it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.
Respectfully sir, I have deliberately stayed out of this discussion out of respect for your person. I knew people would see the things I saw and respond accordingly. Alhamdulillah, I've seen quite a number of balanced takes already.
But then no one seemed to be talking about the one sentence that really caught my attention.
The part where you said "she needs to feed his need to lead."
And I thought to myself...
Isn't this exactly how our mothers unintentionally raised many of the men we are now struggling with?
By constantly cushioning their egos.
By making it a woman's responsibility to protect a man's self-esteem at all costs.
Here's a man who, according to the story, inherited a thriving family business and ran it aground. Fair enough, people fail. That can happen to anyone.
But now he wants to take over the business his wife built? The very one he didn't want her to start.
Doesn't that already tell us where the real problem is?
At what point does she get to just be the wife?
The weaker vessel, the one whose responsibility is only to support.
The same wife we constantly remind to submit to the head of the family.
Because from your advice, she now has to become his confidence coach, his business adviser, his financier, his ego booster, his emotional support system, his PR manager, and somehow still remain the submissive wife.
How?
Then he topped it all off with the threat of divorce.
And honestly, that's where I completely checked out.
Because it tells us the believe the every woman's greatest fear should be losing her marriage.
Why?
Because society has spent generations teaching women that a divorced woman has somehow failed. That an unmarried woman deserves less respect. It's the same mindset that fuels all the weekly conversations shaming women over age, marriage, fertility, finances... there's always something.
Then there's the issue of control.
I have always believed that many men mistake leadership for control.
The moment they can't control a woman, they suddenly feel they've lost their place.
But leadership and control are not the same thing.
Don't get me wrong.
I believe in supporting your spouse.
I believe in building together.
I believe marriage should be the safest place either partner ever experiences.
But I also don't believe in making one partner responsible for raising the other into adulthood.
If this story is exactly as the woman narrated it, then this man doesn't need a wife who constantly feeds his need to lead.
He needs to rediscover himself.
Because a man whose identity depends on his wife pretending he is in charge isn't leading.
He's surviving on borrowed confidence.
And I don't think that's fair to either of them.
My Dear Sisters/Ladies.
I sincerely hope you are wide awake, Are you reading the room?
Have your standards , work on your financial life so deliberately, The balance is skewed against you.
Don't end up in Penury because you are being shamed, either broke , divorce or age shamed. Be clear about who you will settle down with
Go through their social media pages, out of the abundance of the heart do the mouth speaketh.
The pain of regret is worse than anything you are reading currently. Emotional torture of marriage and birthing with an irresponsible Man is worse. At least having your own money will cushion the effects for you.
Please learn , adjust or Perish. Our society especially the current crop of MT Men is brutal , The majority of them have similar ideologies only few exceptions,
May the Lord help you and my daughters all the way. Don't lose guard please.
Stay sane, stay informed, stay guided and be absolutely confident in your ability to ditch and and say No to Nonsense from anyone of them
Learn or Perish
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But sponsoring a few of Nigeria's brightest minds to China to represent the country at an international mathematics competition was not.💔
Fvcking retards!
My hatred for Peller started the day he put out a job vacancy for the role of his cameraman, stating that he wanted only Master’s degree holders. He was deliberately trying to ridicule academic excellence. He’s a fool.
At a point I was almost 24 hours off social media for medical reasons and I want to say God punish the Nigerian leaders since independence who have selfishly governed and held Nigeria back on development. Whether in the Judiciary, legislature or executive.
An entire state can get wiped out in one night and Nigerians will go to work the next day. We’re being exposed to an insane level of violence and we’re scrolling away
The African diaspora needs to stop treating this as just another online debate.
If South Africa wants to normalise the mistreatment, humiliation and scapegoating of other Africans, then Africans outside South Africa should respond economically and culturally.
Stop watching South African films and shows. Stop buying South African wine. Stop buying South African products. Stop promoting South African tourism. Stop rewarding a country that treats vulnerable Africans as disposable while still expecting African solidarity, African markets and African cultural support.
This is not hatred of ordinary South Africans. It is a refusal to support a system and a social climate that dehumanises other Africans while calling it patriotism.
If African lives matter, then African money, attention and cultural support should also matter.
At this point, it is a moral obligation! I for one, I am done!
The same parents who travel long distances to help/ grieve/ celebrate their friends?
The ones greeting almost everyone from church to the market? They model alot about community and friendship. Alot of us think we're too good for mundane things.
Let's be serious please.
@oku_yungx@richking2009 Africans are COWARDS. How can the whole of Africa not rise up in one voice and push this evil back? AU should sanction them and put a travel BAN on South Africans across Africa as well as Sanction South African businesses across the continent till they learn! TOTALLY HEARTLESS!!!