Friends, can we talk about relationship PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), many of us have it yet we simply brush it off, and don’t acknowledge its effect on us and our future relationships. If you would be honest with yourself for a minute, and look back at your past relationships, what pattern would emerge from...
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Trapped Ekasi : The Trial Of The 20 Something Successful Young African Woman Who Can’t Leave Home Till Prince Charming Comes Riding In a Red Golf 5 GTI.
“What is the point of being empowered and share the pedestal with a man in society if I still can’t leave home and worse, I have curfew at 25?” one lady asked. To know where you going you have to know where you come from, but you would agree that culture; tradition and customs could...
Letters To My Younger Sisters (Part 4)
When everything else in your world seems to be falling apart and the pressure of keeping things and yourself together takes its toll, you need a time-out from the rest of the world to recharge. Usually things fall apart when you really can’t afford to leave your world: during exam time, during the annual audit...
Letters To My Younger Sisters (Part 3)
Dear Little Sister What I have oft admired about the territorial markings of beasts is that they signify a protective order; they are defensive marks [they let you know that you are about to enter a lion’s den ∙ at you peril]. Men display similar behaviour in that they are not overly suspicious of a...
The Truth About It All
Hello ladies and gentlemen, This week I wanted to share a few truths I’ve come to accept. I wrote this a while back and I thought it would be great to remind myself to see if I still feel the same. Hope you enjoy it. You see the truth about it all, is that like everyone...
Your Relationship Has Probably Already Ended, Only You Don’t Know It.
That time you found out the love of your life had been cheating on you for the past several weeks or months or years. How about that time you realized how much of a toxic relationship you were in only after leaving the person you once thought you can’t live without? You just can’t help...
Body. Image. Self
When I was growing up I don’t recall ever being told I was beautiful. I sift through memories and the one thing that continuously comes out strongly is how I felt awkward and not pretty. I recall the words used to reference my appearance, and they were never appealing. I am a “Grand Dame Queen...
A. Designed. Life. (Part 4)
MR. K Frustrated at his foiled plans, Mr. K tells his brothers that the diner is cancelled and that they should all call their significant others, currents or exes and hit the town. Shirts pressed, coats swinging as they jump into their expensive cars and drive up to the VVIP entrance of the trendiest club...
You Don’t ‘Deserve’ A Woman, You Earn Her. But Why Bother When They Do This …
Thanks to women it has become ever easier to ‘get’ a woman, and even easier to dump one and go to the next. Look around you. We’ve done it too fast and too often that your current or prospect has probably already been with someone you know. In fact they may still be with that...
She Wants A Man, She Needs A Parent.
During my single state of affairs, I had the opportunity to ask this one lady I was conversing with: “What kind of man do you want?” This question was one of those questions I totally was not interested in the answer for, but they are a prerequisite to the start of a relationship, affair, hook...