Husbands who believe they’re goaded into being violent!
By Bunmi Sofola WILL spousal violence ever go away? Two readers sent in their views recently. One is a married mother of three and the other is a bewildered husband who’s been physically and mentally abused by his wife. “My husband and I were together for nearly ten years,” wrote Ibi, “and he was a […]
My step-brother wants us to date, is it right?
My mother re-married over six years ago and we moved into my step-father’s house. He has three children and I’ve always found his eldest child good-looking. He is in the university and I’m at the nursing school. I’m 23 and he’s two years older.
Do you know whose phones your teenage daughter is sending her nude pictures?
After the widely published experience of Cynthia in the hands of her facebook predators about two years ago which eventually led to her gruesome death in an hotel room thousands of miles from her residence., a lot of shocking facts have emerged about the atrocities people commit online. In a devastating book released about a year ago, Choe Combi highlighted cases of teenagers who she interviewed for her book , who are caught in the webs of internet usage gone wild.
The time will come when all you’ll have are memories!
WHATEVER your view on sex is, the fact remains it’s recently been stripped of its cloak and dagger mystery. Where men once bragged of the number of notches on their bed-posts, women now don’t see sex as a ‘chop and wipe mouth’ phenomenon. They see it as of right – they want it, if it’s available, they take as much as they want. No guilt. Just emotional satisfaction. Ini and I were at Lilians recently and, naturally the banter skirted around sex. Lilian’s cousin Betty’s ‘problem’ came up for serious consideration. According to Lilian, Betty believes her body was made for sex!
Marriage matters; really?
It’s a known fact that more and more couples live together yet never marry, often in partnerships that dissolve with depressing speed and regularity. These types of couples are called Rainbow families, consisting of a mother and an array of children fathered by different men.
Nigeria’s self-styled open marriages (2)
Due to my colleague’s resolve to keep his secondmarriage at all cost, his new wife may found permission to help herself out with some extra toppings of hard muscles. According to him, he’d since found out that such “sh.t happens” all the time and many of those who condemn things publicly, often embrace same when the table turns to them. But my friend’s uncle’s wife was not so lucky. She did not only fail to get away with adulterous acts, but paid gravely for it. I find the story rather heart breaking whenever it crosses my mind and it taught me a few lessons about relationships.
