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Business Profile: Greymate Care

In today’s fast-paced world, it sometimes feels like there are not enough hours to pack into a day. There’s so much to do, but very little time to get them done. We wish we had more minutes to complete tasks,

One Simple Tip for an Incredibly Fulfilling Marriage in 2017

I recently learnt that a great marriage is really not possible for lazy people. As someone who identifies as “lazy”, this understandably gave me cause for concern. As 2016 came to an end and I started laying out my goals

The One Thing I Never Paid Attention To About Love Languages

As a student of linguistics, dialectology was one of my favourite aspects to study. The differences between dialects of a language fascinated me to no end, as did paying attention to the points where a dialect would be considered a

Why I’m Learning to Speak The Language of Quality Time

I never knew that loving my husband would be so expensive. I wish gifts would do the job, so I could just buy them, big and small. I wish physical touch could mean much to him, so I could give

Will You Wait Till The Water Runs Dry?

“We don’t even talk anymore…” So begins one of my favourite Boys II Men songs, ‘Water Runs Dry’. When a marriage is headed downhill, talking is usually the next to die after kissing. You just don’t do it anymore. Talking

What You Should Remember When Pressured to Just Marry

I recently had reason to be ashamed of myself. Very ashamed, in fact. You know that place as a single woman where everyone is wondering why you’re smart and pretty and hardworking and altogether lovely, and yet you’re not married.

5 Skills I Can’t Wait To Teach My Child

I have great appreciation for the work that school teachers do. As a children’s Sunday School teacher, I know what it can be like not just to be surrounded by more than a handful of children, but to actually try

5 Tips for Getting Along With Your New In-Laws

Settling into married life is hard, not only because you and your husband are just getting used to living and building a life together, but also because you married his family when you married him. Here are 5 tips that

Does Your Family Need a Staycation?

I’ve been in love with the concept of staycations for years. It’s a great thing to do with your annual leave or any other time you have off, especially in a recession like this one we’re in. That you can’t

5 Success Seeds You Can Sow Daily for Your Relationship

Relationship success, like success in other areas of life, is an aggregate of great choices and actions every day. Not many people fall in love and grow in love because of one big thing or the other that their partner

How to Plan Towards Having Your First Baby

In modern times like these, having a baby requires much planning, and affordability is one word we can somehow understand, without taking too many factors into consideration. More people are having fewer children which is in contrast to our parent’s

5 Ways to Help If Your Husband Gets Laid Off

Recession is not just a word. Every day, people are losing their jobs and it’s not a function of their performance. Many companies just can’t afford to keep people on. Being there for a fired husband is not a walk

How to Marry Scum

Not a day passes without me seeing “men are scum” on Twitter, and for every person who posts it as a joke, there’s someone who clearly means it. It used to bother me a lot, mainly for two reasons; I

Does Anyone Miss Being a New Mum?

When it comes to being a new mum, most people only talk about how hard it was. The sleepless nights, the endless crying with no apparent cause, the lack of “me time”, the expenses, and the general inconvenience that come

Can You Make Someone Love You?

When Chuks met Isio, he knew he wanted to marry her. Both Christians in their 30s, they had been talking online for a while, and although they enjoyed the conversations, they both wondered what meeting face to face would be

One Reason Why Marriage Can Suck in the Early Years

Many of us are good at paying lip service to the fact that marriage is a union of two different people who are sometimes from different backgrounds. However, when it comes down to applying that knowledge in daily life, we

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