Mom confesses to secret 20-year affair
When I was three years old and my brother just six months old, my father suddenly died, leaving my mother a very young widow.
December 23, 2018
When I was three years old and my brother just six months old, my father suddenly died, leaving my mother a very young widow.
My husband and I got married immediately after college. I forced him into it. We argued because he said a wife and a possible kid along the way would
Dear Emily, I’ve been separated from my husband for almost 25 years and have two children. He was a serial womanizer. Our end came when he got his last girlfriend
When my mother planned on marrying someone who we already thought was a gold digger, after the annulment of her marriage to my father, we were proven right.
Dear Emily, My mother and her best friend have known each other since nursery. They were so close they promised each other they’d marry off their firstborn once they
I was an only child, and my parents couldn’t do enough to spoil me. I was brought to school by a driver and a maid, who stayed with me till I was ready to go home in the evening.
Dear Emily, I recently married a foreigner who has gone back abroad while I wait for my visa approval. He sends me a monthly allowance to pay for bills like
I am an only daughter with three brothers, and it was very traumatic for my family when I got pregnant in high school by a boy from a poor family. They lamented that I threw away my future. I was sent to relatives in the north to give birth.
I was in a toxic relationship with a boyfriend for a little over 15 years. I met him in a party and our chemistry was instant. But, after the passion cooled off, his true colors came out. He was a drunk, womanizer, a creep, such that I prayed every moment to be rid of him. Fifteen years later, my prayers were answered. He fell for another. My wallet and I couldn’t believe we were freed of that monster. From then, it was liberating not to hear 747-sounding snores, or worry about other women giving me STDs.
My husband and I went abroad as United States immigrants right after college. I became an officer in a bank, while he worked for an international organization. Except for our being childless, life was good to us. We lived in a nice part of the city, entertained and traveled a lot. We also had a live-in househelp for decades—a privilege that came with my husband’s job. She was the daughter of the maid of my in-laws’ family in the province, who worked for them for 59 years until she died.
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