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Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by xcuggsm(m): 8:59am On Apr 22, 2010
TYPES OF NIGERIAN WIVES AND HUSBANDS. – A practical Guide to choosing a Spouse

For those considering getting married, use this as a guide to make a good and informed choice/decision.

HUSBAND CHARATERISTICS

IGBO HUSBAND
Plus
1.      He is very loyal
2.      He maintains monogamy
3.      Could be very yielding/gullible
4.      Gives you access to all his assets
5.      Follows your advice and directions to the letter
6.      Spends money on you for comfort, good looks and happiness
7.      Takes care of your kids
Minus
1.      Could be very unromantic-Romance is limited to spending money, spending money and
         spending money
2.      May be semi-literate or illiterate.
3.      May marry you early and deny you of access to life/youth.
4.      More likely to be crude and unrefined
5.      Always has a large family to cater to and take care of plus apprentices etc
6.      May not be presentable
7.      May be horrible in bed and/or sexually illiterate/unwilling to explore.
8.      Could be gullible/easy to deceive


YORUBA HUSBAND
Plus
1.      Could be very romantic.
2.      Could be caring
3.      Tries to maintain leadership in the home.
4.      Disciplines kids well
5.      More white-collar career inclined
6.      Literacy level is usually high
Minus
1.      More likely to philander
2.      More likely to eventually marry another wife
3.      More likely to marry you for your money/connections.
4.      Could be highly assertive,
5.      Most times you would take care of yourself after a while.
6.      You may eventually separate with nothing to show for it.
7.      Family members may be given priority.

EDO HUSBAND
Plus
1.      Believes in marriage
2.      Takes care of you and your needs.
Minus
1.      May end up not taking full care of the kids
2.      Could be very harsh
3.      Does not take any nonsense
4.      You may end up taking care of him
5.      You can't cheat on him.

URHOBO MAN
Plus
1.      Believes in marriage
2.      Takes care of you and your needs.
Minus
1.      You may end up taking care of him
2.      You can't cheat on him.

EFIK MAN
Plus
1.      Will effectively take care of the culinary activities in your absence.
2.      Is usually very religious
3.      Hardworking
4.      Good in bed
5.      Quite organised and clean.
Minus
1.      Be prepared to have 12 kids
2.      Your cooking may not be good enough
3.      He will either be very ugly or very handsome. no line between. He
        will also either be very short or very tall. Same with your kids
4.      Prepare to have a husband like 25 years older than you in his  fifties.

HAUSA MAN
Plus
1.      Hardly believes in premarital sex.
2.      Very religious
3.      Takes care of you
Minus
1.      You may be wife number 4
2.      You may be wife number 4 at 14
3.      You have absolutely no say in anything, anywhere and anytime.
4.      If he passes away, you may be transferred to another family.


WIFE CHARATERISTICS

URHOBO WIFE
Plus
1      always loyal/faithfully (cheating is outright abomination)
2      very hardworking and self reliant
3      very good cook (banga soup, owo, pepper soup, sea food specials)
4      can persevere even in poverty conditions
5      accommodating if a second wife shows up
6      what u see is what u get kind of attitude
7      would lay down their life for their children
Minus
1          argumentative
2          stubborn
3          alcoholic tendencies
4          some level of gra- gra
5          very very very vocal

YORUBA WIFE
Plus
1.      Very respectful to husband
2.      Very respectful to in-laws
3.      Most times educated
4.      Yielding and submissive
5.      Likes sex.
Minus
1.      Would most likely have had one kid for another man before you and after you.
2.      Will most likely cheat at 65% with one Uncle or Oga at office or even with your family
          member.
3,       Possibly give you another man's kid in between your kids
4.      Tells her mother or sisters or friends everything.
5.      May jazz you up.
6.      Will fill you with pepper, palm oil, assorted and amala.
7.      Probably will marry another man even if you split at 60 years of  age.
8.      If she makes more money than you, or you make less her, the uncles will finally start to
         drop her off in front of the house with a peck.

