Within the past few years, having a “side chick” has reached a crescendo. There are songs, movies, and even books about being the other woman, which is pretty messed up. You’d think men would “keep it 100” and tell you if they weren’t ready to be in a relationship with only one person (or that he’s actually already with someone when you meet).

Almost all highly successful people say that there is no success without sacrifice. This is totally true, but one day your sacrifices can make you an unhappy person. Thoughtless sacrifices can break your reputation, ruin valuable relationships, steal your health, life energy, time, and money.

People often make challenging decisions without assessing the risks and all possible consequences. Life is full of crucially important things and values people should never sacrifice for the sake of a relationship because love is like a bird that can fly away one day. Here are the things that are more important than love.

Instead of marriage being a joyful union as intended by the Creator, it has lately become unattractive to many young people especially Christians, due to various factors like the difficulty of choosing the right partner, shirking of responsibilities of family life, married young men flirting with other people’s wives, likewise married young women making babies for men outside marriage.

This article discusses some traditional values and responsibilities of stakeholders of African Christian marriage, which have either been neglected or compromised thereby contributing to the increasing rate of divorce in Ghana, like some other countries.

Time to celebrate mother.

A baby is born as the most helpless of God’s creations but a mother nurtures the baby through all stages of life; infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

A good mother provides the basic needs of her children. She teaches honesty, hard work and domestic care. She is kind and patient. She is not self-seeking but sacrifices at the risk of her life to help her children. 

IS this one going to work out, or are you doomed to fail? I hear the question "Is he/she the right one for me?" ALL the time, and now — when there are more single people than there have ever been and there is more betrayal than ever people have a hard time trusting that they will pick the right person to love.

Jealousy should not be confused with envy. Envy is something you want but don’t have, whereas jealousy is something you already have but are afraid of losing. There is a big difference. 

Kwaku, Driver

We all enter relationships because we want to be where we would be happy with the people we love.

 It’s only when you begin to really relate with the person that you begin to realise whether the new person you’re with would give you that love and peace of mind you seek.

Love is an oft used word, an oft desired word, an oft exploited word. We try to classify it as conditional love and unconditional love.

People married to a frail spouse are likely to become frail themselves and a person married to a depressed spouse is more likely to be sad, say researchers, adding that in older adults, frailty and depression are connected within couples.

Studies show that if a man expects 10 things in a relationship but finds eight, he is likely to leave but if a woman expects 10 things but finds only two, she is likely to stay. She is prepared to do anything to hold on. 

She loves too much – she is obsessed about her man and calls it love. She holds on to the relationship which is obviously dead and looks for drama, attention. Her obsession negatively controls her emotions, behaviour and general well-being, tension and security

1. When you chop off most of your hair. The idea that men don't know when women have done something with their hair is an old joke. It's a joke that's been beaten to death like a dead horse with a second dying horse, and then the second horse died and someone beat that, too.

1. He's clueless. Entertain the notion that he has no idea asking you out is anything but laughable. He might think you're out of his league or not interested. He might never have thought of you "that way" but he totally could think of you "that way" if he had a little nudge.

By God’s plan, the most important purpose of marriage is companionship. However in Ghana and in most developing countries, children are the focus of marriage and a marriage without children is seen as a bad omen.

Every woman, therefore, yearns to be a mother. Unfortunately, global studies shows 10 per cent of women cannot have children by natural means.

The causes of infidelity in women are many; the inability to produce healthy eggs, blockage of fallopian tubes and defective uterus which reject fertilised eggs. 

There is no shortage of relationship advice available, and one of the most common phrases is: Accept your partner for who he or she is and don’t try to change him or her.

While you may be able to make minor tweaks — like getting your significant other to wear dress pants instead of athletic shorts when you go out to eat — trying to make major changes to your partner is not part of a healthy relationship. Here are 4 things you will never be able to change about your significant other — no matter how hard you try.

Throughout our lives we settle for many things. You shouldn’t have to settle for the love you are entitled to have. How do you view your love life? Whatever you put out into the universe, it will mirror back with loving reflections. Love is an act of spiritual, emotional and physical will.

Love has no judgment, no agenda, no bias, and no bigotry. Love is love without a concrete definition. It lets go of boundaries, walls, and inhibitions. It is effortless. In relationships it does require work, but it’s just a rhythmic dance of ease and grace. Unfortunately, when it isn’t an easy dance, the relationship ends disastrously. It’s in those moments that we ask, “What happened?”

She lost her job and many of her friends due to her struggles with addiction.

But Sami Walton is not under the power of drugs or alcohol, but rather a slave to her own lust.

The 29-year-old has a sex addiction that leaves her unable to keep her hands off partner of four years James Keates.

Today marriage has become a battlefield with most spouses being casualties. Sociologists warn that if marriage continues to break down at the present rate, there will be no more marriages left by the end of this century.

The sad picture today is that only 20 per cent of marriages work, while 60 per cent of marriages fail. This leaves us with 20 per cent marriages which are lifeless.