When revenge could be therapeutic!
By Bunmi Sofola HELL might have no furry like a woman scorned, but some have found ways of making the pain more bearable by seeking revenge. When Rele moved in with her boyfriend of 18 months, she was ecstatic. But, I warned that living together seldom lead to marriage. That where it did, the marriage […]
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: “What can I do?” I was afterall an agony aunt. He seemed to believe that as the boy’s […]
Hubby may get away with affairs, but not the wife!
When Morola talks about the end of her marriage, her regret is palpable. She says she still loves her husband and the husband admits: “I still love my wife, but will never get over her being with another man.” Even though he’d cheated twice?! Recent research has shown that cheating occurs in over 40 per […]
When last did you give your wife complete MOT?!
SHOULD the romance in a marriage stop after the birth of a few kids? Forget slaving to put food on the table, pay the rent and put a substantial sum of money aside for the kids’ education. The question is … ‘MOT,’ just as often as you do that priced car(s) of yours? What brought […]
Could your new lover ruin your marriage?
SOME years back, I once asked an old friend how it felt like being jilted at age fortyish. She’s actually started making wedding plans when loverboy suddenly got married to a girl much younger than she was. She was so devastated she hid from her friends, refusing to even discuss her plight. “No different from […]
The cruelest hoax ever – Passing someone else’s child off as mine
Can you make it to be in the house this Friday?”, asked a good friend excitedly. “I’m having a small get-together for my daughter,” he explained. “Your daughter?” I asked curiously, my mind working overtime. He was pushing 70, had only a son who was now happily married. Did he mean a granddaughter, or had […]
Why would you steal from your wife?
“You take careful note next time you see a seeming moron tagging after his wealthy and brilliant wife who earns considerably more than he does and you’ll discover he’s only playing the adage that it takes a wise man to play the fool, so he could lay his greedy hands on her money”, so declared […]
What type of man scams his mum and wife?
It’s often said that you never know a partner until you live together. For almost two years, Deola and Cletus not only courted, they lived in each other’s flats. When Cletus eventually proposed marriage, Deola had no problems whatsoever accepting to be his wife. It was long overdue – both of them being in their […]
How female sexual aggression is driving young men to Viagra!
FOR a man who just turned 30, Joel should be at his most virile. Tall, handsome with a well-paid job, he admits he’s never had any difficulty attracting the opposite sex. His problem is that when he wants to have sex with a woman, he needs up to two Viagra pills to perform. The blue tablets […]
What madness possesses a middle-aged wife to stray!
WHY does a seemingly happily married woman go off the rail? “Well, ‘seemingly’ is the right word if you’re thinking of Labake’s marriage,” snorted Benny, a friend who dropped by to discuss the break-up of Labake’s 24 odd years of marriage. We’d all been class-mates and have kept in touch over the years. Labake had always […]
She did what she had to do to give her kids a better life!
WOULD you do anything to make your kids happy – however sordid you believe such things to be?
