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HealthRe: HELP! My Cousin Is About To Get Married To A Sickle Cell Patient by expatriate(m): 5:26pm On Dec 29, 2014
SwagPower:
Wat do I tell her 2 dissuade her...
she's an AA though..
the guy is an SS...
pls help, 4 d sake of d unborn children...
looking 4wad 2 ur responses...


REMEMBER DAT THE WORST PART OF HELL IS RESERVED 4 THOSE WHO MAINTAIN NEUTRALITY IN TIMES OF MORAL CRISIS...
I don't see any bad in it
they are compatible and if the man is a healthy sickler like my self.
then no cause for alarm.
besides once he is up to 30 the crisis stops.
no more frequent visits to hospital.
though he should go for his frequent check up.
RomanceRe: Cheating In Marriages, An Act Of Decision. Don't Blame The Devil When Caught. by expatriate(op): 4:29pm On Dec 28, 2014
quivah:
I thought men are polygamous in natureundecidedhuh
the polygamy in men has nothing to do with d devil.
its as a result of reacting to what u see, which u can actually decide not to, and hence control ur manliness. grin
quivah:
I thought men are polygamous in natureundecidedhuh
the polygamy in men has nothing to do with d devil.
its as a result of reacting to what u see, which u can actually decide not to, and hence control ur manliness.
RomanceRe: Cheating In Marriages, An Act Of Decision. Don't Blame The Devil When Caught. by expatriate(op): 4:29pm On Dec 28, 2014
quivah:
I thought men are polygamous in natureundecidedhuh
the polygamy in men has nothing to do with d devil.
its as a result of reacting to what u see, which u can actually decide not to, and hence control ur manliness.
RomanceRe: Please Help Am Still A Virgin by expatriate(m): 3:54pm On Dec 28, 2014
adebayour26:
[size=28]Don't you have a Career to pursue?[/size]

Justin Beiber is a little older than you (20 years), he has been able to buy a private Jet for himself.

Your mates are making money, you are wondering why you 've never bleeped
never compare someone with another person.
u what have u achieved @ ur age? undecided
adebayour26:
[size=28]Don't you have a Career to pursue?[/size]

Justin Beiber is a little older than you (20 years), he has been able to buy a private Jet for himself.

Your mates are making money, you are wondering why you 've never bleeped
never compare someone with another person.
u what have u achieved @ ur age?
RomanceRe: Cheating In Marriages, An Act Of Decision. Don't Blame The Devil When Caught. by expatriate(op): 2:21pm On Dec 28, 2014
Tallesty1:
The Kinda stuff I like reading.
Thanks for sharing it............
ur welcome.
RomanceCheating In Marriages, An Act Of Decision. Don't Blame The Devil When Caught. by expatriate(op): 10:42am On Dec 28, 2014
DO ALL MEN CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES?

By AZUKA ONWUKA

When we make a promise, a vow or a resolution to do a certain thing or stop a certain habit or trait, is it by our will that we keep to that decision? To me, the answer is more of Yes than No.

When it comes to an addiction, a person’s willpower may not be the only determinant. For example, if a chain smoker resolves to stop smoking cigarette, it may not be so easy to implement. Drug addiction is even more difficult.

But what about issues like infidelity, fighting, use of expletives, etc? I believe that as long as the person is sane, it is not so hard if there is genuine determination. Let me use myself as an example.

When I got married some 11 years ago, I made a promise to myself to be faithful. Given what I had heard from men and women about men, I was afraid it would not be easy. But I said I would try. There have indeed been temptations, but I have been surprised that it has not been difficult at all to be faithful. I have not had to struggle to be faithful. With all sense of modesty, I can say that it has been easier for me to be faithful than to wake up when my alarm sounds in the morning.

Interestingly, I have been faithful for many reasons, but the top most is that I don’t want to disappoint myself. My mind always reminds me that I made a vow before God and man to be faithful. Why should I not keep my words even if no human being is watching? Even if most men are said to be unfaithful, why can’t I be different?

I have also told my wife that if ever I become unfaithful and tell her that it was caused by the devil, she should smash my head for that comment. But I have also asked her never to jump into conclusions over stories or even pictures purporting to prove that I am unfaithful. Such may be cooked up. If I ever cheat on her and she confronts me with it, I will not add insult to the injury by telling a lie. If I ever become unfaithful, it will not be caused by the devil. It will be because I choose to be.

