Relationships

Usually, I give people three strikes before I decide I am done with them. It doesn’t matter who you are or how much you mean to me, when it gets to strike three, I am done. And don’t think I am an intolerant person who goes about cutting people out...

I started wearing them just to fill up the spaces. I have tiny breasts. I would wear some kind of dress and my chest would be flat as if I didn’t have lemons on my chest. What is a woman without her lemons? I would walk through life without my...

In all my life, and in all my relationship experiences, I have only been attracted to one man at a time. I have heard some girls share stories about having crushes on other men while they are in a committed relationship. A married friend even confided in me once, “Girl,...

We dated for four years. She wasn’t a bad person. She was a good person who made bad decisions. For instance, when our love was new and blossoming, she told me about how her ex was pestering her. I told her, “Stop talking to him. Block him where he can...

Although I was in love with him, I didn’t know if we were going to have a future together. If our love was a romance novel, it would be themed close proximity. We are one of those unlikely matches that formed because we were in the same training camp. You...

A husband came back from a long day’s work one evening and proceeded to sit in his favorite spot on the sofa and watch a football game. He noticed his wife trying to soothe their crying son while their daughter who was two years old, ran around the hall making...

My first job was a contract. It ended and they didn’t renew it. They promised to call me when something turns up but they never called. I guess nothing turned up. I stayed home for six months before I had a new job. Just a year after my new job,...

A woman who waited 24 years for a first kiss with her childhood best friend is now engaged to be married to him—after keeping her feelings a secret for over two decades. Kate MacNeil and Paul Damon were tied at the hip when they met as young teens in Williamsburg,...

I moved to Miami over the past year because of work. I was new to the city and probably lonely. I am not talking about the kind of loneliness where you feel alone and eventually get over it. I am talking about the kind that leaves you in a constant...

That racism is still present is a sad, but undeniable fact. But whether or not it will continue growing or will hopefully vanish over time is something that depends on all of us. One mom from Houston, Mississippi, named Heather Boyer is showing us how we should all deal with...

Like any bride-to-be, Jen Atkins was very excited to plan her wedding when suddenly her fiance called it all off. He told her she was eating too much junk food and that she was 'too fat'. This was a turning point for the 26-year-old from England who has since lost...

Whenever we face difficulties in life, we feel the urge to share our fears and struggles with those around us because that way, we know we are not alone. One day, a woman learned that her husband was cheating on her. Her world shattered into a million pieces and she...

Sometimes, the world we live in is a sad, sad place because everything seems to be about the way people look on the outside and not many care if the person’s character is worth all the praise. It is mainly because of magazines, TV commercials, and most recently social media...

I was in my friend’s hostel room studying when her boyfriend came to visit. He was with his best friend. They were both not students like us. They were a little older, had completed school, and were working. They were very chatty that day but I was busy studying so...

The first time I saw Tom, he was with some friends who happened to be my friends too. That day when I saw Tom, I didn’t pay him any attention. I just talked with my friends briefly and walked away.I kept running into Tom everywhere I went. Once, there was...

The first time I saw Diana was one early morning when I was on my way to work. She was standing in front of a house that was close to my workplace. The ease and comfort with which she stood there indicated that she lived there. There was a graceful...