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This was a young lady’s message to me: “My parents’ marriage has been troubled since 2021 when my mum discovered that my dad has another child outside. My dad did not deny anything but things have not been the same between them since then. “He said he had been apologising but my mum kept telling […]
Continue ReadingAbout three months after they were introduced, she said she was pregnant and he was acting funny about it. So, I asked to speak with him. From his response, he was not ready for the “baby phase” of the relationship. I also perceived that he hasn’t even decided if she’s actually the one for him. […]
Continue ReadingWhen my husband came for my hand in marriage, I was only 24 years old and my mother refused to have me married. My mother was working very hard for me to get into the university that year and that’s the reason she gave for refusing his proposal to marry me. But my husband went […]
Continue ReadingNigerians woke up to the story of an attempted suicide by a beautiful woman (going by her pictures that I have seen) the media described as “a Lagos socialite”, some days back. The comment that was subsequently attributed to her fingered her failed marriage as the chief cause of her mental breakdown. A marriage the […]
Continue ReadingI have enough married brothers to conclude that the excesses of most wives – towards in-laws – often start with how wide the man opened his mouth against his people to his wife. A woman who came into your life knowing your people cannot be disrespected never loses sight of that. The average man becomes […]
Continue ReadingA man’s recent message to me read, “My wife is increasingly becoming confrontational with my parents and siblings and when I try to caution her, she would accuse me of not being man enough to protect her. The worst part of all these is that nothing she complains about them is concrete enough to warrant […]
Continue ReadingWhen a popular Nollywood actor died some weeks back, not a few sentimental tales followed the circumstances of his marital life. From claims of a mean spouse, who kept their children from him – even when he was on deathbed – to counterclaims of him being a deadbeat dad and an unworthy spouse of a […]
Continue ReadingThe gory image that was sent to me a few days back was that of a stab victim. But what drew my ire was the multitude of people that surrounded the victim, yet it didn’t occur to any of them to make an effort or mobilise for support to rush him to a hospital. In […]
Continue ReadingI met the husband first. He was recommended (as a good tailor) by the market women that sold some fabrics to me. Both husband and wife were into dressmaking! In the course of “getting to know ourselves more”, he introduced me to his wife and even showed me her shop. The strongest image of them […]
Continue ReadingLess than a week after public acrimony, a Nollywood actor and his wife made a show of ‘all is now well.’ But in an interview that he granted to the media afterwards, the actor made it clear that he still would not eat his wife’s food. Part of the problem of most troubled marriages is […]
Continue ReadingThe lady that makes my hair told me an interesting story yesterday. She said when she relocated to this town, she could only afford accommodation in a shanty. A few blocks from where they lived was also the house of a rich man, who lived abroad, although he visited home a couple of times yearly. […]
Continue ReadingThis was an experience that a man narrated to me, recently: How does a woman wake up one morning to put a marriage of over 14 years behind her? Because that was exactly what happened! I thought my wife was joking the morning she told me that she was quitting our marriage. I was so […]
Continue ReadingHere’s an experience that a lady shared with me not long ago. “I have lived without penetrative sex for over five years and it’s not easy. “I am just 47 years old! “My husband is suffering from diabetes and it has knocked ‘his engine’ completely. “It cannot even stand. “We were advised to learn how […]
Continue ReadingA voice note made the rounds on social media recently. It allegedly belonged to a married politician. The interesting thing about the voice note is the contents. It was a conversation that a man in love thought he was having with a beloved, unknown to him he was being recorded. When things went awry in […]
Continue ReadingI caught up with a relation recently. It was a disturbed man that I was talking to all through our time together. He’s been having issues with his wife. He attributes the sudden change in her attitude to the rich brother (overseas) whose word is LAW in his household. He said that nothing he brings […]
Continue ReadingOne ugly reality constantly being seen is men who run with their excesses, often to the detriment of all they should hold dear. A major monster that is tormenting today’s marriages is the avalanche of unwholesome views all over the social media, which are finding their way to the hearts of married women. The attitude […]
Continue ReadingWhen an unpleasant marital issue trends, opinions on marriage, especially in social media, begin to fly. Currently, women are being advised to not love, lift fingers or struggle with a man, lest she ends up used. Where such a mindset perpetuates, is that still a marriage? Would you be okay to receive the same energy […]
Continue ReadingI am tempted to conclude that it’s another spirit that enters most Igbo men when this ‘male child’ sentiment is pushing them. A man could have a home filled with wonderful daughters who adore him and he won’t ‘see’ them, yet in old age, it’s these daughters that would be losing sleep over his welfare. […]
Continue ReadingIn the message that a lady sent to me recently, she said, “My last baby was a girl, like the rest. I would later hear that when my father went to see my husband, who refused to visit the baby and I at the clinic, he cried his eyes out. Over what? We had a […]
Continue ReadingIn sharing his experience with me, he wrote, “My mother died over seven years ago but what died with her was my marriage of 12 years. My ex-wife is from a rich family and she never failed to make the class disparity between her and my people obvious. She carried on as if the presence […]
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