I recently found out, through a colleague in his office, that my husband of almost 20 years has been sleeping with prostitutes. according to this colleague, some of them call at the office and he takes time off to take them to motels.

Just when you thought you’d heard all there is to hear on the dating scene, another rib cracking tale rears its interesting head! I recently fulfilled a promise to call on an old acquaintance in his office and was amused to find him virtually breathing fire from his nostrils when I was finally ushered into his office by his secretary. That was after a bewildered lady had beaten a hasty retreat from his office. Henry is the projects director of a manufacturing company. The head office consisted of a sky scrapper and he was on the 10th floor.

Going to a wedding? Then you may find yourself paying dearly for it. As the average price of what was once a simple ceremony soars to millions of Naira, shameless brides are turning to ever-more greedy tactics to make guests shell out for the privilege of coming to their nuptials.

IT’S supposed to be a romantic scene.
Perhaps you are in a restaurant or a club, or just chilling out in front of the telly. Your partner reaches for you, you gaze into his eyes. Then nothing. At that moment, completely undeniably, you realize you’re no longer in love. “I was totally appalled when it happened to me,” said Venessa, 31, and a journalist. “I stared at Biyi, my lover of four years, and saw a stranger. Then I made an excuse and left the room. I just couldn’t face what was playing out in front of me. I went to bed early, convinced everything would be fine, but in the morning, I felt the same. Only Biyi was his usual cheerful self.

How much can you trust your spouse with your friend? The more I think about it, the more confused and confounded I get. Many things have changed about love, relationship and marriage from the way we grew up to know it. In fact, the basic rules guiding interpersonal relationship anywhere in our society seems to have disappeared.

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Believe it or not, I am a virgin at the age of 25. My problem now is that my boss and her daughter are both trying to get me into bed. After I finished at the law school, my mum arranged for me to work in her friend’s chambers to gain experience. Sadly, my mother recently lost her battle against breast cancer. She died, leaving me devastated and my boss said if I ever needed anyone to talk to, she would always be there for me.

My mind raced back to one of my many conversations with my dear friend Bella as I listened to this guy’s argument on why his five year old daughter must be circumcised. His poor wife, Aduni, had asked me to help talk to him. Had she known that this would be his decision, she probably would have kept her discovery to herself. That she had caught their little girl playing with her clitoris.

FIDELIS got married late – in his early 40s. Two years into his marriage, he could no longer get an erection. “I’d had problems with my libido in the past”, he confessed, “and by the time I met Lisa, my wife, making love was very infrequent. She was only 23 and I thought that she would be fertile enough to get pregnant with the infrequent time, I could have sex.

A few weeks back, this column looked into the plight of older women who had to opt for abortions when they believed they wouldn’t be able to cope with looking after an additional child. Christopher, 38, an analyst for a consultancy firm and a male reader wondered why male views weren’t considered in the said write-up; afterall, it takes two to get pregnant.