Marriage Memoirs — Part 3

DEAR WIFE, What he is hoping you already know I almost called this letter, ‘Dear Good Wife.’ I didn’t. Because in Nigeria, in our cultural memory, in the rooms where women have been quietly diminished for generations, “good wife” does not arrive neutral. It arrives with luggage. It is the phrase that has been used […] read more Marriage Memoirs — Part 3

Marriage Memoirs — Part 3

DEAR WIFE, What he is hoping you already know I almost called this letter, ‘Dear Good Wife.’ I didn’t. Because in Nigeria, in our cultural memory, in the rooms where women have been quietly diminished for generations, “good wife” does not arrive neutral. It arrives with luggage. It is the phrase that has been used […]

read more Marriage Memoirs — Part 3