Family

How to deal with difficult in-laws in Nigeria: facing them as a couple, what to say about visits, money and children, and what to do when it goes too far.

Someone else can now pay for your therapy on Mytherapist.ng without seeing your sessions. How Pay for me links and Sponsors work, and what to expect.

How to co-parent after a separation in Nigeria: a written parenting plan, calmer messages, extended family, school fees, and what to do when it isn’t safe.

Guilty about leaving your parents behind when you japa? How to set up care before you go, stay close from abroad, share the load with siblings, and cope.

Whether a therapist can tell your parents depends mostly on your age. What Nigerian law says for under-18s and adults, when they’d share, and where to get help.

Struggling to conceive after a previous pregnancy? What secondary infertility is, why it happens, why it hurts, when to see a doctor, and how to cope together.

When your husband, wife or partner is addicted to betting: the signs, how to protect your money, how to raise it, keeping yourself safe, and support for you.

How sickle cell affects mood, from pain crises to stigma and genotype worries, how parents cope, and where people living with sickle cell can get support.

Worried someone is thinking about suicide? How to ask directly, what to say and avoid, how to keep them safe, and who to call in Nigeria.

In-laws asking, prayer meetings you didn’t ask for, talk of a second wife. How couples facing childlessness can handle family pressure as a team, in Nigeria.

Your family says “just pray about it” when you mention therapy. What they usually mean, words you can use, and what Christian and Muslim teaching says.

How to choose a drug or alcohol rehab centre in Nigeria: what good treatment looks like, red flags, questions to ask, and public options in Lagos and Abuja.

The calls, the transfers, the guilt when you say no. What supporting your family costs mentally, and how to keep giving without going under.

You organised the burial, fed the visitors and held everyone together. Then everyone left. Grief after losing a parent in Nigeria, and why it hits later.

Doing it alone in a country that assumes two. The mental load of single parenting in Nigeria, the stigma nobody names, and what genuinely helps.

Struggle to say no? Healthy boundaries protect your mental health and your relationships. Learn how to set them — even when it feels uncomfortable.

When someone you love is struggling, it’s hard to know what to do. Here’s how to support them well — without burning yourself out.

Marriage, career, children, money — family expectations can weigh heavily. Learn how to honour your family while protecting your own mental health.

Secure, anxious, avoidant or fearful? What the four attachment styles look like in adult relationships, a quick self-check, and how to become more secure.

In any long-term relationship, there will be hard conversations—like an illness your partner has, something they did wrong, a better sex life, […]