I am a Christian woman. I don’t know when love became so difficult for me, but I can tell you when I first noticed the shift. It was after my …

My husband is behaving well now. He is doing all the right things. He is open with his phone, he comes home on time, his words are gentle. But here …

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I think about how everything started. Sometimes I lie on my bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering if this is how …

I’ve read many stories on this page. Stories that made me laugh, pause, rethink my life, and even wipe tears quietly when no one was watching. But today, I want …

I still remember the morning everything changed. Kojo woke up, stretched lazily on the bed, and said, almost casually, “I want to travel and when I do, I don’t think …

I think I am in the same dilemma as the man who lost his first love because of distance and excuses. In my case, he has been on my case …

I always thought heartbreak was something distant—a storm that happened to other people, on other timelines, in stories told by friends over drinks. I never thought it would find me, …

Last night, my wife went through my phone while I was asleep. She read my chats with her younger sister, Julianna, and with Lucy, a National Service person at my …

I met Akos in our class group chat. Everyone ignored her message. I almost did too, but something in me refused. She was lost, confused, behind in everything. I didn’t …

It didn’t start badly. It started with me noticing how low the fire had become in our marriage. Our marriage felt like a pot on a dying coal stove: barely …

Less than twenty days ago, I lost my first love and only love. She is a doctor, a poet, and a writer who graduated from a university in Cairo two …

For a long time, marriage has been my biggest prayer point. I am 35, but I don’t have a man in my life. Every night, I tell God the kind …