– Love is sweet, but consistency is sweeter. Pay attention to patterns, not promises.
– Marriage will not magically change a person. What you see now is the “edited version.”
– You will still feel lonely sometimes, even with a ring on your finger.
– Communication is not just talking, it’s being understood. There’s a difference.
– Some days, it won’t feel like love. It will feel like work. Real work.
– Don’t ignore small red flags because you’re excited. They don’t disappear, they grow.
– Financial compatibility matters more than vibes. Love does not pay bills.
– You need a life outside your partner. Don’t lose yourself trying to keep someone.
– Respect will carry your marriage longer than feelings will.
– You will argue, a lot more than you think. Learn how to fight without destroying each other.
– Marriage will reveal parts of you that you didn’t even know existed.
– Not everything should be tolerated in the name of “endurance.”
– Sometimes, you will give more. Sometimes, you will feel like you’re the only one trying.
– Your partner’s family can either be your biggest support, or your biggest stress.
– Peace of mind is more important than being married. Choose wisely.
– Your sex life will change. Stress, children, money, emotions, everything shows up in the bedroom.
– Attraction needs maintenance. Effort doesn’t end after the wedding.
– Sometimes you will want it more than your partner… sometimes less. That gap can cause real tension.
– “Duty sex��� will slowly kill connection. Intimacy should not feel like an obligation.
– You can love someone deeply and still be sexually incompatible. Don’t ignore that.
– If there’s no emotional safety, physical intimacy will suffer. Every time.
– If one person is always cooking and the other is always expecting, resentment will grow quietly.
– You will argue about what to eat more times than you expect. It’s never really about the food.
– Learn each other’s food habits early. Hunger can turn small issues into big fights.
– Sometimes, cooking will feel like love… other times, it will feel like pressure.
– Marriage will test your standards. The things you said you’d never accept? Life will ask you again.
– Compatibility is not just about love, it’s about values, habits, and how you both handle hard times.
– You cannot fix a broken person with commitment. Marriage is not rehabilitation.
– Sometimes, the hardest truth: love alone is not enough to sustain a healthy marriage.
As a man,
Before you decide to marry a wife, please try to loosen the grip your mother holds on you.
Let your mother know where your priority would lie, and stand by it.
Your mother is your father's wife.
Respect & honor her, but protect your wife from her and vice versa.
Your matrimonial home is your wife's territory.
If you don't loosen the grip, your mother will encroach on it.
AJD.
BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED, UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS:
1. Love is the beginning of marriage, not the whole of it
2. Marry someone whose worst day you can still respect
3. Financial incompatibility destroys more marriages than infidelity
4. Unspoken expectations are future resentments in waiting
5. Know how they handle conflict before you handle life together
6. Marriage does not fix a broken person, it reveals them
7. Meet their family and pay attention, not just visit
8. Discuss children, faith, and money before the wedding, not after
9. Shared values matter more than shared interests
10. A person who disrespects their parents will eventually disrespect you
11. Watch how they treat people who can do nothing for them
12. Do not marry potential, marry the person standing in front of you
13. Loneliness inside a marriage is worse than loneliness alone
14. Know their relationship with money, it will become your relationship too
15. The person you marry is not who you fall in love with, it is who you choose daily
I saw a tweet where someone said they regret being a parent, and I laughed. Not because life with children is easy, but because that kind of regret can only come from measuring parenthood with the wrong tools.
Parenthood is not a convenience. It is not a lifestyle upgrade. It is not something you evaluate with free time, sleep, or disposable income. It is purpose in its rawest form.
Being a parent matters because it forces you out of yourself. For the first time, your decisions are no longer centered on comfort, ego, or speed, but on legacy. You begin to think in decades instead of moments. You learn patience not as a concept but as a daily discipline. You understand sacrifice not as loss, but as love made practical.
