In 2020, Dayo (35) and Amaka (32) met at a mutual friend’s wedding. On this week’s Love Life, they talk about only realising their different backgrounds when family came into the picture, eloping when their families disapproved of their relationship and how moving in together made them question their compatibility.

Peter* (31) and Ayo* (30) have been inseparable for seven years and partners for five. On this week’s Love Life, they talk about starting out as friends at their very first job before slowly falling in love, navigating people’s assumptions of the gender roles and sexual dynamics of their relationship and keeping themselves a secret from family.

Nneka* (54) and Daniel* (28) are in a sugar mummy-sugar baby situation that’s been on since 2022. On this week’s Love Life, they talk about caring for each other within a purely transactional arrangement, how their first fight made the power dynamics clear and what they don’t miss about traditional relationships.

On this week’s Love Life, we look into the different ways Nigerians experience love, curated by Nigerian artist and love specialist Chike. On July 21, Chike put out a tweet asking his fans to share their most heartwarming love stories. We've compiled the cheesiest of them for your enjoyment.

Dozie (25) and Juliana (24)’s relationship started with a mutual crush on their first day of secondary school, 14 years ago. They’re on this week’s Love Life to share what it’s like to date as kids and not get sick of each other after a decade and a half.

Boma* (28) and John* (27) have been dating since their final year in university seven years ago. They’ve cohabited thrice in that time but always go back to living apart. In this week’s Love Life, they talk about their “casual commitment” and why it’s important to have breathing space in a relationship.

Pius (89) and Clementine (76) got married by proxy in 1966. He was studying to be a town planner in Hungary; she was a trainee teacher in Owerri. Arranged marriages were commonplace at the time, but navigating a war while pregnant in their second year of marriage wasn't. On this week’s Love Life, the subjects share how they made it work.

They met when Ola (25) started selling puff-puff in front of Akeem’s (32) father’s school in 2018. The ensuing relationship was purely transactional for two years until they started planning to japa together.