I should have realised from the outset that it wasn’t going to work. The distance, the obstacles in our way were huge. You had your life, I had mine but we clung to each other for comfort despite the pain like clinging onto a fist full of nettles.

The dirty dishes in the sink, the greying underwear on the back of the kitchen door and dog shit all over the driveway on our first date were sure sig...

Without you I would be ok but life would be so quiet. No alarm to wake me up each day or reason to go on a diet.

Without you I would still be me but I wouldn’t be reminded that I can be funny, I can be random, and there’s joy to be found in the quiet.

Without you I would still have adventures but I would have no one to kiss at the summit, to dance with naked in the rain or to hold me when lif...