IBO WIFE
Plus
1.      Loyal to her husband
2.      Gives kids good nourishing food with vegetables and many spices.
3.      is very clean.
4.      is ready to fight anybody alongside her husband and break their head or even fight
         while the husband watches.
5.      Even if her husband leaves her at 30, she has only a 3% chance of  remarrying after kids.
6.      Stays with you even when you have nothing
Minus
1.      Very disrespectful to everyone including you.
2.      After breaking the neighbours' head will one day break yours.
3.      Only regards you as a man if you have money.
4.      Views love as spending power.
5.      May not really love you but will marry you because you are ready  and her real lover isn't.
6.      Will spend every dime of yours without touching hers
7.      May stop shagging you after 35.
8      If she makes more money than you, or you make less her, she will become VERY insubmissive
        and her family will finally remember what a useless in-law you are.
9      When there is a fight, her brothers will come and join to break your head.

EDO WIFE
Plus
1.      Cannot cheat on you
2.      Can also cook good food.
3.      Looks after kids and you.
4.      Very respectful
5.      Most times well endowed.
6.      Very thrifty
7.      Always has one brother or sister in Europe to bail you out in hard times.
8.      Does not leave you even if you are semi-dead, quarter dead or dead.
9.      If she makes more money than you, or you make less than her, she remains loyal but after
         building 10 houses you have no idea about.
Minus
1.      May have signed your death day the day you were married.
2.      You have a 98.75% chance of dying before her.
3.      Eventually you die and she becomes the landlady.
4.      Or she may have built her own house while you guys were still staying in a room and parlour
         without you knowing.
5.      May have done runs before you got married.

HAUSA  WIFE
Plus
1.      Everything good.
Minus
1.      If you are not a muslim, no chance.
2.      You may eventually have to show her where the Promised Land is.
3.      Even when you do, it must be in the dark.


EFIK WIFE
Plus
1.      She will load you with so much good food that every other thing is poison
2.      She will also f,  your brains out.
3.      Also loyal and respectful but will also break your head if you  misbehave.
4.      Very clean.
Minus
1.      She will f,  your brains out finally.
2.      She will either be very slim, have an extremely large ass or be very short.
3.      You will share shaving stick as she may have facial and chest hair.
4.      Even if you wanna leave her, the f**king and feeding will keep you coming back for more.
5.      She is definitely seeing other men outside,

Happy spouse hunting boys and girls. Don not say you were not provided with adequate analytical tools.
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by fubiluv: 9:18am On Apr 22, 2010
This post is very interesting.
80% true but some how painful. cool
Nice one anyway. tongue
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by otokx(m): 9:38am On Apr 22, 2010
a nice attempt
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by Nobody: 10:13am On Apr 22, 2010
I've come across this post on this forum in 10 different threads. Jezz whatever happened to using the search button
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by Freiburger(m): 10:27am On Apr 22, 2010
fubiluv:

This post is very interesting.
80% true but some how painful. cool
Nice one anyway. tongue


lol. i 'll say 95% are just the simple facts, grin
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by meyri: 5:14am On May 08, 2010
Ijaw wife? Ijaw husband?
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by Nobody: 5:24am On May 08, 2010
HAUSA  WIFE
Plus
1.      Everything good

this is too general.

why not break it down



@ list

hmm

stereotypes but who knows sha.
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by Nobody: 5:26am On May 08, 2010
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Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by guvna(m): 9:36pm On Jun 03, 2010
Ur thread is a crap, its false and full of contradictions. Waste of time
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by lepasharon(f): 9:14pm On Apr 08, 2012
loooooooooll cheesy
Re: Types Of Nigerian Wives And Husbands. – A Practical Guide To Choosing A Spouse by Rapmoney(m): 4:28pm On Apr 13, 2012
@poster, you too much!!!

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