Relationship

I’ve always had fears. Growing up wasn’t easy for me because I didn’t know who I was. I had a female name, female features so I was called a female but something wasn’t right. I […]

Two years ago my parents celebrated their 35th marriage anniversary. It was a grand event. In the church that day, the pastor used them as a yardstick for all marriages and asked the youth to […]

When he walked into the store that day, I cast a weird glance at him. It was the first time I was seeing him around and something about him made it obvious that he wasn’t […]

Bernard was there for me during my first breakup. He helped me through it by offering the shoulders to cry on. I sent him on a number of occasions to plead on my behalf as […]

I grew up knowing my mom was everything I had. No dad, no family members, no grannies, nothing. According to mom’s retelling, dad didn’t accept he was responsible for me so she had to bring […]

People disrespected us every day due to our work. We served people at a drinking bar. One had to enter the bar and for all the time he/she would spend there, we would be at […]

I was seventeen when I had him. That night when I delivered him, there was nothing more I wanted than to hold him and say “That’s my baby.” He was in my mother’s arms. She […]

Francis got married five years ago. He has a very beautiful family now; a daughter, a son and a beautiful wife to match. Just some months before his wedding, I was his girlfriend. We had […]

On our bed that night we didn’t know what to do. Not that we didn’t know but we didn’t know where to start and where to end. It was our first time to spend the […]

I was posted to Accra for the national service program. Getting accommodation was very tiring until I finally met Mr. Aboagye, a 56-year-old man who later became my landlord. He made the rent terms flexible […]

I still remember the first day I was forced to have sex. I was 18 and in love with a gentleman who promised me heaven on earth. He treated me like I was his everything […]

It was in the second year of our relationship that we decided to get married. We started putting plans together and buying the stuff couples usually buy when they want to spend their lives together. […]

My relationship with Eben ended very badly. I mean so bad that we had to throw verbal punches at each other. This is how we got to that point… At some point I wanted to […]

My husband worked in another town and I only got to see him when he had some days off or during the holidays. Sometimes I went to visit him where he worked. It was like […]

The day I proposed to her she said no. She explained, “There is this guy in my life. We’ve dated for two years and all of a sudden, he’s playing hide and seek with me. […]

It took a long time for me to say yes to Aboagye’s proposal. I wanted to be sure of him. I wanted to know him inside out. Above all, I wanted to be sure of […]

I remember the pain I went through when Prince, my boyfriend died in an accident. It wasn’t easy for me at all and I thought it was the end for me. Something in me believed […]

I was going through hard times when James came along. I’d broken up with a guy I spent four years with. He woke up one day and decided enough was enough. James had returned from […]