A mentally stable and mature man will never pursue you endlessly or cajole you into dating him. If he ask you out and you say you're not interested, he moves on like you never exist.
One of the leading causes of divorce in America is Finances! Why would a woman "submit" her salary to her spouse and vice versa. Marriage should not make you lose your individuality. You build a home together with selflessness, love & care.
Understand that there’s difference between wanting a supportive partner and being a 50:50man. A 50:50man is an irresponsible man and I won’t even wish such man on a woman i dislike.
My ex is from Benin. I don’t want to mention names, but I’m sure he will see this.
Here’s to saying, you are one of the best persons that life gave me. You supported me, loved me, cared for me and prayed for me. I’m happy that life is beginning to favor you, you deserve it.
It is the year 1999. You are 8 years old at a birthday party. Evi Edna’s “Happy Birthday” is playing loudly. You’re eating party jollof & fried meat from a plastic blue plate. They hand you a cold bottle of Gold Spot and you think to yourself, “It can’t get better than this.”
If you wake up on a Monday morning and enter a train in London and its environs, you can hardly find two people talking to each other. Everyone avoids eye contact. There is silence. The only noise you hear is the choo choo-ing of the train. Very little human interaction.
The same thing happens on buses and the streets. It is as if people have been put in a trance-like state, and they become zombies heading off to different workplaces doing work that they don't like to get the money that they like. In fact, you will see the rat race on steroids.
Nobody has time for you. Each person is wrapped up in themselves. This cycle is repeated every working day. And then, at four in the evening, there will be a wave of people, all stoic and cold, moving in the other direction. Very soon, you find that it is hard to make friends. And even if it is possible, you may not be able to maintain friendships, as the work commute takes its toll on you.
As an African immigrant, this is your first culture shock. Then you become part of the system. You get a job, and your life revolves around it. You buy a house, and you take up a second job because the mortgage is something else.
Then your biological mother visits from Nigeria, and you can't even spend five unbroken hours with her, because you have to go to your second job soon after you finished your first job. You are not even aware that you have become more committed to the rat race than to your family.
And you are thirty. You will do this for the next thirty five years. Yes, you have a lot of things that people back in Africa do not have. But is life not more than things?
Don't take for granted the warmth, noise, the hustle and bustle, and the human connection you get in Africa. Even in a bus in Lagos, commuters are not strangers to each other. In the ninety minutes it takes for them to get to their destinations, they will 'gist' and have more interactions than you have had with your English neighbour since you moved next door to him.
Those are the little things that make life worth living, not material possessions that possess you to the extent that to keep them, you must stop living and become another fixture of the rat race.
What did the philosopher say again? Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!
If you japa, you may end up trading relational wealth for economic prosperity. And in the evening of your life, you may ask yourself, 'What did it profit me to gain the whole world and lose my soul to the rat race?'
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<23 girls are the highest no of cheats.
A lot are hungry, adventurous & dishonest.
They can cheat easily on you, for things as cheap as food, alcohol airtime & movie tickets.
If you can't stand heartbreak, avoid anything serious with them.
Except you feel yours is diff.
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