22 results for "sex life"

What She Said: My Parents Once Ignored Me for a Year
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The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 42-year-old Nigerian woman. She shares how being her parents’ least favourite child made her fail school, lose motivation to work and accept her husband’s infidelity as her fault. Trigger warning: This story touches on parental emotional abuse and self-hate
August 2, 2023
What She Said: I’ve Completely Given Up on Dating Men
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Growing up religious, this 29-year-old Nigerian woman assumed she was straight, but several toxic relationships (and situation-ships) later, she’s exploring dating her gender. From the inconsistent cultist to the insecure dog beater, she shares the hetero-experiences that led her to this shift on this week’s What She Said.
July 19, 2023
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The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 62-year-old Nigerian woman who has many life regrets. She talks about getting married at 19, struggling to settle into a new continent as a married single mum and spending 30 years in a long-distance marriage.
July 5, 2023
What She Said: I Own 324 Books and Counting
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The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 26-year-old Nigerian woman who shares a nostalgic story behind how her book obsession started, why she thinks romance novels ruined her love life and her journey to collecting all her favourite classics, one book at a time.
June 7, 2023
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The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 26-year-old Nigerian woman who struggles to reconcile her faith with her sexuality. How does she approach women in a homophobic Nigeria or tell her loving but religious mother she's a lesbian? Easy, she doesn’t. Here’s this week’s #ZikokoWhatSheSaid:
May 3, 2023
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Her first husband called her “The most beautiful girl in Nigeria”, love-bombing her before making her his third wife then only interacting with her for sex. She was 19; he was 39. By 22, she had two children she couldn’t tell her second husband about.  Now, she’s alone in Canada with her third and last child. Here’s what the 29-year-old said:
April 5, 2023