There is something some of you do that is very disturbing.
Because you have a cleaner that comes around twice a week, you eat food and you stash the plate for days till the cleaner comes around. You don't clean up your personal space till the cleaner comes around. Your bed is always unmade and you house dirty till the cleaner comes. Why do you need someone else to wash your underwear if you are not actually mad?
This thing is just common sense and hygiene. Wash your plates immediately after eating. Clean up your kitchen always. Flush your toilets properly and keep it clean. Keep your house in order, you're the one living in it. When your cleaner comes, she can do general cleaning. You don't have to be a pig just because you're paying someone to clean. I also have a cleaner but my house is always neat and organized. I am the one living in it.
You need to do better. Money will not fix the values you don't have.
I'm not even going to address this from the angle of a host. Na host get him house. If they dont want you doing anything, no wahala.
My own question is, how are you comfortably useless as a guest? It is not like you are making yourself useful and they keep stopping you everytime. You just choose to relax and be useless. God forbid una
I fit enter your house morning make I enter kitchen for afternoon.
Years back, I went to my friend's house in Glasgow for a few days. When I arrived the wife was at work. We were gisting and vibing and I asked him when madam was coming back, he said 7pm. I told him let's enter kitchen let me cook so she can rest when she comes back. We just continued our gist in the kitchen. Everybody was happy.
When I visit my close friend in Sheffield, after eating I wash the plates and clean up the kitchen. First time I did it, the wife was shocked and she told my friend what I did. That one burst laugh and said "you no know Wisdom na why. You see that kitchen, if him no clean am, him mind no go calm down." Everytime, I visited, she still got surprised that I did that until she got used to it. She was happy as it was big relief.
When I to my guy's house in Abuja, that one Monday do anything, so he doesn't allow me do anything. I want to clean, he says cleaner is here to do it. I want to cook, he has ordered food already. So when we go out, I paid for stuff. When I was leaving his house finally, I sent him money I would have spent in a hotel and he was very happy.
In UNIBEN, I went to my guy's house and that one no get food. "Food no dey? Make we enter market." Na me be guest but I went with him to market, supported the market runs and we cooked together.
It is getting too long , but I'll stop here. You people just like fighting for your right to be useless because the truth is that, you are actually useless.
If your wife has to constantly apologize to you even when you’re the one that did wrong, you’re an abusive person.
Massaging a man’s ego isn’t the same as emotional abuse.
How can you never admit that you were wrong for once?
If you dropped dead this minute, how many people will miss you?
Don't answer.
Just call them and chitchat with them.
Tell them how the world would have been awful if they didn't exist.
Make them feel special because you know they are.
Learn or you'll lose 🫵🏾
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
The post hits hard because that "wait your turn" promise is one of the most common deferred dreams in many Nigerian families.
Parents mean well when funds are tight, but turning education into a chain of obligations almost always plants seeds of resentment.
When the first child finally graduates and either can't (or won't) sponsor the next ones—due to job loss, marriage, starting their own family, or just plain selfishness—the whole system collapses.
The younger ones feel betrayed, the elder feels pressured or guilty, and parents end up shocked that their "plan" backfired into lifelong family tension.
You're right to call it out as a major trigger for entitlement and hatred. A healthier approach would be parents openly saying "we'll do our best for each child as resources allow" instead of creating a binding contract on a sibling's future.
That way expectations stay realistic, gratitude replaces obligation, and siblings support each other voluntarily rather than out of coercion. Breaking that cycle starts with honest conversations about money and responsibility early, before anyone is left waiting years for a promise that might never materialize.
Nobody feels so entitled to an in-laws resources like your wife's siblings.
In the same wavelength, noone disrespects you like your wife's siblings, if you lack resources.
But then, it's all solely dependent on the woman you married.
Learn or learn the hard way
My bro @iamklausenburg and I have a challenge. If this post reaches 100k likes and 10k retweets in 72 hours, I will transfer 1 million to him or any charity organization of his choice.
Good luck, brother 🙏🙏
First born or first born male should not be the next of kin
It is the child who has shown empathy, selflessness and ability to multiply what he or she has
Some children will just run everything into the ground or keep everything to themselves
A woman who got married very early to a good man will never understand that to find a "good" man you need to visit a prayer house.
They will mock women going to seminars or religious programs because they got their men on a silver platter.
Learn or learn the hard way.
And when you find that person that loves you genuinely, don’t just sit back and feel good about it, return the energy and be that which you want to keep seeing in that person!
If you like someone's vibes on the TL. Enter their DM and make friends with them. Get their WhatsApp number.
I don't mean sexual or romantic relationship. A kind of friendship where you can just text and catch up, and perhaps link up platonically. That's all.
Don't be stupid to put sexual innuendoes , it ruins everything and makes you look low tier, dreg like and a bottom barrel human.
There are lot of amazing and wonderful people you can be friends with.
Don't ask for money, Don't ask for help, Don't ask for a job, Don't ask for house rent, etc.
Just honest undiluted friendship
The worst that will happen is you get aired and no response.
You won't die , but you move on.
But honestly, try having good friends with some of your sensible mutuals or sensible people on the TL.
Emphasis on sensible
1. If a girl you barely know ask you for a sanitary pad, a hair tie, or asks “How do I look?" in a public restroom, you help her out.
2. Never post a group photo where you look like a 10/10 but your friend has her eyes half-closed or a double chin or isn’t generally looking good in that photo.
3. If your friend is hitting it off with someone, your job is to occupy the "boring" friend or keep the conversation flowing so she can have her moment.
You need to talk her up! Mention her promotion, talk about killer sense of humor, or her talent. Act like her PR manager at least for that day!
Dear ladies;
When you start having children, teach them the important of keeping their virginity.
It doesn't matter if you couldn't keep yours, Don't let them repeat the same mistake especially your girls..
We hardly talk about this because almost everyone is guilty of it..
Virginity is their pride, their own ego, their bragging right.
Re-write your mistakes through them and ensure they don't repeat it.