Opinion

Eithne Shortall: Here is my postcard from a ‘durable relationship’

When you go to the polling booths on Friday, we are exactly the kind of monogamous, long-term but unmarried family you’ll be voting about

Eithne Shortall: ‘We constructed Ikea bunk beds last Sunday, complete with one significant do-over and a splintered slat and still we were able to go out for dinner as family afterwards, still talking. If that’s not the definition of durable, I don’t know what is’

Greetings from a durable relationship. I’m afraid it’s not as exciting as some have made out. No spicy throuple or internationally-recognised polygamy here. Just a very boring heterosexual couple with two kids, a house and a washing basket that never seems to reach empty. We’re the same as most of our friends, except that we never had the Big Day Out and the trip to the registry office for the piece of paper that legitimises ...