If You're Going To Enjoy Your Marriage, Beg Your Spouse
It's Not A Sign Of Weakness, It's A Sign Of Maturity
- Rev. Samson Ajetomobi
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Many nurses I met here in the uk were the one financing their home for the first few years of their relocation.
These are people who did not pay rent while in Nigeria.
These are people whose husbands were engineers, doctors, Lecturers in Nigeria but after relocation had to do menial jobs ti sustain the family.
The idea of “50/50 in marriage” sounds fair, modern, and balanced, but in real life, it’s one of the biggest fallacies we keep spreading.
Marriage has never worked on perfect arithmetic. It works on capacity, season, and sacrifice…not percentages.
Some days one partner will give 80 while the other gives 20.
Some seasons, one person will be strong, and the other will be fighting silent battles.
Some moments, one will carry the emotional weight, financial burden, or household responsibilities because the other is simply drained.
And that’s not failure.
That is marriage.
The truth is simple: no human being can wake up every day and contribute exactly “50.” People get tired. People get sick. People break down emotionally. People lose jobs. Life shifts. Energy fluctuates.
A healthy marriage is not two people calculating what the other has done, it is two people who are committed to showing up fully in whatever capacity they have each day.
Today you may carry your partner.
Tomorrow they may carry you.
Balance is achieved over time, not in one moment.
And here’s another reality people avoid:
Sometimes the person who is giving “30” is actually giving 100% of what they have in that season. And the partner giving “70” also gives because they can at that moment. That is partnership, not exploitation.
The people who survive marriage long-term understand one thing clearly:
Marriage is not 50/50. Marriage is 100/100.
Two people committed to giving their best, not an equal fraction, but a full effort according to their ability, their health, their season, and their reality.
When you insist on 50/50, you reduce marriage to a business contract.
When you understand 100/100, you embrace marriage as a covenant, a daily decision to love, support, and show up.
Some days you will be the one lifting.
Some days you will be the one leaning.
And that is perfectly fine.
Anyone who wants a mathematical marriage will never experience a meaningful one. Love has never been about counting. It has always been about giving.
“My name is Bukayo Moses Ayoyinka Temidayo Saka. I am very proud of it. Both my parents grew up in Nigeria, so many of their values have been instilled in me”
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Stop explaining your big dream to small minds.
There is a reason Rolls-Royce left the car shows for airshows and yacht decks.
Because in those spaces,
the price of a Rolls-Royce is not threatening, it is expected.
Some rooms can't handle certain visions.
What earns you silence there,
will get you a standing ovation in another.
So instead of arguing,
go where your value is seen.
Find people who have been where you are going,
and speak in spaces where your language is understood.
Because brilliance does not need convincing.
It just needs the right audience.
And if you have not found that room yet,
keep searching. It is surely out there.
Now let's go have a great week.
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There are no words good enough to express the horror of this.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is a blow to everything Western civilization stands for: open discourse, robust debate and peaceful dissent. He lived his life by those very principles, no matter the danger it put him in.
This may have happened far from our shores, but the rising intolerance of opposing views affects us all. We cannot turn a blind eye to it.
My thoughts are with Charlie’s family, his wife Erika, and their children.
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Nothing tightens a Nigerian’s mouth faster than the fear that you might succeed quicker than they did.
It’s not just silence. It’s a strategy. And more often than not, it’s disguised as humility, caution, or the ever-familiar “it is well.” But underneath, it’s the old instinct to protect the struggle and guard the glory. Because if you didn’t bleed for it, you haven’t earned it.
So when you ask them to share the name of a sponsoring company, it’s not just a question. It’s a threat. A threat to the myth that their journey was exceptional. If they hand you a shortcut, what happens to the prestige of the long road? The years of waiting and rejection, the near-deportation stories they tell at parties. If you get it quickly, what does that say about them?
That’s where the “I better pass my neighbor” spirit creeps in. It’s not always loud, but it’s there. In the vague replies, the awkward silences, the “it is well” that shuts the door without sounding cruel. Some of them genuinely believe that if too many people come through the same route, it will close. The room will get smaller. That their own story will lose weight.
And I get it. When you’ve had to fight for everything, it’s hard to believe anything should come easy for someone else. But there’s a difference between protecting your path and hoarding the map.
At some point, you have to decide what kind of elder you want to be. The one who makes it easier for others or the one who needs it to stay hard, so your survival feels more noble.
You cannot be both.
@DrJoeAbah Even if the message was inspired by events in the west, I hope our countrymen can take important lessons from it.
Power is negotiated. Your relevance is determined by your ability to play the waiting game. It takes time. And strategy. Not big and splendid talks.