Extramarital sex is not a reflex action or a spontaneous action like sneezing or slapping someone in anger. It is usually planned, sometimes over months. If one plans, night after night and week after week, how to sleep with one’s sister-in-law, house maid, secretary, neighbour, etc, and eventually succeeds, I don’t see how one should blame the devil. If one could not resist the devil during the weeks of scheming, then the devil should not be blamed.

The only thing I have ensured is that I don’t live away from my wife for months and years in pursuit of career or business.

The second example is that when I was 14 years old, I read some books (especially Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People) and decided never to swear at people or insult anyone again. It seemed difficult at first because our environment is one in which children, parents, teachers and other adults have no scruples about flinging swearwords at people. So, how do you react when someone insults you or your parents or your people? That’s difficult. But for over 30 years now, I have done it.

About the same time too in secondary school, I flung a bunch of keys at a classmate who had done something trivial to me and was running away. The keys caught him in the stomach. He grabbed his tummy and winced in pain. My classmates upbraided me. I felt ashamed of myself. I looked like a monster. I vowed that day never to fight again. For about 30 years now, I have not been involved in any physical or verbal combat.

Then, this is the strangest. Sometime during my teenage years, I noticed that I had many scars on my legs and arms from injuries sustained while playing, falling down, working, etc. Till today, two of my toe nails look like the talons of a hawk because they were broken many times. I told myself that I would never fall down again. It sounded ridiculous even to myself. But surprisingly, I have never slipped and fallen since then. Any time I slip, I catch myself somehow and save myself from hitting the floor like a sack. I can’t say how I do it but I guess it’s a thing of the mind.

Now, hear this funny one. When I was in class 2 in secondary school, my vice-principal caught me outside the class after break. I told him that I was coming from the toilet. He asked me why I did not empty my bowels in the morning before having my bath. That sounded ridiculous. I asked him in my mind if he was thinking properly: How could one control when to visit the toilet?

But years later, I decided to try it by forcing myself to empty my bowels before having my bath. Many times, it did not work. But after a while, my body got the message. Any time I tie a towel around my waist in the morning, be it 5a.m. or 10a.m., my tummy knows that it is time for gastrointestinal evacuation. Since my university years, that has been the practice. If my body is not ready in the morning, I only need to drink a glass of water for it to get ready for the routine.

Again, when I began working in 1995, the office had someone who served tea or coffee every morning. The aroma of coffee was too enticing for me. So, I took coffee every morning. A month later, I was hit by an abdominal pain that hurt as if my intestines were being shredded. I panicked and headed home from Lagos. Immediately I got into my hometown, the pain evaporated. Superstitious? No. Just simple psychology. That was about the third time I had travelled home and become well without any treatment: the first was at the university; the second was immediately after my National Youth Service Corps orientation. At that period, no other place was home for me except home.

Even though the pain had subsided, I still visited my doctor. He told me that the coffee was the culprit. It had woken up a peptic ulcer that was sleeping for years. Therefore, since 1995, in spite of the tempting fragrance of coffee – whether decaf or not -I have not tasted it.

point is that our mind is powerful: more powerful than we assume. When we challenge it, it gives us surprising results. No wonder Napoleon Hill wrote a book that he called: Think and Grow Rich. Indeed, as a man thinketh, so is he.

There are many things in life outside our control, but there are many critical things within our control. If we make up our mind to achieve certain feats in life, we will accomplish them. Even if we don’t get to the height of our dream, at least, we won’t be on the floor like those who never tried at all.

As we plan to go into the New Year in a matter of days, we can take a decision on one habit that has not added any value to our existence. If we put our mind to it, we can overcome it.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a fruitful New Year.
RomanceRe: Pls Help! My House Girl Is Tempting Me.. by expatriate(m): 12:42pm On Dec 22, 2014
Misogynist2014:
Archaic view of men! They both defiled one another! angry
thats what am thinking
but others think its d guy that defiles alone
RomanceRe: Why Are Ladies After Marriage More Than Guys? by expatriate(m): 6:08am On Dec 13, 2014
Jasi7:
As a dude u think of other things than marriage....you think of making success,become somebody so that if at all u choose to get married later,u wuldnt take someone's daughter put her in the house to suffer becos u cant provide for her and d family...but many ladies wont understand that.many times I walk through my streets and see how families cope,I wonder how the husband feeds d woman and d 6children...there is this family I know around my street,they children are always dirty,I mean very dirty,their school uniforms are torn and oil stains all over it....another family I knw,the daughters are semi-prostitutes if there is any word like that,I see them at a certain joint looking for the next guy to pay 1k and take them for short time!...

