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...

Types of Sri Lankan Dates

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For the last two weeks, my usual shortcut back home after work is no longer short; what took me under twenty minutes now takes me forty...

15 Things Lankan Girls want in a Guy

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Apart from having so much fun writing what Guys wanted in a Girl, I was inspired to write this because someone triggered me by asking w...

What Lankan Guys Want in a Girl

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I remember seeing a very popular meme on social media on the extent of their knowledge about the opposite sex – and it was a blank bi...

The Dating Do-Nots in Sri Lanka

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If you have had to use a public toilet at Majestic City, you will realise how Sri Lankans need a manual for just about anything. Is the...

How Lankan Couples go Official

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I think I’ve finally figured out why Sri Lankans find local cuisine a complex challenge. Can anything be cooked without adding sevent...

The Seven Sri Lankan Exes

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As a female, I feel that sometimes I am more biased towards my own kind – today, I am going to side with guys as I take on the Types ...

Dating for the 30 Year Old Sri Lankan Girl

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My 27-year-old colleague was complaining that she had nine weddings to attend during the remaining 5 months.

Dating for the 30 Year Old Sri Lankan Girl

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You know how the popular adage goes, ‘single and available’? Well, I was a little over the top.

Sri Lankan Dating Advice

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If you have met a Sri Lankan who doesn’t dish out relationship advice like the chap who vends out kadala on the pavement in Nugegoda,...

When Sri Lankan Couples Break Up

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Sri Lankans are a funny bunch. Isn’t it strange that we have the highest number of hits on local news media sites that feature abysma...

The Seven Sri Lankan Guys You will Date

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You might be thinking, ‘Just seven? Is that all?’ Absolutely not! These are the most popular types that you and I have would possib...

Types of Lankan Mothers in Law

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A few weeks ago, Facebook was filled with ardent posts wishing both Mothers and Mothers in Law for Mother’s Day. For someone who love...