It started with a pet name. She asked that I give her a pet name and ensure I call her by that pet name all the time. She’s my wife but she didn’t want me to call her sweetheart, darling or sweetie pie. She said those names were archaic. I couldn’t think of any so she picked one for herself and asked me to call her by that. She doesn’t initiate sex. She says it’s not a woman’s duty to initiate. I always do but before she would agree to do it with me, I have to pamper her. She…
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He ticked all my boxes. He was exactly everything I wanted in a man. I looked at all his amazing qualities and said, “Finally, I have met the man I want to spend the rest of my life with.” Our connection was beautiful. I was so excited about the kind of intimacy we shared that I did not pay attention to physical attraction. What I mean is, that I did not stop to consider whether or not I felt aroused by him. We courted for ten months and got married in the eleventh month. Before we tied the knot, we…
She was living in the neighborhood of a house I rented an apartment in last year. I only used to see her around the house. We didn’t talk much except for the occasional small talk. Stuff like, “Hello, how are you?” Or “Hi, where have you been? I haven’t seen you in so long. Did you travel?” Our conversations only stayed on the surface but she always had a warm and bubbly demeanor. Whether I talked to her on a rainy day or on a sunny day, she spoke with the freeness of a two-year-old. Her energy was so pure…
We did our national service at the same hospital. I saw her around the facility quite often but we were not on the same schedule so we were not friends. She was just someone I occasionally said hello to. After we finished our national service I didn’t even think much about her, until she was posted to work as a midwife at a clinic I was working at. I had been there for a few months before she came. Because I knew her already, it was easier to be her friend this time around. I helped her settle into the…
I went to a church event and met Pastor. He’s not a pastor as in pastor but he’s Pastor. I mean Pastor is his name. When I asked why he was called pastor he told me, “Because I wanted to become a pastor when I was young.” He didn’t become a pastor but he wanted to become my boyfriend. I tried to withdraw from him because I had a boyfriend. He persisted until he got me to a point where he proposed. “I have a boyfriend, I won’t lie to you. Just that things are not as smooth as I…
I remember a few weeks after I accepted Stanley’s proposal, Yaw came along. I didn’t know him from anywhere. He came to the shop one day and said he liked me. I looked at him and wondered what could give him the confidence to say that. I told him, “No, you can’t just like somebody like that. You just saw me. Do you even know my name?” He might have picked the discomfort in my voice so he said, “No, I didn’t mean to upset you. I couldn’t hold it. Immediately I saw you I felt this kind of warmth…
I have always had a simple dream for my life when I was growing up. Whenever our class teachers asked, “What do you want to be in future?” I would answer eagerly, “I want to be a nurse.” See? How hard can it be to achieve this dream? All I had to do was study hard and go to nursing school, then I would become a nurse. This was how I envisioned it all to go. I knew that I would need good grades to make it to nursing school. And to get those grades I must avoid all distractions.…
I’m always late for work. There’s a name they call me. They don’t say it in front of me but behind me. I know the sound but I don’t get to hear the word. When they see me coming to work, they speak among themselves and laugh. I don’t blame them. I deserve it. If you invite me to a wedding, I will be late. If you invite me to your baby’s christening, I’ll be late. I’m late for church. I’m late for everything because of my husband. We fought about it on several occasions until I realized that he…
I found her at a workshop and fell in love with her. Her eloquence and poise had the best of me so I went to her after the first session and introduced myself to her; ”I liked the way you spoke. You sounded like you have more insight than the resource persons.” She smiled shyly and introduced herself to me too. From that day, we became friends who talked on the phone for several hours a day. She didn’t live anywhere closer to me but her office was a little bit closer to where I lived. One evening after work…
The day I met Chief I was in a very difficult financial situation. I was walking home from work while pondering over how I was going to solve my problem. I even got a headache as a result of it. While I was deep in my thought, a 2019 land cruiser stopped by me. I saw the car and the man behind the wheel, and panicked. The man driving the car introduced himself as Chief. He spoke with a Nigerian accent which terrified me more. I didn’t say anything to him. I just started walking fast so I could get…