds by Francesca Specter

Writing prompts to help you plan 2025

How to navigate the December 'should-haves'

Love, friendship and the rush to categorise

How to have better conversations at parties

The broccolification of fun

Air fryers, and the lure of speeding up the process

Issue #92: Is getting angry ever a good idea?

Issue #91: Cooking for one is a power move – just ask Waitrose

Issue #90: Trusting the process

Issue #89: Which way to happy?

Issue #88: How rituals keep us connected

Issue #87: IKEA, and the myth of compartmentalisation

Issue #86: The shoulds that became daily habits

Issue #85: The first-date rules of adult friendship

Issue #84: Everything I did on my New York trip

Issue #83: Becoming the man I wanted to marry

Issue #82: Is it intimacy, or 'Into me, you see'?

Issue #81: I'm taking a summer break – here's how I'll be spending it

Issue #80: How an alternative dating app went mainstream

Issue #79: Has loneliness become a business opportunity?

Issue #78: The one 'stupid' question I always ask

Issue #77: Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans

Issue #76: Can we be each other's parallel lives?

Issue #75: Remembering how to be alone, when you're out of practice

Issue #74: Why I quit therapy (and then started again)

Issue #73: I'm in my ‘Hey, Bridge, how's your love life?’ era

The problem with giving 100 per cent

Issue #72: The lessons I learnt from overwhelm

Issue #71: Do hobbies have an expiry date?

Issue #70: Good for you, sad for me

Issue #69: The 9 qualities I look for in a friend

Issue #68: How to romanticise your life

Issue #67: Reframing the choice to be childfree

Issue #66: How much alone time is too much?

Issue #65: The ones that got away

Issue #64: Ghosting, WhatsApp statuses, 24/7 news & other things we normalise (that aren't actually 'normal')

Issue #63: What could Happily Ever After look like, single?

Issue #62: Does the sleep 'trend' do more harm than good?

Issue #61: 12 practical routes back to emotional base camp

Issue #60: The simple life lesson I learnt on my yoga retreat (that has nothing to do with yoga)