How to handle the ‘teenage demon’ when it visits your children!
By Bunmi Sofola When Sussie’s son came on his first log vacation from the university a couple of years ago, he came with a handful of friends. In days, they’d eaten Sussie out of home and her stock of lager and liquor had virtually disappeared. But the lad was growing to adulthood, Sussie had reasoned, and […]
He burnt his fingers replacing his menopausal wife with a bombshell!
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 […]
You can have great sex at 40
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
It pays to enjoy being a merry widow!
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 […]
Why you need to make your marriage more important than your children
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 […]
What’s a man’s pride got to do with it when he smells the money?!
By Bunmi Sofola SYLVIA admitted that her parent’s marriage and the stoic way her mummy yielded her position as the first wife to a much younger and ambitious woman prepared her for the way she handled her relationship with men. Her story: ‘When a man suddenly discovered he’s scaled the ladder of success faster than he’d […]
