I had left that relationship a hundred times in my head before I actually left it. I had rehearsed the conversation, planned the timing, talked myself in and out of it so many times that the back and forth had become its own exhausting routine. And every time I did…
“Had to say bye bye ooo, bye bye oooo…” That Las Las by Burna Boy became my national anthem the year my own heart scattered on the floor. I played it like a woman who needed the beat to carry her pain. Breakups can humble your spirit in ways you…
“The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing about.” I remember stumbling across this quote during my psychology studies years ago, and it still perfectly explains what happens when our feelings refuse to align with our logic. Look, I’ve been writing about relationships for eight years now, and I can…
I remember sitting cross-legged on my bed at 2 AM, staring at my phone screen with that familiar ache in my chest. Three little dots appeared, disappeared, then reappeared again. I’d been waiting for this response for hours after sending what felt like my heart wrapped in a text message:…
