Day: May 22, 2025
THE WEIGHT OF A MAN Episode 3:
— The hospital smelled like antiseptic and prayers. Dolapo was in labor. Twelve hours. No progress. I sat on the bench outside the maternity ward, drenched in sweat. Not from heat—but from fear. Fear that something would go wrong. That this child we had sacrificed everything for might not make it. That the woman who […]
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— : “What the World Expects” — The morning after that emotional conversation with Dolapo, something changed between us. Not magically. Not like those Instagram couples who snap back into laughter and dancing. But something softened. She looked at me with different eyes, and I stopped walking around with that bitterness in my chest. But […]
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THE WEIGHT OF A MAN
A Coolvalstories Production — Episode 1: “This Wasn’t in the Vows” They say marriage is sweet when you marry your friend. I thought I married my best friend. I, Tunde Martins, a 31-year-old civil engineer from Ibadan, stood at the altar barely eight months ago, holding the hands of the woman I had chased for […]
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