Baby-hungry single women are the reason some men are having the snip!
By Bunmi Sofola A few months into a fledging relationship, divorcee Donald was in bed with attractive, much younger partner when she whispered a proposal that punctured the mood. It wasn’t so much as actual demand as a loaded question that had Donald reconsidering the future – not only with her, but about his life in […]
‘University turned my daughter into an alcoholic!’
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 […]
Could your new lover ruin your marriage?
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 […]
Wives who fled their matrimonial homes with all material wealth…
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 […]
Fair-weather friends you can do without
By Bunmi Sofola Maggie, a contented mother of three ran into an old classmate three years ago, and her life has never been the same. “I went to the same polytechnic with Nelly,” she recalled “and we were the best of friends. Shortly after college, she travelled abroad and I got married to Supo, a […]
The best way to cover an affair? Get rid of the evidence!
By Bunmi Sofola My dearest”, the letter said. “I will call you my lady because that is what you are. Your breasts, your thighs, the way your eyes seemed to scream across the room, bidding me to seduce you, pulling me erect, drawing me, like moth before the flame, towards fire and abandon – are […]
