Author: Isabel Dempsey
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Elizabeth Day teaches us how to break up
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The ‘How to Fail’ podcast host has recently launched a new project: ‘How to Date’. But how do her heartbreaks’ past inform the lessons she teaches? Elizabeth Day has built her career on failure. The most prominent “failure” of them all being heartbreak. “Heartbreak informs everything that I do,” she…
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A little crush never hurt anyone
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Found yourself thinking about someone other than your partner? Wondering if it’s grounds to end it? We spoke to relationship experts and people who have been there to break down when to fight for it, or when to walk away. When Archie* was 15 the girl he was seeing told…
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What can Jane Austen teach us about heartbreak 250 years later?
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Isabel Dempsey takes a look at the ongoing messages of love and loss we can take from the writer’s work Jane Austen may be turning 250 this year, but her tales of love, both gained and lost, are still as relevant as ever. While she is best (mis)remembered by Colin…
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Divorce lawyers chat splitting the assets of your first love
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Even before marriage, our lives become financially and emotionally tangled. But when your first love reaches its tragic end, how do you split your shared possessions? The Split spoke to divorce lawyers Mel Loxley, Karen Taylor, Shelley Cumbers and Jon Armstrong about how best to amicably divide your assets My…
