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Alison Taylor

@lovefoolforever

Alison Taylor is a columnist for Independent Saturday mag, and Senior Digital Editor at Topshop.

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Single life versus a relationship: Which one is more interesting?

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What questions should you ask a potential new partner on a first date?

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What's the secret of a lasting marriage?

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Do you have to fancy somebody straightaway?

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Should women use the leap year to propose?

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Should you get annoyed if your partner is on the phone all the time?

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Valentine's Day: How do you approach a stranger you fancy?

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Do I really have to do Valentine's Day?

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My partner keeps expressing unwanted opinions about my hair

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Instagram can be hollow and confusing for daters

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Do you need to find the same things funny in a relationship?

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Why do the biggest rows always start over the smallest things?

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Is New Year the time for relationship resolutions?

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Is New Year the time for relationship resolutions?

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Happn: 2015 is the year app dating really kicked off

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Should you get off with someone at the Christmas office do?

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Should you say what Christmas gift you want or let it be a surprise?

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How long should you wait before moving in together?

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How long should you wait before moving in together?

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Ghosting happens all the time on dating apps such as Tinder

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Should you use chat-up lines?

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Should you reveal how many people you've slept with?

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When should you say 'I love you'?

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Should my partner and I go on a "break"?

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Should you go to bed on an argument?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Your place or mine?

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Is social media bad for a relationship?

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Should you go to bed on an argument?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Your place or mine?

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Is social media bad for a relationship?

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If you won't date people your own age, grow up

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If you won't date people your own age, grow up

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Should you let one text ruin everything?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: You’ve been exchanging messages with

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Alison Taylor on relationships: There's no marker for platonic bonds,

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Alison Taylor on relationships: There's no marker for platonic bonds,

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Alison Taylor on relationships: There's no marker for platonic bonds,

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Alison Taylor: 'The late-night taxi is intrinsic to modern romance'

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Unconventional relationships are definitely 'on trend'

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Lessons from my phone diary

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Alison Taylor on relationships: As Married at First Sight has shown,

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Heightism is rife on apps like Tinder

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My boyfriend has views about

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My boyfriend has views about

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My boyfriend has a job - my folks are

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My friend has fallen for a chap she

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Alison Taylor on relationships: 'To text or not to text - that is the

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Nostalgia is about appreciating the

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Nostalgia is about appreciating the

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As a single woman here's a sense that if you're still going out and getting drunk then you're desperate and perhaps a little unhinged
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Alison Taylor on relationships: Take a walk on the wild side

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Men doing stereotypically masculine things is just sexy

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Alison Taylor on relationships: All these apparitions are making me

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Alison Taylor on relationships: A bout of diarrhoea is not the best

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Alison Taylor on relationships: A bout of diarrhoea is not the best

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Alison Taylor on relationships: I was rescued... by a purple-flowered

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Alison Taylor on relationships: I was rescued... by a purple-flowered

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Alison Taylor on relationships: I've become part of a new social

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Experiencing firsts with people you

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Alison Taylor on relationships: We are irretrievably married to

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My parents are my greatest love of all

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Alison Taylor on relationships: I feel like I'm on the ledge. The

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Alison Taylor on relationships: There's nothing like an elephant in

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Alison Taylor on relationships: You can't falsify intimacy, however

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Alison Taylor on relationships: If you can't resist checking Tinder

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Alison Taylor on relationships: I decided to come clean that we'd

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Alison Taylor on relationships: I decided to come clean that we'd

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Alison Taylor on relationships: What happens when there's a culture

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Are we not all romance fraudsters?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Let's BATHE in the misery of one of my

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My inner dialogue is telling me that

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Alison Taylor on relationships: My inner dialogue is telling me that

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Alison Taylor on relationships: An an intimacy junkie, I find The Love

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Much like gyms at this time of year,

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Do you want to get lucky in love in

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Alison Taylor on relationships: This year I have decided to adopt a

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Alison Taylor on relationships: 'The Joy of Sex is the second best

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Alison Taylor: My Christmas isn't defined by the fact that I don't

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Alison Taylor: You've got to love a bad boy ... but why?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Julien Blanc is a pick-up artist? The

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Do I come across too serial killer-y?

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It’s not pleasant, feeling cornered

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Alison Taylor on relationships: We're creating a romantic apartheid, a

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Alison Taylor on relationships: 'Single shaming' is getting boring

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Is it good to receive a lemon or an

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Alison Taylor on relationships: What are the politics of hand-holding

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Remote-control vibrators. Really?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Bedroom antics? I love a box-set

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Alison Taylor on relationships: What are the politics of hand-holding

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Remote-control vibrators. Really?

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Bedroom antics? I love a box-set

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Alison Taylor on relationships: September just got sexy. Apparently

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Let's bring back good-old-fashioned

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Alison Taylor on relationships: WhatsApp with all this researching

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Call it my Warren Beatty phase but,

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Alison Taylor on relationships: Being alone is a skill, OK?

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Alison Taylor: It's pursue pursue pursue, like a lovesick puppy, then

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Alison Taylor on relationships: The morning after is like the witching

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Alison Taylor on relationships: 'I love a good friendship-flirt'

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