Who wants that kind of life for his family...no right thinking dude wants that!
guy nah for ghetto be that way u grew up grin
Jasi7:
As a dude u think of other things than marriage....you think of making success,become somebody so that if at all u choose to get married later,u wuldnt take someone's daughter put her in the house to suffer becos u cant provide for her and d family...but many ladies wont understand that.many times I walk through my streets and see how families cope,I wonder how the husband feeds d woman and d 6children...there is this family I know around my street,they children are always dirty,I mean very dirty,their school uniforms are torn and oil stains all over it....another family I knw,the daughters are semi-prostitutes if there is any word like that,I see them at a certain joint looking for the next guy to pay 1k and take them for short time!...

Who wants that kind of life for his family...no right thinking dude wants that!
guy nah for ghetto be that way u grew up
RomanceRe: Why Are Ladies After Marriage More Than Guys? by expatriate(m): 6:03am On Dec 13, 2014
kennygee:
Not these days o.

Nowadays, women want to do well for themselves.

After that, they can consider marriage.

There are even ladies out there who prefer to just have kids and remain single mums.
story for the godss
CultureRe: Do Boa Snakes Have Diamonds? by expatriate(m): 9:26pm On Dec 10, 2014
sukkot:
you wan hammer by all means necessary ? make snake no chop you alive ooo. me i done talk my own sha undecided
wait let me ask Ifa sad
sukkot:
you wan hammer by all means necessary ? make snake no chop you alive ooo. me i done talk my own sha undecided
wait let me ask Ifa
CultureIf Only Our Ladies Will Adhere To This Advise Marriages Would Be Saved. by expatriate(op): 1:10pm On Dec 10, 2014
SEE THE 24 Words of Wisdom FOR
ALL LADIES...
• My daughter, don’t cause a
separation between
your man and his siblings; it could
be dangerous for
you when they finally speak with one
voice.
• My daughter, I know that some of
you girls don’t
wish to marry a man whose mother
is still alive,
don’t ever think like that, if you do,
well, I think your
son’s
wife-to-be should start wishing
you're
dead now.
• My daughter, listen to me, when I
married your
father, he was as tiny as his salary
but I chose to
grow with him and today, those cars
out there are
some of the results of what we
started so little,
together, and
we’re proud looking at them.
• My daughter, there is this thing i
see happening in
your time, some of you girls now get
pregnant
before the wedding day, well, it
never happened in
our time because no matter what,
we never opened
our laps
before the wedding.
• My daughter, well, yes, I once
locked up the cloth
of your father because I got to my
limit of patience
and that was the only thing I could
do, but one
thing I haven’t said was that we
settled the issue
that same day and that was the last
time I tried
that.
• My daughter, look up there. That’s
the wedding
picture of your father and I, look at
him smiling, I
know you've seen it many times but
what you did
not know is that your father was
angry before
taking this picture, I hope you find a
man whose
anger
doesn't last till the next day.
• My daughter, when your Father
was riding a
bicycle, I was always happy to hop
on it and ride
with him, not because I didn't see
those men in
their little cars but because my
eyes also saw those
men trekking to their farms.
• My daughter, if you and your
husband eat a little
food with
love, you both would be satisfied.
Times
are not always the same; support
him in every phase
he’s passing through.
• My daughter, don’t ever close
your laps to your
husband in
bed , the day he paid your dowry
was the day you
lost your
will to do so, don’t be stiff and
try to satisfy him even if you were
angry with him.
• My daughter, a man would respect
you and be
more proud of you if you’re learned
and not totally
dependent on him. Strive to make
your own money
and while you're at it, be humble.
• My daughter, under the cocoa
tree that I did meet
with your Father was open and
good enough for our
discussions, yes; it was open and
good enough if you
understand what I mean.
• My daughter, in our time, we had
sexy legs and firm
bosoms to show our men , in fact,
we had the finest
ones,
yet, when we dress, we cover those
parts of our body, not because we
