My husband had been the one to pay the kids’ school fees. He took them to school himself and brought them back home every evening. His office is close to the school, so he handled everything concerning the kids’ school activities. I would only hear about what went on at their school when the kids…
My husband met me when I was young. I was 19. I knew that I loved him, and I believed our love would survive the test of time. And it did. Wherever he went, I went with him. We barely gave each other breathing space. I roamed with him and returned late at night, and…
I was looking for a place to stay, and he offered to pay my rent. I wanted to know why, and he said he wanted to do it because he liked me. He paid a one-year rent for me. Later, it turned into a relationship. Before we started dating, he told me he had gotten…
My mom doesn’t talk to my wife—actually, she hates her. She hates me too and calls me an embarrassment to my late father. I send her money every month. I do my bit as her eldest child, but nothing I do makes her want to accord me any respect. She respects my younger siblings, both…
I lived close to his mother, who had been living alone since her husband died. I’m in the same church as his mother and usually went to church with her and came back with her. When she needed help with anything, I was the one she called. In the evenings, when I didn’t have anything…
I met him three months ago on Facebook—a Nigerian who comes to Ghana and goes back. When we met, he was in Nigeria. We talked every day. He was a gentleman and also looked like he was well-to-do. He proposed even though we hadn’t met. I liked him, but I wanted to see him physically…
Religiously, my mother-in-law and I don’t align. She believes in unusual things and always wants to push her faith on others. When we were about to get married, she gave my husband a bottle of perfume and asked him to tell me to pour it into my bathing water and bathe with it for seven…
My wedding is supposed to happen three weeks from now, but at this moment, I am bailing out quietly. My boyfriend’s sister is fully on my side. She even suggested that I go through with the wedding and reject him at the altar as a way to get back at him. I won’t lie, the…
We have been talking for two years now. By all accounts, we should have moved past the “talking stage” and into a defined relationship long ago. But, we are stuck. There are a thousand reasons for this, and if I am being honest, one of them is me. When you have been shattered the way…
My wedding should have happened in February this year, but it didn’t. To me, it’s over. I’m no longer going to marry him, but to my family and his family, what we are going through is just a phase. They say I should let it go because we’ve come too far to allow this to…