Anne and Ben met for the first time in church. As a worker in one of the contemporary churches in the country, she knew that she stood a good chance of finding the man of her dreams in the right ‘fold’, which she believed the church was.

Marriage is an institution ordained by the Almighty God. It is such that a man leaves his father and mother’s house and the woman does the same thing too. They start a unit together excluding everyone. The institution is built on trust and commitment. And it terminates when one party dies.

I have been out of the University for ten years without a job. Getting a job became a big deal in those years. Every advertisement I saw on the papers demanded for five years working experience.

It is a fact that women are like flowers that withers at night time. A man on the other hand can be liken to wine, he gets better by the season and best when it is old. No wonder, the wine is best served when it is old.

I have being married for ten years today and the union has being blessed with four children. I am crazy about my husband and as for my children, they make my heart beats.

My name is Elizabeth; I am the only girl in the midst of seven boys. That alone prepared me for life. But I grew to became what could be called a guy or a tom-boy

Janet and I have being courting for almost nine months now. We dated for about two years before we started making plans for marriage. And in those two years and nine months, we made love like every other couple without protection. We started attending this marriage counseling class at my fiancée’s renowned church and we were told to know our HIV status, Janet did hers before I even thought of mine.

I was at the verge of saying ‘I do’ to my college sweet heart in church last year, but I called it off because on my wedding’s eve I caught my best friend in bed with my fiancé.

I met Emeka through Esther while we were still in the University. Esther lived in the same [...]

I grew up in a home bonded with love and unity, l have this wonderful mother who doesn’t play with me or my siblings. In fact, the outsider in our home nearly was dad because he was always traveling and keeping night out with friends and each time he comes home, we always teased him with it. So, that’s how the story goes in our home.

What have I done to deserve this kind of behaviour? Is Mary, my wife possessed? Don’t I satisfy her in bed the way a husband should? Why didn’t she tell me she is not happy or is it about her past? How could a woman derive pleasure out of sleeping with another woman? These were the thoughts running through my mind as I lay down in my hotel room that evening.

It’s been twenty years since I last heard the heart broken story of my run – away biological father, somehow my mother had passed the stag of talking about it. I was told by her that I was still in the womb when he ran away from his responsibility

As I speak, I feel like my whole world and life has crumbled before me! I know l must be in a nightmare and when l wake up, it will just be a dream. This cannot happen in real life to me. Why? Where did I go wrong? How did I fail as a mother and a wife? My husband in bed with my daughter.

Marriage is the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized by the law

Peter and I were born on the same day and practically at the same time, yes that makes us Twins! Twins whose resemblance is so incredible that seeing us together was like looking at one’s self in the mirror. It was so bad that even our own Parents and Siblings could not tell us apart while we were growing up. We dressed up in the same clothes and disturbed their peace of mind with stunts and games that only us or any other identical Twins can pull.

Emeka hails from a family where decency is the order of the day. He grew up listening to his mum talk about the Almighty God and His manifold blessings. His mother also used to make references to hell, damnation and heaven a place for the righteous.