My mom died last year. On her obituary poster, they wrote her name as Rosemary Ansah Aka, Maame Nti. I looked at the poster and smiled to myself. I said, …
I Was Her Maid of Honour, Now She’s Cheating With My Brother
My best friend dated my brother for over a year before they broke up. The relationship ended badly after a fight that happened right in front of me. My brother …
The Chicken Bone That Followed Me Into Adulthood
My mom wonders why, at my age, I still ‘steal’ meat in my own house. She lives with me now. When she’s cooking and I enter the kitchen, she knows …
I Think Marriage and Responsibility Turned My Husband Into a Monster.
When I married my husband, I never for once thought he would turn into a monster. All I saw when I set my eyes on him was love, care, and …
Was I Wrong to Attack My Friend and Her Husband Over the GH₵6,000 They Owed Me?
When Rita and her husband reached out to me, they did not sound like people who wanted to borrow money casually. They sounded desperate. Their third child was sick and …
My Co-Workers Pronounced Death Over My Patients Because I Do My Job Well
I am 27 years old. I am a community health nurse working in one of the CHPS compounds in the Bono Region. I just completed my BSc in Nursing this …
I Thought I Was Helping An Ex-Girlfriend, Not Knowing I Was Financing Her Marriage
I met her when we were both young and foolish enough to believe that love alone could outgrow circumstance. I was twenty. She was seventeen. At that age, love feels …
My Best Friend is Pressuring Us to Fund Her Wedding
My friend is getting married and she posted it in our squad WhatsApp group. I was genuinely happy for her. We are five girls who have shared secrets, tears, and …
I Know He’s Married, But I Can’t Leave Him. I Want His Wife to Find Out About Us
I dated him for four years. Four full years of my life, my youth, my emotions, my body, my hope. Four years of believing we were building something that would …
My Wife Was Made For Rainy Day
For a long time, I believed my wife was doing everything a good wife should do except one thing: contributing financially at home. Whenever I asked about it, she would …
I Was Burying My Mother When a Ghost Walked Up to Me at the Cemetery
I lost my boyfriend on Christmas in 2018. He went out with friends at night. He doesn’t drink, but surprisingly he found himself among friends who drank and smoked. On …
He Knows He’s Responsible for Our Infertility, But Still Blames Me for Not Getting Pregnant
I got married to a 50-year-old man when I was 35, but that is not the problem here. I have been married to this man for five years. We both …












