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Dear Gaone My partner occasionally gets moody. As a man who loves her so much and tries all I can to make our relationship work, I really feel bothered by this. When she is moody, she emotionally withdraws and spends time alone. I feel that maybe she is not completely happy with me but she has told me that her occasional emotional withdrawals mostly have nothing to with me and just help her to reflect and feel mentally rejuvenated in all areas of her life. I just don’t get it but I do not wanna leave her at the same time. Kindly advise.

Dear Anonymous

I deem it worthy to quote verbatim excerpts from Dr John Gray’s book titled ‘Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus’ in an effort to advise you. In the aforesaid book men are referred to as Martians whilst women are referred to as Venusians. I personally think that the contents of the aforesaid chapter ring true for quite a number of women.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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