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Dear Coach, I am love with a young lady in her mid-20s. We met at our workplace and we have been dating for the past eight years.

I will not lie, it has been a bitter- sweet relationship, which at first I thought it is a normal thing for any relationship to experience. For the past months the complexion of the normal I am familiar with, changed and became so toxic and dangerous for both of us.

I am so scared for us. I have thought of leaving the relationship but I feel like I have invested a lot in it to let it go easily. When we started dating, we had partners whom we both had children with.

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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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