You are a man. A husband of one wife.
You love your wife and children. Congratulations!
But:
Even when you have a joint account with your wife: Make sure you have a bank account known only to you, where you keep at least 25% of your liquid cash. You can include that in your will so it will not be lost. But while you are alive, do not be at the mercy of your wife and children.
I heard of a man who had a joint account with the wife. They had above N15 million naira in the account. This was in the 2000s.
The man was already nearing retirement age.
One day, he went to withdraw from the account and was told that there was no money in the account. He did not believe them. An account that has over N15 million. They checked and told him his wife withdrew all the money.
This was when there was no BVN. When you can open an account with any name. So no trace of the movement of the money.
He confronted the wife, she agreed she withdrew the money and insisted she would not return the money.
Members of both families got involved. The wife was asked to at least return half of the money as the money belonged to both of them, she refused.
What was her reason for clearing the account?
That she believes her husband wants to marry another wife.
So, after exhausting his productive years saving for his retirement, the man became a destitute in his old age.
He could not fight the wife. He had no money to fight.
So:
Love your wife.
Love your children.
But do not forget to love yourself.
“I drive Uber on the night shift. You meet all kinds. Drunks, lovers, tired nurses. At 2 AM, I picked up a guy from a hospital. He got in the back, looking shell-shocked. Didn't say a word. We drove in silence for ten minutes. Then I heard a sniffle. I glanced in the rearview. He was staring out the window, tears streaming down his face. "Rough night?" I asked quietly. "My wife," he choked out. "She just... the cancer. She's gone." My heart stopped. I turned off the meter. "I'm not taking you home yet," I said. He looked up, confused. "What?" "You can't go to an empty house right now. Not yet." I pulled into an all-night diner. "Come on. Coffee and pie. On me." He hesitated, then nodded. We sat in that booth for three hours. He told me about her laugh. How they met. How she hated peas. I just listened. When I finally dropped him off at 6 AM, the sun was coming up. He shook my hand. "Thank you," he said. "For not making me be alone in the dark." I didn't make a dime that night. But it was the most important drive of my life.”
~Shihaan Hussain
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.
This is how it will play out if these clowns actually follow through with the threat.
They will fly in and continuously carpet bomb everywhere identified as a terrorist hideout, not distinguishing between innocent and criminals, or Christian from Muslim.
Like Gaza, they will level major cities in the North into rubble. This will create a swarm of refugees that will overwhelm governance systems - assuming any national government infrastructure still exists.
The ripple effects of these will spread across West Africa and even Southern Nigeria will become overwhelmed by an influx of people.
After the bombing stops and the Americans move on, the real terrorists who would have hidden in the Sahel countries throughout will come back into what remains of Northern Nigeria and form strongholds and local governments. In a short time, the US govt will unofficially recognise these Muslim warlords as legitimate govts and start collaborating with them for mining and other local resource rights. And the rest of the world will forget all these started with saving Christians and move on.
Apparently ASML DUV machines that China has to make their chips recently broke down. They called the Dutch company for help repairing it. ASML sent some techs. They discovered that the Chinese broke the machine when they disassembled it and tried to put it back together. 1/
1. As soon as big money enters your account, buy things in bulk - Cook in bulk, data, groceries, clothes, foodstuff. You are spending more to save even more later.
2. If you CAN’T do anything about it, don’t stress yourself about it. Worrying over things that are out of your control is a waste of time.
3. If you want to really go far in life, don’t womanize. It is one of the most expensive hobbies with little to no ROI. Not worth it.
4. Call your parents, siblings and friends whenever they cross your mind. It is the universe telling you something.
5. Don’t try to change people, instead change people. Read that again.
6. You are nobody’s last hope. Say NO as often as you can if it is inconvenient for you.
7. Fight your addictions early. The habit and lifestyle you build in your 20s plays a huge role in how long you’ll live on earth.
8. Don’t let money finish from your hand. It is hard but try.
9. Don’t date when you are struggling, in a bad shape or in debt.
10. Always have it at the back of your mind that you are on your own and nobody is coming to save you when things get tough. Choose you unapologetically.
If CA was Nigeria
1. Presidential spokesperson says, “Fires happen everywhere”
2. The FG has distributed three trailers of rice
3. Police warn against demonstrations seeking compensation for burnt homes
4. The governor says many homes didn't have CofO
5. Details emerge of how an allocation to Fire prevention was misappropriated
6. Senate commends Governor, condemns tweets of mischief makers
7. The House asks for the establishment of a Fire Ministry with a tax on Bitcoin
8. Churches leaders call for prayers and calm,
9. FG sets up victim fund, Dangote and others donate N200b
10. Set a panel of inquiry to investigate immediate and remote causes of the wildfire.
11. CAN calls for three days of fasting and prayers. Visits the President to console him