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

Alcohol without the hangover? It’s closer than you think

David Nutt: Science now allows us to develop a safer way to get drunk. But before we can sober up in minutes, the drinks industry needs to embrace this healthier approach

The sadness of separation

I cry all the time – I didn't realise being a single mother would be so hard. Thank goodness my mum is coming

The seven stages of separation

Anonymous: We've been ill and R and I have been arguing about a parenting decision. It seems like I'll be stuck on stage three of the seven stages of separation – anger and bargaining – for some time

The novel that gives me insight into my alcoholic husband

I have sort of fallen in love with a character in a novel who is a fortysomething hard-drinking writer – a brutal narcissist and over-the-hill, womanising alcoholic. Some would say I have questionable taste in men

I’ve stopped obsessing about my ex

I'm enjoying time away from my husband and the children. Until recently, he was on my mind all the time – finally I can stop obsessing about him

Women, we’ve got to talk about our drinking

Ann Dowsett Johnston: British girls are the west's biggest teenage drinkers. As we were with tobacco, we're in deep denial about the dangers of alcohol