Children humble you. They expose your flaws and invite you to become better than you were yesterday. They teach you responsibility without applause and love without conditions. In raising them, you confront your own upbringing, heal old wounds, and choose what ends with you.
Parenthood also anchors society. Every value we claim to care about is preserved or lost in the home. Kindness, resilience, empathy, discipline, faith, curiosity. These are not learned from tweets or trends. They are transmitted, quietly, from parent to child.
Yes, it is demanding. Yes, it stretches you. But the beauty of parenthood is that it gives life meaning beyond self. Long after the noise fades and achievements blur, what remains is who you raised, how you loved, and what you passed on.
Some things are too sacred to be reduced to regret. Parenthood is one of them.
Brother, listen carefully because this is one of those truths men learn late and usually the hard way.
Success changes the temperature of every room, especially inside the family.
When one man rises faster than his blood, love quietly mixes with envy and silence does the rest.
A brother can smile in daylight and still feel small when he goes home at night.
It is not a sin to win, but it is foolish to assume everyone is cheering for the winner.
Pride hurts more when the comparison is close, and blood makes the comparison constant.
A struggling man hears his wife talk, and her words sit in his head long after dinner.
Help given too often stops feeling like kindness and starts feeling like obligation.
No grown man enjoys receiving help that reminds him he is behind.
Respect dies when assistance turns into expectation.
This is why quiet boundaries protect relationships better than loud generosity.
A man must guard what he builds without shame or apology.
Give when the heart is clean, not when guilt or pressure is driving the hand.
Never use help as leverage and never expect gratitude to last forever.
Some people clap while secretly waiting for the fall.
Wisdom is knowing when to love from a distance and still sleep peacefully at night.
Modern women’s laziness is increasingly being rebranded as “empowerment.”
Instead of honestly admitting that they don’t like cooking , they shame men who value women who can cook.
Instead of admitting they don’t like cleaning or maintaining a home cause they are lazy, they label men who want those traits as “oppressors” and call basic household responsibility “slavery.”
Instead of being honest that many of them are entering marriage primarily for financial provision…while already planning to withdraw intimacy later…they shame men who expect sex within marriage by inventing exaggerated or distorted narratives around “marital rape” and misuse serious terms to shut down discussion.
In every case, the pattern is the same:
Rather than accepting personal disinterest or laziness, they attack men’s preferences.
Men are not forcing anyone. Men are choosing. And that is the real issue.
They don’t want to be excluded from the dating and marriage market, so instead of improving themselves or being honest about what they offer, they attempt to redefine standards and shame men into lowering expectations. When that fails, they resort to insults, moral posturing, and social pressure.
This is also why they react so aggressively when they see women happily cooking, cleaning, respecting their husbands, and building families. It threatens the narrative. A woman who willingly does these things proves that no one is being “forced.” She exposes the truth: some women simply don’t want to contribute in those ways.
And that reality is uncomfortable, because it highlights choice…not oppression.
What frustrates them is not patriarchy…it’s competition.
Privilege blinds because it is the nature of privileges to blind.
- Chimamanda Adichie
Sometimes 9ja rich people are the problem with family related discourse. You probably earn N20m a month and your wife makes N1m monthly. Your monthly income exceeds her annual income. It is fine if you cover every financial expenses in the house. You earn more than you need.
Where it gets ridiculous is using your standard to advise other men in a country where over 90% earn less than N500k monthly. You expect someone that earns N400k to carry all the bills in his house when he could use the help from his wife that earns N200k or N700k. What is the point of family if money is more important than the union? Joining income may not even suffice to carry all the bills as the family still have to manage, but you want to worsen the situation by expecting the man to carry all the bills. What exactly is the woman using money for that is more important than family?
Even in privileges, it is okay to let madam use her money in sorting some stuff in the home because that is what people in love do. It is good for their heart, and when your money is being committed to a cause, your heart is even more rooted in it. Stopndeçrivi g women of the opportunity to love. People who love you would not let you do that.
