According to research, increasingly, it is men, rather than women, who struggle to come to terms with divorce. Divorced men are more likely to become depressed than their married counterpart, are more prone to deep depression and more likely to turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism.

MOST evenings when I came back from work and entered the house through the kitchen door, I was greeted with a long list of household chores still to do,” said Lara a 44 year-old movie producer who confessed the chaos often left her close to tears.  “The house was littered with the detritus of family life-piles of dirty dishes in the kitchen and clothes strewn over the children’s bedroom floors.

TODAY’S men are paying the price for neglecting their health, with more men dying prematurely every year, according to medical reports. But common male health problems can be detected and treated earlier, if not prevented, with better awareness and regular check-ups.

Women going through the menopause often complain they are becoming more forgetful. And an international conference heard recently that there is increasing evidence that women’s concentration levels, memory and ability to carry out tasks drop by as much as 40 percent when they go through the change.

There’s no faster killer of friendship than one friend making a banquet of another friend’s left-over! Angela and Temi’s friendship went way back to their secondary school days. “Even after we went to different universities, our friendship continued,” Temi said. “As luck would have it, thanks to Angela’s dad’s influence, we got posted to the same state for our youth service. Whilst I ended up teaching in a secondary school, Angela worked in a bank.