How to Protect Your Son from the Manosphere: A Guide for Par...

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The rise of figures like Andrew Tate and the toxic online culture of the ’’manosphere’’ have left many parents wondering: How d...

Old School Wisdom: Goolbai Gunasekara

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This week, we’re excited to feature Goolbai Gunasekara – a celebrated educator, author, and true beacon of wisdom. With a lifetime ...

Love, Lies, and Red Flags: Navigating the Pitfalls of Dating...

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Online dating is a paradox of modern romance - equal parts thrilling and bewildering. For every promising connection, there’s a cauti...

From Valentine’s to wedded couples: A reflection on their ...

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Valentine’s Day over the years has increasingly become a fashionable concept and marketing material, with business entities making th...

A Valentine’s Guide to Love Languages

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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, you might be scrambling to get her the freshest bunch of roses and only the most delecta...

Lost Roots: A Sri Lankan Adoptee’s 20-Year Search for her ...

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For 20 years, Fardau Huisman has been searching for a missing piece of her identity—the truth about her birth family. Born in Sri Lan...

Sri Lankan Parents And Their Beloved Quirks

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If there’s one thing all Sri Lankans can agree on, it’s this: our parents are in a league of their own. They’re equal parts hilar...

Single Mothers

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Being a single mom is not easy. We spoke to some single moms about the challenges of being one.

Is Instant Gratification Killing the Reading Habit Among You...

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It’s no secret that many young people today are reading less than previous generations. As the world becomes increasingly digital, wi...

Finding Joy in Simplicity: Minimalist Christmas Celebrations

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With the holiday season in full swing, Sri Lankans are redefining how they mark Christmas. Traditionally marked with grandeur and abund...

Modern Friendships in the Age of Ghosting

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Friendships have always been fluid, shaped by life’s inevitable ebbs and flows. But in the digital age, the landscape of human connec...

Helping your Child Cope with a Separation and Divorce

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A separation or divorce among parents is a particularly difficult period for children. It is important that they feel loved by both par...

The Watchlist Whisperer: Catfish Documentaries

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Struggling to navigate the ever-expanding world of streaming services and on-demand content? Feeling lost in a sea of options, unsure o...

The Psychology of Catfishing: Why People Pretend to Be Someo...

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Catfishing: we’ve all heard about it, and some unlucky folks have even been on the receiving end of it. It’s the strange phenomenon...

The impact of childhood attachments on adult relationships

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Did you know that every hug, smile and conversation we have with other people is most likely influenced by invisible patterns from our ...

​Grief and Healing After a Suicide: Why Communities Must C...

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The recent deaths of school students have left an unimaginable void in their families, schools, and our broader community. This tragedy...

Unmarried, Happy and Fulfilled!

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Ladies who are unmarried can choose how they spend their lives with perhaps more freedom than those who are married. We spoke to a few ...

The Only Child

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If you are an only child, you may often find that you are labelled as someone who is selfish, self- centered, have trouble sharing, com...

Loved Ones in Care Homes

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With many migrating, families seem to be opting to put their parents or loved ones in care /elders homes. The demand for good care hom...

How to Cope with Widowhood

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Becoming a widow or widower is perhaps one of the toughest situations many have to face. The feelings of grief and loneliness at losing...

Couples Who Work In The Same Profession

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Couples who work in the same profession do full-time jobs that are demanding and their working lives and personal lives are deeply int...

Parenting and Growing Up in the 21st Century

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Today we commence a new column titled IN YOUR OPINION, where important, newsworthy and salient subjects are addressed by a cross sectio...

The Friendship Recession: From weekly drinks to radio silenc...

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The days of calling up the old gang for lunch, chatting it up with your girlfriends as you pull out a tacky dress from the hangers at a...

Celebrating Pride: Breaking Barriers

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n June, we celebrate and recognize LGBTQ Pride Month in honour of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. This commemorative month acknowledges th...

When Your Kids Leave...

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Being a parent means you will face good and bad times, however perhaps one of the biggest challenges parents face is when their c...

The Silence That Speaks Volumes: Rethinking Discipline in Sr...

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Imagine a world where a child’s punishment isn’t measured in screams, but in a chilling silence. A recent video, a stark reminder e...

Beyond the Evil Stepmother: Celebrating the Moms Who Steppe...

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We all know the story. The wicked stepmother who swoops in, poisons apples, and generally makes life miserable for our favourite prince...

Till Divorce Do Us Part

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MARRIAGE IS NOT A BED OF ROSES AND ANY MARRIAGE HAS ITS GOOD AND BAD TIMES. BUT TODAY NUMEROUS YOUNG AND EVEN OLDER COUPLES ARE GETTING...

Break Up Blues

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As much as we think you owe it to your partner to break up face to face, us depraved souls - albeit secretly - are totally thankful tha...