I dont know which is worse, the men who are fighting so hard to not be loved by their women to protect t their weak ego, or the women who are fighting with their life to not love their men and invest in their home home or money is more important to them than family. In the end, we will all accept the love we think we deserve.
There is no way two adults from different homes, upbringing & experiences would come together to cohabit or be married as a man & a woman, & they'll not have a fight, quarrel or arguments.
And it starts from relationships.
If you're not ready to sow the pains, then you do not deserve to reap from the joy.
Relationship frictions are not necessarily red flags.
What is a red flag is extreme violence, threat to life, and when there is more quarrels than peace.
Do not go into any relationship, hoping that it will always be peaceful.
Otherwise, you're in a relationship where you're either pretending, not being yourself or burying the dirts under the rug to make the living room look beautiful.
Your partner must provoke you.
Your partner will test your resolve, & sometimes, do the unexpected.
This is how you train each other to learn how to tolerate yourselves.
And then, you snap out of it, and keep pushing.
I have always taught that the first 5 years of marriage is mostly the difficult phase.
Even if you cohabited during your relationship.
But what cohabitation will teach you, is experience.
Somethings you'd experience within your first 5 years in marriage, may not be new to you.
And you'd not have to be going out of your matrimonial homes to seek for help from "outsiders" at the slightest provocation.
Your wife may tear your boxers one day.
Your wife may seize your car keys or block the door so that you would not go out.
Your wife may refuse to cook your meal or serve you, even if she has cooked your meal.
Your wife may annoy you for nothing.
You as a man must learn tolerance, & learn that not all emotional outbursts would lead to physical violence.
Your husband may hit you out of anger.
Your husband may refuse to eat your food because you annoyed him.
Your husband may go out of the house, refuse to pick your calls, & come back very late, without responding to your greeting.
Your husband may cheat on you, too.
You as the wife, must find ways to manipulate him in a healthy way, use your feminine energy, and show him that you're still his queen, regardless.
Learn how to keep quiet when he's angry.
And learn how to speak when he's calm.
When you see couples celebrating 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 years of marriage, they're not telling you that it has been all rosy through the years.
They're telling you that they have persevered, tolerated each other and made sacrifices and compromises for each other.
Stop thinking that they performed magic.
They did not.
And even if those people are your parents, you do not know their real struggles.
What you know is what they decided to show you.
Go and get married, and see if you would do better than they did.
End.
@MattyFC__ I understand the fact that y'all want players to fight for the badge, if he remains on the pitch and ends up spending more time before returning from injury, y'all would still come for his head
@UTDKara As much as I'd want dalot out of the team permanently, today's game had nothing to do with him. Sesko not taking his chances, no one closing down richarlison for the second goal and at the death United getting a draw after being reduced to 10 men.... Let's stop being toxic fans
Most humans will achieve some level of financial stability & independence, from their late 20s & 30s.
It's not a crime or curse, if you're very young & broke, or poor.
Tow the path of legitimacy & honesty.
Use your teens & early 20s to plan your future.
That suffering that you want to quickly escape from a very young age, will meet you at your older age.
Not everyone would be rich.
Not everyone will own a car or a big house.
Not everyone would be able to travel the world, whenever or however they wish.
But what you learnt & did when you were very young, will put food on your table, shelter above your head, according to your capacity.
As long as you're not a thief, no one can shame you for your legitimate hustle.
And you have equal right & dignity like every other legitimate human, even if they're richer, more influential or famous.
Once you're able to conquer greed, everything about illegitimacy would not move you.
Do not forget...
Everything that we're all working or fighting for, will no longer be ours, once we die.
And death is inevitable.
End.
@Mbahdeyforyou If he scored and united lost the game, what are you all gonna say.... Win or Draw y'all still gonna point out the negatives... Today it's sesko, tomorrow it's gonna be the formation, next time it's gonna be the board. SMH 🤦🏾♂️