My dad is not coming to my wedding, and that’s fine. I can always live with that, but the fact that he’s angry at me and is threatening me emotionally is what I can’t stand. So on the phone, I told him, “I’m not choosing my stepdad over you. I’m only trying to respect the…
I was home when my girlfriend came to tell me her mom’s pastor was praying over passports. He only does that once a year, and every passport he has prayed over ends up traveling abroad before the next year when he does it again. FOLLOW US ON WHATSAPP CHANNEL TO RECEIVE ALL STORIES IN YOUR…
I was twenty-three years old when my girlfriend then, Aku, called and said there was trouble. “You and I need to prepare our graves because we are dead,” she said. My heart stopped beating for a while. Before I could ask what we were dead for, she said she was pregnant. “My dad would slaughter…
Our relationship was already falling apart when she got pregnant. That was why I asked her to terminate it. I asked her what she wanted to do first because I did not want it to feel like I was making decisions over her body. She looked at me and said, “You decide.” Truthfully, if things…
When my sister-in-law gave birth to her first child, she refused to breastfeed the baby. No matter how much the baby cried, no matter how she licked her lips the way babies do when they want breast milk, she would quickly carry infant formula and make milk instead. My mother had to force her to…
My girlfriend had a job that paid her pennies. She was always complaining, and I complained too. I told her to hold on while she looked for a better job. To make life easier for her, I decided I would pay her transportation cost for the month and also give her money for lunch. So…
When we started talking, I didn’t know she had a child. We talked for a while, emotions developed, and words were formed. Just before I was about to propose, she told me she had a son. “Just so you don’t feel lied to or led on, I have a six-year-old son,” she said. FOLLOW US…
When my stepsister returns from school, she usually stays with me. Aba has grown into a very curvy young woman, and I just wanted to keep an eye on her. My stepfather has grown weak over the years, so he gave his approval easily. The arrangement was simple. She would sleep in the living room…
When I moved to the USA to stay with my parents, I was mostly left alone with the nanny. Not that my parents were absent, not at all. They had to go to work, and because of that they needed someone at home with me. At age 12, they finally found a nanny they both…
I was working on a contract basis for a company that paid really well. I spent my working days trying so hard for them to make me permanent, but no matter how hard I tried, they let me go when the time came. I was devastated. The chest I could cry on was the chest…