Escapades of a typical ‘area father!’
By Bunmi Sofola As soon as Terry walked into his lavishly furnished home at his usual time of 8p.m. or thereabout, his wife was waiting for him. His best food was kept hot in the food warmer, his favourite bottle of wine nesting in the fridge. This was late last year when Covid-19 was virtually unheard […]
Failed marriages: When you couldn’t fix the hand writing on the wall!
Edith and Seyi wee introduced by mutual friends about 15 years ago. Within two years, they were married. And within the next seven years, Edith had given birth to four children – three boys and a girl.
He blamed his father-in-law for raising a spoilt brat
Patience and her husband had been married for five years when they moved into a posh bungalow on a better side of Lagos.
When last did you rape your wife!?
He’d spent their married life gradually dominating and subtly bullying her, up to the point of marital rape in an effort to get her pregnant after her first child by him was barely one year old.
Why fathers should stop trying to be their son’s best friend!
Some few weeks back, I was talking to the father of a teenage boy who was despairing that his son insisted on putting his play-station above homework, chores and even sleep. He asked, with a defeated shrug:
Would you steal from your husband?
Ego walked into her matrimonial home and stood gob-smacked as she watched her husband, Kayode, knee-deep in plastic packaging and out emerged a spanking new car stereo. He’d just bought himself a tokunbo car they could ill-afford. “What do you think?”, he beamed with pride, ignoring the scowl on his wife’s face.
