SINGLE IN THE CITY: Friends are not the best life advisers

>We huddled at the table like Secret service agents plotting a murder against an enemy of the state as we shielded a friend who was in tears from everyone’s view. A victim of betrayal, she had just found out that her husband-to-be was cheating on her. While trying to make her feel better, loads of advice was pouring in.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Oct

SINGLE IN THE CITY: Do not make your life an open book

>Every woman has a group of friends that she calls her “girls”, these form her intimate circle of friends with whom she shares everything about her life. It could be a group of 3-4 friends whom you go way back or it could be that one woman whom you probably grew up with, studied with or who they have a history with. This woman is her diary, her best friend for life and sister from another mother.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Sep

SINGLE IN THE CITY: We go through different phases

>Have you ever wondered why men rarely marry the women they date for years?  You date a guy all the way through campus, see him through the roughest times of his life and stick with him when the world is against him then he suddenly dumps you only to marry a girl he just met 3 months ago?

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Sep

SINGLE IN THE CITY: Need to appreciate our own culture

It’s like you’ve lost your favourite jewellery. Sofa cushions are turned inside out; dusty corners of the room are massaged for the clue that will lead you to that glint of silver. Spotting the place where the ‘Afropolitan’ girl is comfortable, where the ‘Afropolitan’ male is content in our cities is times like finding that missing jewel.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

03 May

SINGLE IN THE CITY: Is being ‘second wife’ unnerving?

>Life doesn’t always pan out the way we hope it would. From our career goals, up to the more personal relationship issues, everything seems to head downhill. I’ve always been a compassionate woman, I’m known to many as the kindest lady one can be, for this, I find myself vulnerable and a little naive.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Jul

SINGLE IN THE CITY: We need to raise our emotional IQ

>The ‘gunia’ table tops to my left are covered with tomatoes and mangoes, an assortment of watermelons and carrots with green peppers line the right side of the ‘genge’. I’ve come by to get some fruit. It’s around 7pm in this dimly lit stall and the owner is speaking to his male buddy as I pick a mango.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Jan

SINGLE IN THE CITY: Let’s take a look at our skipped rituals

>When I was younger I had a huge crush on Enrique Iglesias, I believed we were soul mates and we would end up together all because the song ‘Hero’ reflected my ideal virtues of being ‘in love.’

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Feb

SINGLE IN THE CITY: Coolest gifts for him

>Let us turn to our Bibles for a minute, shall we?James 1:17. I will read: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father who made the heavenly lights; within Him there is no variation or shadow…”

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Nov

SINGLE IN THE CITY: What to expect from a bachelor

>Truth be told there is a very big difference between a mere bachelor and one who has taken quite a number of decades in the venture.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Jan

SINGLE IN THE CITY: Settling for good enough

>Two days after a devastating breakup, I had lunch with the biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, the person who probably knows more about the science of romance and long-term love than anyone else on the planet. Our meeting wasn’t a ploy for tips on how to win him back but to discuss her latest study.

 

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