By Candida RONKE is nobody’s wife. She has never been married and doesn’t want to get married. She has always insisted that she wasn’t a wife material. She has her hand into several businesses including ordering items on her label abroad to be sold here in the country.

TODAY’S children are the most pampered. You pay through you nose to give them the best education, pull all the strings you can to get them the job they grudgingly admit they might like only to be faced with the most daunting of tasks – how to kick your seemingly independent ‘child’ out of the family nest he’s been cocooned since birth.

A notable society lady who died of cancer sometime ago perhaps would have lived longer if her man had stuck with her during the grey days. But he did not. Immediately she took ill and the doctors confirmed her illness, the man packed his suitcases and left.

Courtship is the traditional dating period before engagement and marriage. During a courtship couples date to get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement and marriage. Usually courtship is a public affair, done in public and with family approval.

When I eventually had time to talk to Dunni’s mum, she told me he employed Fareedah because she was a go-getter. “She had ways of weeding late payments from difficult customers. I didn’t ask questions as to how she did it so successfully, but your guess is as good as mine. Now she has her claws into my son. She knows how much the business is worth and she’s happy helping him spend the money.

It’s happening everywhere around you but the fact that many people are doing it does not justify the act or do you feel good knowing you are to be blamed for a marriage breaking-up?

John’s marriage to Mary was the most talked about for months. Nothing was spared to ensure that the wedding lived
up to the society ratings of the ‘oil big boy’ as John was called by his friends.

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THE horrors of divorce, once dubbed the modern epidemic, are nothing compared with the nightmare of constantly living with the evidence that the parents who’d painstakingly drummed moral values into you are afterall not infallible. Divorce, though painful is at least cut and dried. The end of a marriage is imminent, children, thank heavens, are resilient and adaptable to change.

I got a mail from a lady who demanded to know the big deal about dating a married man. According to Tosin, the married man is the devil you know who is better than the angel you don’t know. Tosin claimed that on the occasions she dated married men, she did not expect commitment from them because the men knew she was dating them as breadwinners and nothing else.

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Peter and Jane have been married for more than two decades. Although they are still very fond of each other, a certain event that happened on the eve of their 10th anniversary almost tore the couple apart.

Is it justifiable by any standard to succumb to a relationship with a man who is already hooked to another woman? Does it matter that it has become so common and every single lady you know is doing it? Is it justifiable? You have seen homes broken and relationships rubbished for that fact but is it fair to be the one responsible for a broken home? Have you put yourself in the other woman’s shoe? You are doing it now.

“I tried to shut the door in his face, but he went berserk. Booting the front door open, he pushed his way into the flat.’ I love you Melisa’, he wined, ‘and I’m not leaving your house until you admit you love me too’ His eyes were bulging. He looked really demented. If I didn’t get him out of the flat soon, Seun would come back and find out about everything.

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.