Love Issues

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 …

I never grew up with my mother the way most children do. While other kids had their mothers, I was always with other people. Always. Even for the short while …