Tag: #toughtimes
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Life Goes On
Many girls got married / had babies to unworthy men to get away from their families.I am “girls”.When I watched the video of the girl asking her parents for that phone my brain went back to why my dad sent me out of the house, chasing me with cutlass and till date I couldn’t remember.I…
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Different Orí, Different Path
Trying to teach my daughter a particular design of beading on a customer’s gown. Ọmọ, she didn’t get it. I was so angry but thought about it later that her line of career is not definitely the same path as mine. This is someone who prefers to get the spanners out to work on the…
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Crowdfunding, Crowdfinance, Microfinance? Esusú and Àjọ
Crowdfunding, Crowdfinance, Microfinance? Esusú and Àjọ have existed in Yorùbáland for centuries. Written by Ọlọ́bẹ Yọyon Crowdfunding is defined as the practice of funding a venture by raising monetary contributions from a number of people. In Europe and in North American, this new industry is a money spinner. Unless you have been living under a…
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QUIT NOTICE – I NEED TO MOVE ASAP
Given quit notice, sent my 13 month old baby boy to his paternal grandparents. Trying to sort my 13 YEARS old daughter elsewhere while I run around to raise money for a new apartment and move to Ajah precisely. I have been restless and promoting all stuffs on my businesses page on social media so…
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LIFE WHEN YOU MAKE THE WRONG MISTAKES
I did myself dirty by going into a relationship in 2020 and having a baby in 2022. The relationship scattered everything I have tried to build the years before, I was back to square one. Abject poverty square one As I typed this I can hear my daughter telling her adopted sister that she will…
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2023 WILL BE GOOD TO ME AND MY KIDS
Today’s December 22, and I haven’t been able to make any sales and buy my kids Christmas clothes. It’s something I’m ashamed of and going to do better next year. It was never my plan that my second baby daddy to be a deadbeat. How I feed the two kids alone every day is something…
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Modupe Eledua
My birthday was two days ago, my daughter tomorrow and son, December 8. I’m grateful to eledua for everything. I’m very grateful for being alive and how we get help to survive. Saving as a sole single mom of two is very hard , tried to save 500k for my son’s one year old birthday…
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Lessons Learnt
Ever since I broke up with my baby daddy after the domestic violence stuff. I have kept ringing it in my daughter’s ears to not aspire to get married or want children. These aspirations are not to be forced. Look up for disadvantages in it. Getting married and having a child has so many disadvantages,…
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Adetutu OJ Unfiltered Blog
Been a while here. I started a personal video blog on my Facebook and YouTube. It’s called Adetutu OJ Unfiltered Please try like and subscribe to my pages, I will appreciate it. 🙏🏾🤍
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Empty Promises
One thing I learnt as orphan is that “do not believe any promises”. Believing empty promises got me to where I am today and I regret it deeply. From my first baby daddy promising to train me from writing senior high school exams to university level. Got me pregnant and absconded. To 12 years later…
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Torn
I’m torn between paying the rent I owe or getting another place. Got this place I am last year out of hurry and it has a lot of disadvantages I have endured. From tight rooms to very heated rooms. Landlord and children fighting about who actually owns the house to water issues. Now the bedroom…