I’m almost forty. I am not married but I have a boyfriend. We’ve been together for almost two years now, and we are currently living together under my roof. He has been unemployed half the time we’ve been dating so he doesn’t contribute financially to our household. I am the sole provider of our home. Food, groceries, toiletries, utility bills, name it. Everything that we need at home, I bear the cost. This doesn’t make me happy. Apart from that, I am not okay with certain things he does. It’s actually more like, things he doesn’t do. This guy is…
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Meeting good men in Nigeria is close to impossible. I remember when I was a little girl, all I wanted was to be swept away by my own prince charming. It didn’t happen until I turned twenty-three. I met this guy, Isaac. He was three years older than me. Isaac was my first love, and I very much intended to make him my first sexual partner. However, we had our fair share of problems that usually got in the way. For instance, in the early stages of the relationship we broke up twice and got back together twice. Both breakups…
I saw him as the father I never had. I was working for him but he treated me like his daughter. Whenever we travelled on a work assignment, he treated me like I was his boss. He listened to me. He asked for my opinions before doing anything. He’s not young. He’s as old as my father but he treated my opinion as sacred and came to me for more. He isn’t tech-savvy so I handled his phone, sent his personal emails and responded to his messages. Working relationship turned into a romantic affair. It happened so fast I didn’t…
I Miss My Babies: Woman Says As She Hold and Spend Time With Her Python Around Other Snakes in Bedroom (Video) A Video shared on social media, a traditional healer named Gogo Maweni from Soweto, South Africa, surprised and even scared many people. The video was posted on February 3, and in it, Gogo Maweni was seen holding a very big snake called a python. What made the video even more surprising was that there were other snakes crawling around on her bed. In her message with the video, she called these snakes her “babies” and said she missed them,…
I closed from a Saturday class and was on my way home when a man called from behind. We were four girls walking together, so all of us turned back to look at the one doing the calling. He pointed at me, “The girl in jeans, yeah please come.” I was young. Only twelve or thirteen. I’d been told to respect the elderly so I told my friends, “Please don’t leave me. I’ll be back right now.” I thought he was going to ask something about my school or he was going to send me to get him something. When…
I was with Musa for eight years. He was my entire world. I, on the other hand, was a continent in his world. I am assigning myself a big chunk like a continent because what we had was deep and meaningful. He cared about me. I knew that. However, he didn’t love me enough to stick with only me. He had other girls on the side. Lots of them. He is handsome so the women naturally flock to him like bees to flowers. Musa didn’t have much but he knew how to make me feel loved and desired. That’s why…
I am a man in my late thirties. I am married, and I have two children. My first child is seventeen, I had him before I met my wife. So he is currently living with his mother, who is my ex-girlfriend. My second child is five, my wife and I had him seven years after we got married. Before we got married, my wife and I dated for three years. During that period she never did my laundry. I am the one who would wash my clothes and wash hers too. Sometimes her dirty clothes would be lying in my…
A man notices a little girl waving at him from a mysterious house where no one is supposed to be living and decides to find out who she is. Tim Jenkins had one of the most unappreciated and necessary jobs in the world: he took away the garbage. Every morning, long before dawn, he and his colleague would drive around the town and take away the refuse the inhabitants had collected the previous day. No one ever saw them, or at least, no one except for one little girl. Every morning, Tim would get off the garbage truck in front…
A husband abandoned his wife and kids shortly after an accident, but a few years later, he ran into her in a park. The former couple now had new lives, and the husband felt bad seeing his ex-wife with another man. Amelia Raymonds was a very pretty girl who had it great from her childhood. She was from a middle-class family, and they cherished formal education. While growing up, she excelled in class, which made her family proud. Things were not bad for the straight A-student as a senior high school student or college student. She had a charming personality…
A cafe owner named Henry decided to do a little experiment to see who his true friends were. In the end, he was surprised to find out that everyone he knew ignored him except for a poor man who offered him help. Henry Luz was a wealthy owner of a crowd-favorite Spanish cafe. It was a family business that he put up in his neighborhood. The cafe made sure to pay homage to his Spanish heritage, as his father was an immigrant who moved to the US decades back to live the “American Dream.” The cafe featured authentic Spanish dishes…