‘I regret snatching my friend’s husband’ — Reader
By Bunmi Sofola A Reader wrote: I have followed your columns way back from your Punch days when I was in the university. Most of the times, your articles are so down-to-earth they speak to me – as if you are writing about me. In one of the editions of Sunday Vanguard a few months back, […]
Help, my boyfriend is too suspicious
I have been dating a guy for over two years. Everything is fine except that my boyfriend is very possessive, suspicious and jealous. I have never cheated on him and have no cause to do so. I love him and hold him in high regards but his jealousy and suspicion is killing me. He doesn’t want me to have friends or mix up with other people.
From my mailbox: Is polygamy really bad?
Hi! The issue of polygamy, that arrangement that allows a man marry more than one wife, needs no introduction especially in our part of the world. Though this practice seems no longer fashionable, due largely to cultural and religious shift, factors against it have not been overwhelming enough to cause a radical and total change of general perception.
He’s too suspicious
I have been dating a guy for over two years. Everything is fine except that my boyfriend is very possessive, suspicious and jealous. I have never cheated on him and have no cause to do so. I love him and hold him in high regards but his jealousy and suspicion is killing me. He doesn’t want me to have friends or mix up with other people.
Sustaining a marriage more important than getting married – Ogunmekan
By Ebele Orakpo Marriage, we are told, is for better or for worse but in recent times, it has been redefined as ‘for better we stay, for worse we part.’ Today, marriages pack up for the flimsiest of excuses. ‘Oh, he presses the toothpaste in the middle instead of the end.’ He doesn’t arrange his […]
I resent being the breadwinner, says Joke
My husband and I have a two year-old daughter but he is a rotten husband and father.
He lost his job a year ago but couldn’t be bothered to find another one.
He sleeps late whilst I go to work and won’t allow me to see my friends.
