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AI is becoming an ideal partner. Why that's an issue

Artificial intelligence did not suddenly arrive in our love lives with ChatGPT. Dating apps have used algorithms and machine learning for years to...

21.09.2026 30

The New Daily

Lisa Portolan

Australia has changed, and so have our divorces

For decades, divorce was treated as a sign that something had gone wrong: A marriage had failed, a family had fractured and a promise had been broken....

26.08.2026 50

The New Daily

Lisa Portolan

Is Pauline Hanson the ultimate pick-me girl?

There is something almost perfectly pick-me about Pauline Hanson. The term “pick-me girl” is usually cast around on TikTok and social media as an...

28.07.2026 40

The New Daily

Lisa Portolan

Taylor Swift's wedding: Why did we care so much?

Few cultural moments reveal our contradictions quite like a wedding. We live in an era where marriage is no longer considered the inevitable...

10.07.2026 60

The New Daily

Lisa Portolan

Ghosting goes offline: Rise of the blindside divorce

Belle Burden’s best-selling memoir Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, which chronicles the sudden collapse of her 21-year marriage, has brought a...

29.06.2026 50

The New Daily

Lisa Portolan

Nonnamaxxing: The fantasy of inherited nostalgia

Every few months, the internet invents a new aesthetic. Cottagecore. Clean girl. Tomato girl summer. Mob wife chic. Now, gen Z has turned its gaze...

15.06.2026 50

The New Daily

Lisa Portolan

People once cited romcoms to describe the love they hoped for. Now the doomscroll has replaced the meet-cute

When I first researched dating apps and intimacy almost a decade ago, participants would regularly reach for romantic comedies to describe the kind of...

23.04.2026 40

The Guardian

Lisa Portolan

The ‘grey divorce’ phenomenon doesn’t signal a retreat from love. It’s a redefinition of it

As Valentine’s Day approaches, we are once again flooded with the usual suspects: roses, chocolates, sophisticated dinners and glossy ads featuring...

14.02.2026 100

The Guardian

Lisa Portolan

Boyfriends are cringe. But is the #boysober trend a feminist reclamation or a neoconservative tilt?

12.11.2025 80

The Guardian

Lisa Portolan