Dear Husband,
A woman does not decide to be your wife and choose to be faithful because you are Mr. Perfect. She is faithful because she is a woman of character.
She chooses you every day because she honours her vows, even on the days you are difficult to love. She protects your home because that is the kind of woman she decided to become, it's not because you have never given her reasons to do otherwise.
But don't mistake her character for a reason to become careless.
Don't assume that because she is not the type to cheat, she no longer needs your affection and don't believe that because she stays, she no longer needs to be pursued.
A woman can remain loyal while slowly withdrawing her heart.
Nature does not tolerate empty spaces. If you stop investing in your marriage, she may not seek another man, as a lot of people are quick to think, but she will find somewhere else to pour herself. She may bury herself in work, lose herself in motherhood, devote herself to church or build a life where you are no longer at the centre of her joy.
One day, you may wake up to realise that she is still your wife, but no longer your closest companion.
Don't let it get that far. It doesn't have to.
Listen when she speaks, especially when her words make you uncomfortable. Notice the sacrifices she no longer mentions. Thank her for the things that have become so normal you barely see them anymore.
Hold her hand for no reason. Laugh with her. Pray with her. Date her long after the wedding. Make memories she will still smile about twenty years from now.
Become the safest place she knows.
A loyal wife is one of God's greatest gifts to a man, but even the strongest marriages do not thrive on loyalty alone.
Strong marriages thrive on intentional love, mutual honour, daily kindness and the decision to keep choosing each other every single day.
Meet her loyalty with your own.
Meet her commitment with presence.
Meet her love with firm leadership that serves, not one that controls.
Do that consistently, and your marriage will become a place where two imperfect people make each other feel secure in a world that offers very little certainty.
Something many people spend a lifetime searching for.
Have an amazing Sunday.
Forgive everyone for the pain they've caused, for the suffering they left you with.
Forgive them for their cruel words, their selfishness, their betrayal.
Forgive them for abandoning you, for making you cry, for failing to understand you.
Forgive them for doubting you, for not standing by your side when you needed them the most.
Forgive them for not treating you right as you treated them.
Please forgive & be at peace with yourself. Mind you, Forgiveness doesn't equates to reconnection.
Sexual Market Value, Divorce, and the Nigerian Couple: A Market Analysis
The SMV Framework
Sir Dickson's thesis on Sexual Market Value (SMV) posits that human sexuality operates like any other commodity market, labour, capital, or goods, where exchange occurs based on perceived value, and that perceived value is heavily indexed to age. Specifically, a woman's sexual desirability peaks in youth and declines with age, while a man's desirability peaks later, rising in proportion to his financial and social status. This asymmetry in the timing of peak value between the sexes is the engine that drives the market's dysfunction.
This is not mere theory, the evidence is visible in the growing population of unmarried Nigerian women aged 30 - 40, both in Nigeria and in the UK diaspora, a demographic reality that signals a structural breakdown in how matches are being made and sustained.
The Market's Two Transactions: Lease vs. Purchase
I expound on Sir Dickson's framework to distinguish two modes of participation in this market:
A. Leasing: short-term arrangements (flings, situationships, casual relationships) where value is exchanged temporarily, with no expectation of permanence.
B. Outright Purchase: marriage, where a man makes a permanent, legally binding acquisition, historically formalised through bride price and the biblical injunction that "a man shall leave his father's house" to seek a wife.
The critical insight, and the one that connects directly to divorce, is that these two transactions are governed by entirely different motivations, yet, they draw from the same pool of participants, and crucially, they do not happen simultaneously for men and women.
The Timing Mismatch: The Root of Divorce
Consider the archetypical case: a 33-year-old Nigerian man marrying a 32-year-old Nigerian woman.
Her journey through the market:
In her early-to-mid twenties, she was at peak SMV. Older, financially established men - "sugar daddies" and "big bros" - leased her commodity. These men, having already climbed the economic ladder, concealed the struggle behind gifts: phones, chocolates, trips, and attention. To her young mind, this generosity was maturity. She had no reference point for the years of grinding that produced it. What she absorbed instead was a standard - a baseline expectation of what men do, what men provide, and how men treat women. By 32, she carries multiple body counts, a finely tuned sense of entitlement, and a definition of male maturity that was written by men who were 15โ20 years ahead of where her future husband currently stands.
His journey through the market:
Culture and biology conspired against his early participation. He was socialised to understand that access to the market is conditional on financial capacity, that is, without money, he would receive, at best, reluctant and loveless engagement (pity fuck). So he delayed, focused on building, and by 33, he is stable enough to participate meaningfully. But rather than leasing, which would have been the rational market entry point, he goes directly to purchase. He marries.
The collision:
Inside the marriage, she unconsciously benchmarks him against the men of her leasing years. He is found wanting, not because he is inadequate in absolute terms, but because he is being compared to men who were decades ahead of him when she knew them. She reads his stage of development as immaturity. He reads her expectations as unreasonable. When he raises the question of shared financial responsibility in the home, she meets it with contempt, because the men in her formative years never asked her to split anything.
She married to exit the market, He married believing he had finally entered it. Both are disappointed, and the divorce follows.
I will never take you people who call yourselves men that need a woman to push you before you try to succeed or level up seriously.
On your own, why will you not even want the good things of life?. Why don't you want to be the best version of yourself?.
Do you even know the number of men who listened to their wives, tried this same thing and did not ever recover from it?.
God go tell men to lead their homes, they will submit their authority to their wives and let the woman be telling them how to move to neighborhoods they cannot afford.
Another nonsense that needs to be debunked is this idea that you need to leave your comfort zone to achieve greatness.
