HE has many female friends, which I have bitten my tongue on for sometime now. Honestly, at first i didn't consider them any threats because I was secure of my place in his life. Then as time strolled on, I started realizing that these females stay around because of the attention he is giving...
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Tags: Dating, Friends & Lovers, Naija Men, relationships
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Within 2 minutes of any conversation with my mother, the question comes up. Its some variation of “when is that man of yours going to move this relationship forward”. And I do my best to switch the convo or come up with yet another excuse as to why we’re waiting to move into marriage....
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Tags: Love & Marriage
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Ok, so being the living contradiction that I am, I totally did not take my own advice from my recent blog. I left it all up to him. Screw it- forget what the so called experts say about love and relationships. I shouldn’t have to tell you how to make me happy. So in...
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Tags: Birthday, Dating, Expressing Love, Presents
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First, if you haven’t already, get the background on Ade and Mr. J- So as expected, Mr. J notices something is going on with Ade. (told ya so). Although- as Ade assures me – she has dissolved those two cheat props of hers, the guilt still reads all over her face and her actions....
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Tags: Ade, Advice, Cheater Alert, Mr. J, Rings and Things
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Yay, my birthday is coming up! And as I announced in my first post, I’m all about romance…. Deeds of love is my daily fuel and one way I think love manifests itself is through surprises. And being that me and my beau, Mr. One, are very similar in how we approach this relationship,...
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Tags: love, men
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It pains my heart when I hear people ruining a good relationship for temporary attention and satisfaction. Now this hurts even more because I’m pretty close to both the cheater and the victim. How unfortunate – yet so fortunate for you because it makes for a good story . The cheater here has a...
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Tags: Cheating, Lies, Mr. Nice, relationships
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So who cares about that 'Relationship Status' field on your facebook profile anyway? ...EVERYBODY!
Let's face it, facebook just makes being nosy that much easier, especially when it comes to your love life. And some people have no shame in their game - every other day they upload a pic of tongue action with...
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Tags: facebook, TMI
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March 16, 2009 - THE EX FILES: Gifts – To Keep or Not To Keep?
So here’s the thing, I still have a few remnants from past relationships. I'm not talking about photos, love letters, or tickets from all the stuff we did together (yea, I keep those) - No, that stuff goes in trash...
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Tags: ex, love, Naija Girl
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March 11, 2009 - The Introduction
In relationships I'm what I like to call a hopeful romantic. I'm not ashamed or reluctant to give my 98% of my love -- I have 2% on reserve just to be safe-- no matter what the other half of the union is contributing. I fully believe I'll get...
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Tags: love
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