“It has reached a point where I feel too disgusting to get undressed in front of my husband. It has resulted in slowing down our life (in the other room)”

SHOULD the romance in a marriage stop after the birth of a few kids?  Forget slaving to put food on the table, pay the rent and put a substantial sum of money aside for the kids’ education.  The question is … ‘MOT,’ just as often as you do that priced car(s) of yours?  What brought […]

By Bunmi Sofola The hope of every mother is for her eldest child to leave the nest to start university – she also dreads the day it happens,” says Mudia, 51, an executive director of a stock broking firm”. So came the day when I hugged my 20-year-old Matilda goodbye in front of her new […]

SOME years back, I once asked an old friend how it felt like being jilted at age fortyish. She’s actually started making wedding plans when loverboy suddenly got married to a girl much younger than she was. She was so devastated she hid from her friends, refusing to even discuss her plight. “No different from […]

By Bunmi Sofola It is believed the thunder seldom strikes twice at a spot but an adage warned that once you’ve witnesses its horror, you would show Shango (the god of thunder) more reverence.  Anyone who has been through the rigours of divorce, battered, bruised and raw, will agree that it is a painfully traumatic […]