For the past two weeks, I’ve been sharing a room with my mom. We sleep in the same bed, and my main responsibility is to make sure she’s okay and doesn’t harm herself. She doesn’t sleep much, sometimes pretending to sleep, but I can tell she’s not really asleep. When she’s asleep, she snores softly. But when she’s pretending, she tosses and turns. Some nights, she quietly leaves the room and cries in the hallway. I notice her leaving, but I don’t follow because there’s nothing in the hallway she could use to…..Read Full Story Here…..
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Leila’s story finally gave me the courage to talk about my own. I’m not the only one dealing with demons, I realized. I’m not alone in this battle and that should have brought warmth to my heart but no. This isn’t something to be proud of no matter how many people you know who are going through the same battle. Leila is married. I’m not married. Leila’s husband brought the curse into their home. Mine is a little bit different and I will talk about it soon. One common thing I share with the other girl in Leila’s story is…
I sit here, tears streaming down my face, I can’t help but wonder how life has dealt me such a cruel hand. My name is Nneoma(Image not same as the story sharer), and I’m a single mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a world that seems determined to crush me. It all began when my husband, the father of my children, abandoned us without warning. No explanation, no goodbye, just a trail of debt and broken promises. I was left to pick up the pieces, to provide for our children alone. But fate had other plans. My…
It started on Facebook. Hello, hi, how are you and what have you been doing today? Those were the things we usually talked about. We didn’t cross those lines until he started getting interested in my life. When we got to that point. he was always in my dm, from morning till evening. I enjoyed talking to him because he always had something funny to say. One day he asked for my number and I gave it to him. There was nothing to it. I felt we’d talked for that long and knew each other so there was nothing wrong…
I consider myself an orphan with parents, even though they are still alive. At this stage of my life, I should be independent, but unfortunately, I’m not. Under normal circumstances, I would expect support from my family, but that’s not the case. My father, who would have done anything for me, is sick, and my mother, who runs our household, treats me like a rival for some reason. I remember a time when I couldn’t afford sanitary pads, which cost GHC8. I asked my mother for help, but she simply said she didn’t have the money, even though she earns…
I had my first boyfriend when I was seventeen. The guy was good to me but deep down I didn’t feel right being with him. I realized that I would be wasting his time if I continued to be with him, so I let him go. After him, I tried dating a few others but it never felt right with any of them either. The longest I had been with anyone was three months. The only physical thing that happened with them was kissing. That’s because I had made a vow to God that I would keep my virginity until…
Man Forbids Wife to Enter Old RoomWhen they moved into his childhood home, Mark forbade his wife, Amelia, from entering the old room at the end of the hallway. But one night, she heard something strange and decided to investigate later when Mark was not home. However, he caught her and revealed the truth. Mark grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, but he moved to New York for university and met Amelia during his senior year. They fell in love, got married, and worked in the city for several years. But Mark didn’t tell her that he owned his childhood home…
I met a man in my hometown. His name is Paapa. We were introduced in January. On Vals’ day that same year, he proposed. It took me three days to say yes to him. In August that same year, he came home to perform the knocking rite. In November, we got married. Proposal. Acceptance. Knocking rite. Traditional wedding. White wedding. All happened within nine months of our meeting. We never had sex until marriage. That’s what fairy tales are made of right? They called me lucky. I counted myself as blessed. I became the standard among my friends. I was…
Sometimes in life, there are such moments when complete despair sets in. You do not know what to do; you have to proceed. Such a period came in Sandra’s life at the end of the Fall. Her mother became seriously ill, and the girl stayed at her mother’s bedside for days and nights, caring for her as well as she could. Treatments required a large sum of money, and though her father was a military man, his salary was still insufficient for food and medicine. The medical expenses were such that the family could barely survive. But no one ever…
I was unemployed for six months after my national service. It was frustrating but I channelled it into relentlessly applying for jobs. When I finally received a job offer, my joy knew no bounds. It didn’t matter to me that the job was in another town, and I would have to move away from home. I was fine with it, knowing that sooner or later, I would have to fly out of my parents’ nest. While I was happy about the opportunity, I understood that I was a young girl, and the world is full of sharp-teethed predators who wouldn’t…