An uninspiring and lazy person will remain that way even if he moves to New York. You either want to succeed or you don't. Its a personal decision that has absolutely nothing to do with where you keep your head at night or whether you have 3HP AC in your room.
After I had an affair, my husband never touched me again. For eighteen years, we lived like strangers, until a post-retirement physical exam when what the doctor said made me break down on the spotโฆโฆโฆ
10 LIFE HACKS/ADVICES MANY OF YOU PROBABLY NEED AND SHOULD KNOW FROM EARLY ADULTHOOD:
1. Life is much better when no one knows anything about you.
2. Never force anyone to choose you. Never beg to be loved. Choose genuineness and naturalness.
3. If you don't work to build your own dream, someone will hire you and use you as a tool for achieving theirs.
4. Free yourself from the chains of society's advice. Most of them have no idea what they are doing.
5. Your are at peace with yourself when you mind your own business.
6. Life WON'T wait for you to be okay. Get up from your comfort zone and keep pushing.
7. Master your emotions. A clear and calm mind can handle any situation.
8. You need to take people for who they are, not want you want them to be. This way, you avoid disappointment and learn to live in harmony with your environment. You become happier.
9. Make sure you take care of yourself cosif anything happens to you, the world would move on.
10. Be smart enough to create your opportunities. Don't wait for them to come to you. Working to create them is a form of PRAYER which will be answered someday.
Spread this if you found it helpful. Someone might need it on their journey to maturity.
Let me enlighten you all on something you wouldn't be taught ANYWHERE. This might shock many of you who would care to read.... but read if you would. Scroll past if you won't. Your decision.
Men were originally designed by the Creator to be physical protectors of women and the physical world, providers, they were built for it all. This is why they are the more rugged gender.
To fulfill this, the man was wired to have more emotional, mental and physical strength while woman was the much finer, delicate and spiritual gender, so that man, in his daily bustling to physically transform this world into a heaven on earth through his nature, he would always gaze at woman and be reminded of the home where he came from, never to forget the path that leads home while he hustles.
Any man who is WEAK (mentally, emotionally or physically) therefore naturally CANNOT be respected by woman, even if she wouldn't know why and even if she temporarily pretends to respect him.....cos her spirit knows and senses the truth, what should be.
But woman herself, in her role, also became something else, totally oppositely different from what was originally designed, orchestrated by no other mischievous being than LUCIFER himself.
All Lucifer wanted to prove to the Almighty during his assignment to enlighten man (Yes, he was the Prince of Enlightenment and this is why he was called Son of the Morning or the Morning Star, ages ago) was that He (the Almighty) was being TOO PATIENT and Merciful with these creatures (humans).
In his opinion, the Almighty was supposed to let the strong humans who passed his post enlightenment test go back to paradise and let the "disgustingly" weak ones perish.
He was impatient and didn't understand Divine Omniscient Love and therefore got angry with his Creator's rejection of his request. He therefore took laws into his own hands and cut off communication with the heights where he came from, with the Almighty. He stopped listening to instructions to have patience with these creatures of Creation.
Naturally, with his new attitude and disconnection from his source, he became denser and sank below with each move and decision he made afterwards. Till he sank to unimaginable depths. But he still thinks he is right and the Almighty is wrong. All he wants is to prove his point and laugh at the Almighty.
But Divine Omniscience? Nothing can beat it.
So, as a crafty and intelligent Being he was, Lucifer used WOMAN. The more sensitive and psychic of the species. Instead of that loving and true enlightenment, he decided to make woman (who was initially totally innocent and unaware), aware of her PHYSICAL CHARM on men and how she can appropriate it towards controlling men and how she can draw his attention to her and make him do anything she wishes and have everything enjoyable on earth through him. This was never the plan.
Woman tried it. It worked. She tasted the strategy and she loved it. She continued in it and man was too weak to say NO! He ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. THE APPLE. The deadly APPLE!
This is the meaning of the allegorical story told in the Bible and this is gow the fall of man took an unprecedented speed and thickened till today.
Woman and Man built on the trigger that Lucifer made and took it to depths that even Lucifer didn't expect. He was unexpectedly successful as he feels satisfied that he is making his point to God on how undeserving we are of patience and love.
All he needed to do was pick woman and turn her. The rest was history. But Lucifer still doesn't understand Divine Omnipotence and Omniscience. Also, Lucifer knows his fate and his judgment but he has sworn that he is not going down alone.
I would have gone into the consequences of everything and how it all ends but this would deviate far from the context in which i am responding to.
If you would read at all, try to picture this:
There are actually millions of planets in our solar system, so science will continue to find new planets till it gets exhausted.
All the planets with the sun, stars and moon, make up a SOLAR SYSTEM and there are BILLIONS of solar systems in one GALAXY. These make up the Milky Way.
There are Trillions of Galaxies in ONE UNIVERSE andโฆ..there are actually SEVEN UNIVERSES.
These seven universes lie only in one section of the world of physical gross matter which concerns our human species alone and there are billions of planes in Gross Matter.
There is a Being who is placed in charge of all of these, up to the smallest spec of dust. He is the reason everything is sustained in harmony ans kept alive and operate the way they do, from planets to planes to stars and moons and oceans currents to galaxies etc.
When he was given the charge by the Almighty to take responsibility for these planes, he got up at the Heights and when he stood up, everything i have described above, revolved AROUND HIS BELT!
His name - MERCURY! And this is one of the smallest servants of the Almighty.
Try to picture man in all of this, a creature who is still today, trying to exhaust the knowledge of the Ocean bodies of his little earthโฆ..then try to picture where his opinion stands in all of these, then imagine him trying to deny the existence of the Almighty cos his little brain cannot see Him.