Marriage in recovery: R is grumpy but apologises for it – progress

When R's behaviour was so unpleasant I wanted to scoop the children up and run away. I wouldn't tolerate such sore days now

I still feel guilty about my children’s upbringing

I have a fractious relationship with my daughter – it's seldom been peaceful but is currently aflame

Marriage in recovery: After nine years together, would I change anything?

I don't tell R that he was the third person along the line that I was set to marry, but he was the only real suitor

I’m letting myself off the hook for being scatty

I've always been chaotic but you can't change your whole personality

Don’t lecture students about alcohol when austerity will hurt them most

Nat Rutherford: Students might be forgiven for resorting to binge-drinking as they are amassing an average £40,000 worth of debt

Marriage in recovery: Sex and putting a sock in it

Why did I have to ruin a nice morning in bed with R by going on about his socks?

A bottle of wine a day is harmless? The evidence suggests otherwise

Suzi Gage: Claims that alcohol is only harmful to health if you drink more than 13 units per day are unsubstantiated

Dry bars – is England sobering up?

Britain may be falling out of love with alcohol. As more and more dry bars open across the country, John Harris asks if we may be entering a new age of temperance

Court of appeal to decide whether heavy drinking while pregnant is a crime

Local authority's case against woman who had child with foetal alcohol syndrome could have far-reaching legal implications

There are very good reasons a foetus cannot be a victim of crime

Zoe Williams: Criminalising women who drink while pregnant would set a profoundly dangerous legal precedent. Support for the idea is driven by wild overestimates of foetal alcohol syndrome

Is it ever OK to drink before driving?

UK drivers can legally have a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08%, the highest in Europe. But new evidence suggests drivers should think again before having even one glass of wine

I feel out-of-character optimism about the year ahead

I can do a 'spot-the-difference' exercise along the annual timeline and things with R have definitely improved

I always wanted to be a mother

Anonymous: From as young as I can remember I always wanted to have children. Find a man, have unprotected sex, then worry about all the rest later was the plan

Do the maths: the science behind the numbers that govern our lives

Eat five portions of fruit and veg, drink eight glasses of water, exercise five times a week… these figures grab our attention, but do the numbers really add up? Rosie Ifould finds out