were not civilized
as you people would call it, but
because we know
that the eyes of men are hungry,
many of them
would only come, touch and go their
way.
• My daughter, there is this thing
you girls now
practice, they
say it’s feminism. Well, you can
prove
to be equal to a man in the society
but please, not
in your marriage because at my old
age, I don’t want
to start counting your husbands.
• My daughter, marriage is not a
Rehabilitation
Centre, if he’s not good enough for
you before
marriage,
nothing he does would be good
enough
after marriage.
• My daughter, you can see I still
wear my night
gown , yes,
because to my husband; your
father, I still want to
look sexy.
So, take good care of your
body, look good for your man and
don’t look like a
grandma after giving birth.
• My daughter, I’m your mother and
still, I'm not
interested in you coming to me
always if anything
goes wrong with your husband.
Though nowadays I
see some
mothers controlling the homes of
their
sons and daughters, I would only
say; shame on
them!
• My daughter, for you to have a
peaceful home and
well-trained children, have one
voice with your
husband, join him to say NO when
he’s saying NO
before the
kids but later when you both are
alone,
you can plead with him for a YES, if
not, the
children will see a loophole to
misbehave, either to
you or their father.
• My daughter, if you chose to live
together with a
man that
you’re yet to be married to , and you
are complaining
that he
hasn't proposed to you, oh, he
already did. Whatever he said that
made you start
living with him was his proposal.
• My daughter, your generation
does not see any
pride in been a virgin before
marriage, it’s a shame!
Your father met me a virgin and he
brought more
yams to
my parents and up till today, he’s
still proud
of me when we discuss in that
direction.
• My daughter, I know that no man
out there is
complete, but when you are looking
for your tall,
slim, fair and handsome, if he’s a
woman-beater,
please, go for the short, fat, dark
and ugly that will
give you
the respect you deserve as a
woman.
• My daughter, know, learn and
respect the culture
and
lifestyle of whoever you chose to
marry . In some
part of
Africa, you knee down to greet your
man’s parents while in some part
outside Africa; you
can even call them by their first
name and ask for a
handshake. Whatever they believe
in, if you've
chosen him, believe it with him also.
• My daughter, don’t ever try to
date a married man,
whether
his excuse was that he doesn't find
happiness with his wife or he would
have married
you if he had met you first, if you
ever try it, I curse
you already.
• My daughter, when I say over 52
years of
marriage , it
wasn't that I did not see any reason
to leave
your father, I saw a lot of them but I
bear his faults,
i forgave him to stay married.
• My daughter, these are part of the
wisdom i have
gathered over the years. and If I
had taken my time
to tell you all these, and your
marriage doesn't last
like that
of your father and I, then I had
wished i
never gave birth to you.
RomanceRe: Ladies, Stop Sending Guys Your Unclad Pictures by expatriate(m): 8:18am On Dec 10, 2014
englishmart:
why take an unclad pic. In the first place?
nah watin me de imagine oh. huh
englishmart:
why take an unclad pic. In the first place?
nah watin me de imagine oh.
BusinessRe: 25 Hot-in-demand Non-oil Products To Export From Nigeria by expatriate(m): 7:53am On Dec 10, 2014
criuze:
Thanks bro, but we need guides and procedures on how to export them



Can you give us your contacts so we can reach yo
u
criuze:
Thanks bro, but we need guides and procedures on how to export them
Can you give us your contacts so we can reach yo
u
criuze:
Thanks bro, but we need guides and procedures on how to export them



Can you give us your contacts so we can reach yo
u
exactly, thats what am interested in.
FashionRe: Couple Dressed Up As Shrek & Princess Fiona For Their Wedding -SEE PHOTOS by expatriate(m): 9:53am On Dec 23, 2013
born_to_be_gr8t: Dude really looks an OGRE grin
really really looking like ogre grin
born_to_be_gr8t: Dude really looks an OGRE grin
really really looking like ogre
FamilyRe: And What's So Special About The Male Child? by expatriate(m): 2:31pm On Dec 05, 2013
if u don't have a male hmmmm
ur generation Don deh hibernate

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