Three or four Sundays ago, when we got home after the Sunday service, the table was set for lunch, as usual. As a tradition, we eat together as a household.

The figures below are about the descendants of Jonathan Edwards and Max Jukes. These are two families that really lived. Jonathan Edwards was a gentleman, who married a very responsible lady. They had a stable marriage and a good family life.

One way that society rates ladies and “judges” them is by their marital status. The African society generally showers more honour on married women than single women. I have heard some single ladies say words like, “I will do anything to get a husband”.

The Living Bible translates 1 Samuel 18:24-26 this way “Tell David that the only dowry I need is one hundred dead philistines.”

When a man is wiser than the lady he is in courtship with and the lady knows that the man is wiser than her, their courtship is likely to be less turbulent. But when it is clear that a lady is wiser than the man she is in courtship with, boy

A mother having a soft spot for a male child is not uncommon. It can be due to many reasons. There is the case of a mother, who kept seeing her 32-year-old son as a little boy. He happened to be her first born.

When my dad saw that I was struggling academically in his house in primary school, he took me to go and stay with his younger sister, whose husband was a headmaster in a village primary school and I became one of the best three students in our class.

Many men and women have had cause to complain that their spouses are no longer sexually attractive. When some wives or husbands find themselves in such a situation, they say they are no longer in love.

Many men and women have had cause to complain that their spouses are no longer sexually attractive. When some wives or husbands find themselves in such a situation, they say they are no longer in love.

A few months back, a lady walked into my office for counselling. She was very angry with her husband. She had earlier advised him to take to a given line of business...

Sometime this year, a woman whose marriage was on the verge of collapse came to me for advice. As usual, I won’t go into details of the issue that were at stake, so her secret will remain secret.

In 2003, we needed to change our caterer, who was getting really old. We got her rehabilitated into another means of livelihood that would not stress her too much. We got a new caterer from a West African country, who was an expert.