Last year, my life took a terrible turn, both financially and in love. It has been over six months, and I am nowhere close to healing. Honestly, I do not know if I ever truly will. My work takes me from place to place, and that is how I met her. I met Yayra in…
Last year, my life took a terrible turn, both financially and in love. It has been over six months, and I am nowhere close to healing. Honestly, I do not know if I ever truly will. My work takes me from place to place, and that is how I met her. I met Yayra in…
When we were just lovers, I caught him cheating on me with a white lady. It wasn’t hearsay; it was something I found out with my own eyes. I had gone to his place to visit when I realized his door was locked, but there was music playing in the room. I knocked and knocked,…
My girlfriend lives with me because she hit a hard patch with her rent. She lost her job along the line and for a whole year she didn’t have a job. I was the one taking care of her until her rent expired. By then, she had gotten a job, but there were no savings…
My marriage became very boring and routine, and the sad thing was, both of us did nothing to bring a spark to the marriage. I did something from the beginning. I tried to bring back some of the things we did while we were dating, but anytime I suggested an outing or talked about fun…
He came to my mother’s shop one evening to buy something, and while I attended to him we had a good conversation. When he returned the next day we talked again, and that was how he took my number. Something so ordinary became the beginning of a friendship. We started talking every day. He would…
I dated George, now my husband, for four years and he wasn’t talking about marriage. Anytime I asked what we were doing with our lives, he pretended he didn’t know what I meant. So I initiated the conversation. I told him I wanted marriage and wanted to know when he would be ready. He told…
When I moved in here, she was one of the sweetest people who proved to me that I wasn’t going to have any problem living in this compound. But now, she isn’t speaking to me anymore. Every time she sees me, she wears a very big frown. Her face folds into all kinds of shapes….
We fought about his ex every day. It was either he was texting her or he was with her at certain places. Mutual friends saw it and told me about it. He denied everything and called them rumors until I saw it with my own eyes through his phone and the things they were talking…
I got a new job in Accra and had only a few weeks to get accommodation. I didn’t know the terrain very well, so I was told to get an agent. I didn’t have the money for that, so I resorted to telling my new colleagues and people I knew to help me get a…