Hello my people,

Plz i need someone to tell me if it is very important for guys to pay bride price because to me i see it as buying the lady from the parents and whatever you purchase , since ownership has been transferred u can treat it anyhow u want it. Waiting for comments.

kanmosyl:

Hello my people,

Please i need someone to tell me if it is very important for guys to pay bride price because to me i see it as buying the lady from the parents and whatever you purchase , since ownership has been transferred u can treat it anyhow u want it. Waiting for comments.

Pay the bride price and keep quiet! If not leave de people girl child where she is! Nonsense! ah ah!


Just kidding.
Seriously, I think the payment of a bride price doesn't symbolise ownership but the ability of the guy to able to provide well for the girl he intends to marry according to tradition. It shows that their daughter will not live a life a poverty or a level lower than that to which she is accustomed. (I stand to be corrected)

If you choose to marry traditionally, it is inevitable.

How you treat your wife should not be as a possession, but as outlined in the Word of God.

trini_girl:


Just kidding.
Seriously, I think the payment of a bride price doesn't symbolise ownership but the ability of the guy to able to provide well for the girl he intends to marry according to tradition. It shows that their daughter will not live a life a poverty or a level lower than that to which she is accustomed. (I stand to be corrected)

symbolism _interesting

trini_girl:

If you choose to marry traditionally, it is inevitable.

what is inevitable? what subject are you referring to?

trini_girl:

How you treat your wife should not be as a possession, but as outlined in the Word of God.

wrong!! how you treat your wife is absolutely dependent on the harmony that prevail in the matrimonial home.

trini_girl:

Pay the bride price and keep quiet! If not leave de people girl child where she is! Nonsense! ah ah!


Just kidding.
Seriously, I think the payment of a bride price doesn't symbolise ownership but the ability of the guy to able to provide well for the girl he intends to marry according to tradition. It shows that their daughter will not live a life a poverty or a level lower than that to which she is accustomed. (I stand to be corrected)

If you choose to marry traditionally, it is inevitable.

How you treat your wife should not be as a possession, but as outlined in the Word of God.

Very well said, I don't think any other response can top yours.

@ trini - good point

Is she not a human being? Why should she be treated anyhow because you paid a miserable fee for her to become your wife? No woman should be bought or treated as a commodity. There are also dowries but you don't see the wives mistreating their husbands just because they paid.

the genius have already said it all
paying the bride price doesnt mean that ownership has been transferred onto u and beside are the girls goods and services that u are buying.

kanmosyl:

Hello my people,

Please i need someone to tell me if it is very important for guys to pay bride price because to me i see it as buying the lady from the parents and whatever you purchase , since ownership has been transferred u can treat it anyhow u want it. Waiting for comments.

What is this? Email from stone-age? Why are there so many retarded people around in this forum??

Don't blame it on tradition: if u are modern enough to use computer u never should talk about a human being like this!!

Thank you all. I really appreciate ur comments.