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Searching for love?

t was a birthday bash WaIter was most reluctant to attend. Anthony, a friend in the security wing of the office he moonlighted for in London was having a party for his live-in partner. WaIter had known both of them for a couple of years, but was really tired joggling two jobs.

unty Ireti’s relationship with her husband was already tainted with a damning secret as she was building a house without his knowledge. Then she met Branco, the man who would take her to the brink of death. In the first part of this story which began last week, Ireti was swept off her feet by the dashing younger man into an adulterous affair.

I will soon be 50 and a lot of my friends keep on giving conflicting meanings of the menopause. My period is now irregular and I suspect I must be starting menopause. My husband has insisted I should let him know when I start as he would not want to make love to me then because traditional chiefs from his village are not expected to sleep with menopausal women. I don’t intend to tell him when I eventually get to that stage but what exactly do I expect?