Relationships

Biodun had confidence that she had her man right where she wanted him to be: in her total control. ‘At this point, no one can take him from me, not even Jezebel herself ’, she must have thought to herself. The wedding bell was already ringing very loud, it just...

I was nursing a wounded heart when Eric came along. I didn’t give him attention but he was insistent. He called me every day and sent me a message each day and night until one day I asked him, “So tell me, what do you really want from me?” He...

It started when I was at the university. I think in my third year. There was this laundry guy who came to the hall to collect people’s dirty laundry. He’ll then take them away to their laundry, wash, iron and return them to get paid. He would be walking down the...

It all happened when I met this handsome and noble guy at our hostel one hot afternoon in 2013. He was lost and needed directions so I helped him out. That is how I came to know his name, Enoch. We exchanged numbers that day and started talking after he...

I had my first boyfriend when I was seventeen. The guy was good to me but deep down I didn’t feel right being with him. I realized that I would be wasting his time if I continued to be with him, so I let him go. After him, I tried...

Ralph, you can't do that! I can do anything, but this business was open with the money that I got from the sale of my apartment. You can't prove that. Do you have the money to hire lawyers? I don't understand what's going on here. We're husband and wife, after...

Mother and daughter were sitting in the kitchen in the evening, drinking tea. It was a colleague's birthday, and Diana had brought home a couple of cakes from the party. Bria, her five-year-old daughter, for some reason, was not eating and was picking at her cake with her spoon. Lately,...

"Communication is a key aspect in any relationship. It can save a couple from a lot of heartache in unneeded situations. This woman thought that her husband was having an affair with her cousin, but the truth was very different. Estella and Armando were a couple that many find quite...

Our marriage is only nine months old. We dated for four years before finally getting married. During those four years of dating, he was very interested in intimacy. He desired it, and I had no reason to refuse him, so I willingly engaged in it whenever he wanted. While I...

Moses was posted to my school for his National Service in 2014. I was eighteen and in SH$2 while he was twenty-nine. The first time he entered my classroom he walked up to me and asked, “What is your name?” Itold him my name and he said, “That’s my mother’s...

I am a man in my late thirties. I am married, and I have two children. My first child is seventeen, I had him before I met my wife. So he is currently living with his mother, who is my ex-girlfriend. My second child is five, my wife and I...

There’s a way you know she’s the one when you meet her. Every man knows that. Every man knows who is the one. If you’re not the one, you can squeeze water from the stone to prove your might but he won’t treat you like he would treat the one....

I didn’t want to stay home after my national service so a month before national service ends, I started sending CVs around looking for a job. I will wake up in the morning, and move from office to office carrying nothing but a file full of CVs to distribute. Some...

Maybe, it’s because of the work I do and how he met me. Eric had no trust for me. I didn’t cheat. I didn’t entertain men, and I didn’t stay on my phone late but this man found reasons not to trust me. I work in a hotel where he...

My husband travelled to work in another town for just three months and came home with a baby. Well, the baby didn’t follow him home but after he returned from that trip, a lot of things changed about him. The first change I noticed was the number of hours he...

He reached out to me on Facebook and I ignored him. Later that day, he sent a lengthy text explaining why he was reaching out to me. His reason was friendship. When someone who’s a friend on Facebook asks for another form of friendship, it usually doesn’t end well so...