Three years into our marriage, my husband travelled to Canada in search of greener pastures. It was a happy day for our family. Our children were very young then but I was thankful to God for paving a way for the head of our family.I believed it was the kind of breakthrough we needed to turn our lives around. We knew that it was not going to be easy to have him live miles across the ocean but we were determined to make the marriage work. We promised each other that the distance would not kill our love or tear…
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When he was taking me home to meet his mother, he warned me about the mental health situation of his mom. He told me she hadn’t been stable mentally since the demise of her husband. She goes off-key and rants about things I might not know about so I shouldn’t be bothered if that happened. I was worried about her immediately. I asked what they had done about it. He told me they had tried but the woman didn’t take her medications hence the mood swings. The woman I saw didn’t look like who Abbey described to me. This woman…
The other day, a guy shared a story about his girlfriend. He was upset because nobody else wanted his girlfriend. He couldn’t understand why a young woman at her age seemed invisible to other men. Honestly, I can relate to his girlfriend’s experience. I am older than the lady but in my entire life, I have only had one boyfriend. At least when he met her, showed interest in her and took her seriously. I can’t say the same for myself. It isn’t that I don’t meet people, I do. And they see me. They talk to me in hopes…
In 2016 she told me her salary was GHC950. And then two years later, when she got promoted, I asked about her salary and she said, “Oh these people, don’t mind them. They added only Ghc350 to my old salary. Because of her meager salary, I’ve taken up so many responsibilities in the house without complaint. I pay for utilities and pay for food. I pay the fees of our two kids, clothe them, and take care of their medical bills. When my wife sends me a grocery list, she adds sanitary pads. She buys dresses and clothes, comes to…
I need you to advice me on what to do. I have been married for four years. In the first two years, my wife was not working. I was the person footing all the bills in the family, talk about food, house rent, health insurance, basically anything you can think of. I was doing this without complaining. I love my wife so everything I do, I do it with a clean mind and also knowing full well that whatever I do for her, I also do it for myself and my coming children. I give her money even….Read Full Story…
A woman who had expected another routine Sunday with her family finds something unexpected after her instincts push her to look behind the altar.It was just like any other Sunday. Adella made pancakes and eggs for her husband, Shawn, and two kids, after which they prepared for church.The family had developed a routine over the years for Sundays; it began with pancakes for breakfast, followed by the church service, then a visit to the…..Read Full Story Here………….
I was a little girl, ten or eleven when my mother took me to her hometown. It’s a little village somewhere in the central region. When we were in a car going, she talked about how wonderful the village was and how she wished I would grow in the village instead of the city. And how she wished I would grow around the people who truly loved me. I was a girl. I didn’t know so much of what goes on in the world so I didn’t understand a lot of things that she was….Read Full Story Here……….
I did everything I could for my husband but he always seemed to be dissatisfied. One day, I woke up to my husband’s voice in the hall along with a female voice. “How could he?” I thought. And that was the last straw for me.I work at a bank as a project manager and our latest project has been the hardest of all. I often came home late and sometimes, I would work on the weekends. But work is just a slice of my busy life. I have a house and a husband to take care of, and my…..Read Full…
My girlfriend and I met at a mutual friend’s father’s funeral. We went to help our friend say goodbye to his father and we found each other. We started talking at the funeral grounds and from the way she carried herself, I knew I wanted to get to know her more.By then she was in her first year in nursing training college and I worked as a teacher in a secondary school. We had deep conversations about life and the world. I like the way she thinks about….Read Full Story Here…………
For 12 years I believed I was happily married to the most wonderful man in the world, but I only learned who my husband really was after he passed away in a car accident at the age of 36.I was waiting for Greg to come home for dinner when the phone rang. His sobbing assistant told me that Greg was gone. He had been getting into his car when another vehicle had hit him. Greg was gone..I kept saying those words to myself over and over again: Greg is gone, I’m alone. I couldn’t believe it. We were….Read Full Story…