If the title of this short article has caught your eye, it seems likely that you are in the same boat as many people just now – i.e. caught up in anxiety, worry and conflict in a relationship, and heightened at this time of year.

When I met Judith my life felt like hell. To everyone (except my partner) I was fine, I was still the happy, bubbly person I always had been, I had perfected wearing a mask that much. But on the inside I questioned daily the point of being alive – what was the point of living with this much pain? But why the pain?