By Bunmi Sofola FROM time to time, you run into couples who look so wrong together you wonder what the attraction is.  And, there are couples you see and are convinced their union is ordained from heaven.  But these assumptions could be far-fetched at times.  Take Lisa’s case for instance.  She’s been married for four years […]

By Bunmi Sofola When Ibidun hit the menopause, her erratic behaviour became irritating and unbearable to Peter, her husband.  She was 48 and a mother of four grown-up children.  A normally bubbly woman, she became testy, snarling and crying most of the time.  “Whenever I tried to find out what the matter was, she shoved me […]

Both of them were naked. Sesan was in shock. He leapt from the bed and ran out of the house, running like a man possessed in my towelling robe

By Bunmi Sofola “Less than a year after my brother-in-law’s death, I rang my sister, Beverly and was surprised to hear her giggling down the line”, said Tope, herself widowed at age 48.  “When I asked what was going on, she told me she had a ‘gentleman visitor’.  This was around 11a.m., so I told her […]

By Bunmi Sofola WHEN we were children, there were much stricter boundaries,” recalled Eriwu, a 42-year old mother of two teenage children as we discussed the vast difference of parenting in the past and how today’s parents mono-cuddle their children.  She continued: “Children did not stay up with the adults, or socialise with them, or sleep […]