This is one of the things I once spoke about in my post on โalmajirinisation of marriage and relationshipโ. A man is expected to improve the woman professionally, academically, financially, and give her security. Fine. But who is improving the man throughout his life? If he dares to expect reciprocal growth, contribution, or even basic partnership in those same areas, he is quickly labelled an opportunist or โnot doing enough.โ
Respectfully, I refuse that model for my daughters. My job as their father is to raise them so thoroughly; educationally, professionally, financially, and in character, that no man will ever need to โimproveโ them. They will enter marriage as complete adults, not as projects.
Infantilising women is precisely what creates the ownership mentality. When a man believes he โmadeโ her, he starts to feel entitled to own and control her. I will not raise my daughters to be anyoneโs upgrade project or lifelong dependent.
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Yhemo Lee, Go Crazy, Raman Jago, etc. fit drop their own knack $10,000 on top am, talmabout โyouโre not the target audience.โ ๐
I want to agree in part and disagree in part.
Firstly, whether she is a good woman or not, is beside the point. If you choose someone, you have a responsibility to them to love and to cherish.
The whole point of relationship/marriage is to do life together. This means that everything we have and everything we are, is for our mutual benefit and for the benefit of this relationship/family. Worthy of note is that, it is the responsibility of a father to give their child good education. I'm putting myself in the position of a child and the position of a father - the answer is the same. It is whom you are, that you bring to the relationship to invest in your partner and the relationship.
It is dangerous to teach women that they should go into relationships looking for a man to sponsor their life. It is dangerous to teach men that they have a responsibility to train women in school. It is dangerous to tell parents that their daughters would be trained by the man who chooses to date them. Unintentionally, you are pushing for the ownership of women because when someone lives with the mentality that he has to carry all your responsibility and improve your life, he develops the mindset that he owns you, because you're not doing anything for him.
The advice you give to young boys are meant to be given to parents. Let us encourage responsible parenting. The whole point of relationship is to love, not to parent. Young men are already under a lot of financial pressure. Parenting is a live time responsibility. You don't retire from it.
Having said that, I'm always conscious of privilege. Not every parent has the financial capacity to train their kids to the highest level. If you willingly choose to date someone, you have a responsibility to them to love and to cherish, and that includes investing in their growth. If you choose an uneducated, partly educated, 1st degree holder, you can make the best investment that improves your partner and the overall wellbeing of the home because when your partner wins, you win. The major problem with that tweet is that, even by omission, we are teaching women that it is not their responsibility to invest in men. Woman also have a responsibility to invest in their man's growth and to do regular shopping for them. You can't tell the man to invest in his woman's education be suse he will benefit from it, while not telling women the same thing. Will the woman not benefit from investing in her man?
To love is to GIVE love and to RECEIVE love. Please love by GIVING and TAKING.
- Chimamanda Adichie
We need to teach NIGERIAN women to love and to give, because most relationships are already one sided and unrequited. That is not love.
@Ifeanyi374185 nigerians no dey use eye see pastor, whether real o, fake o, old o, young o, as long as say he dey make waves, them go gather in their numbers
I can see the future very clearly.
I see a South East where millions of children are no longer educated merely to pass examinations, but to build things the world will buy.
I see 13- and 14-year-olds building toys for Christmas, designing automated home systems, creating energy solutions, manufacturing electronics, solving security issues through technology and building drones in their hundreds of thousands to solve real African problems.
And then something extraordinary will happen: children will become creators of wealth before they are old enough to look for jobs. Some will become multimillionaires as teenagers, not from speculation, but from knowledge, engineering and solving real problems.
This is bigger than education.
We are laying the foundation for an industrial revolution.
We are raising a generation that will not look at technology and ask, โWhere can we import this from?โ
They will ask, โHow can we build it ourselves?โ
I can already feel this wave beginning. The energy is building. The mindset is changing. And once millions of young minds discover that mathematics, science and engineering give them the power to create, it will be incredibly difficult to stop them.
So I will say this now, while it is still early:
Start investing in the South East.
A generation of builders is coming.
And they are going to build things Africa has never seen before.
You women never write books about how to make money, build yourself, grow your career, or improve your life. Itโs always how to h8te men, how to deal with men, how to survive men, how husbands are useless.
For people who claim to h8te men, you talk about men A LOT.
That aside, there is no way Iโm spending my money on a book called โHusband Is Useless.โ
I havenโt even experienced marriage yet. You want me to spend my money reading a book that is basically telling me to enter marriage already expecting my husband to be useless? Ainโt no way Iโm doing that shiiii.
But you know your target audience sha.
I love journalists like this ๐๐๐
This is how you grill lunatic political parasites whose only source of livelihood is to lick the dripping anus of politicians.
Don't glorify entrepreneurs who cannot write a story of how they built their business empire.
Nigeria is a country where business men who share their failures are not seen as the real deal!
Let me encourage you. If you are just starting out life with a career or a business, please opt for the slow and steady lane. Hard-work, perseverance and showing up consistently will earn you success.
@yabaleftonline Mr Talk and Do indeed. ๐ But what happened to the people who believed in the โtalkโ that got you there? Davido fought for you, only for you to turn around and endorse Tinubu. Politics is something else.
Davido literally put his voice, influence and political capital on the line to help his uncle win. He fought for a cause he believed in and got people to believe in it too.
Now the same uncle publicly endorsed Tinubu for 2027.
This is why people get cynical about politics. You ask ordinary people to stand with you, they fight with you, believe in you and vote for you โ then you get into office and suddenly the principles that got you there become negotiable.
Politics is not a movie. But damn, some plot twists are painful.