escortafrik: I’m a lady in my mid-30s and life was going very well for me except for one thing everybody except me seemed obsessed with - marriage.
I have a good career, I’m financially stable, respected in my field, and I genuinely loved the life I built for myself. But every family gathering, every wedding, every phone call from relatives somehow turned into:
“So when are you getting married?” You’re not getting younger oo
Eventually, I met someone through mutual friends.
He was unemployed at the time, but that did not bother me much because he was intelligent, kind, calm, and surprisingly very knowledgeable in the same profession as me.
We connected deeply and for the first time in a long while, I felt like I had found the ‘one’
As our relationship became serious, I started helping him professionally too. I helped him restructure his CV, prepared him for interviews, connected him to opportunities, and eventually introduced him to my organisation when there was an opening.
Thankfully, he got the job.
I was genuinely happy for him because I knew how difficult things had been for him financially before then. And after he got the job, things became even sweeter between us.
And some month after he proposed to me ! my joy became complete! My family was overjoyed.
Then, just as our wedding plans were moving forward smoothly, the company we worked introduced a new policy stating that married couples could no longer work in the organisation together. Once two employees got married, one person would have to resign.
That was when the real problem started.
I assumed we would sit down and discuss it logically.
I have spent years building my career there. I’m more senior. I currently earn more. And if we’re being realistic, my position is more stable at the moment.
But my fiancé shocked me.
He told me I should be the one to resign because:
“I’m the man.”
Initially I didn’t take him seriously but as the wedding date drew closer, he kept pressuring me to resign !
I then reminded him that I was already established before he came into the company. I was the one who helped him get the opportunity in the first place. If anyone should logically stay, shouldn’t it be the person whose career was already firmly built there?
But he said it would be embarrassing for him as a man if he was the one leaving while his wife continued working there, that I could do something else like supermarket business.
Imagine !
Since then, everything has changed.
Wedding plans have paused. We now fight everyday Even his family are supporting him, telling me to resign ! my heart is broken.
Not just because of the job itself, but because I genuinely believed I was building a life with someone who saw me as an equal partner.
Well I have concluded that I won’t resign and I will also make sure he is sacked. No one should call me wicked because he is very wicked for wanting to do this to me.
First, it's clear that the lack of understanding of what marriage entails is the most recurring reason for marriage problems globally not just in Nigeria, though terribly serious in Nigeria.
Now, if anyone should resign from that job, it should be him for all the reasons you listed.
The truth is that Nigerians have cultural problems when it comes to marriage, it's usually unheard of that it's the husband that should give way for the wife even when your salary supercede his, secondly you got him the job. At worst you guys will postpone the wedding date till he gets another job because it's also not advisable that a guy should go into a marriage with no job irrespective of the wife's job status. Except you are the one offering to drop out of the company.
Where you got it wrong is where you said that you're equal partners in the marriage. I don't know what you meant by that statement. Even in the situation where you earn higher than him, you're not equal partners irrespective of what the social media may be saying today.
For peace in any marriage, as long as the understanding is not there that the husband is the provider for the family, it's a matter of time before the castle you guys are building will crash. No matter how rich you guys may be.
The rich wife has a duty to support the husband to any extent she may want if what the husband is providing isn't enough. He must provide funds no matter how small, and the wife can augment it. You may even be dashing your husband money but he's your head and leader if you guys want peace.
In this scenario. It's better both of you part ways before tying any knot in marriage.
That marriage is already heading for the iceberg in the future.
ThompsonJoo: This is the saddest image you will find on the internet today
Nigerians are not fools. It is clear now that all these killings are for electioneering campaign purposes by the people who lost their hold on the fortune of Nigeria.
Let them continue, God will shame all of them in due time.
Very soon, they'll know that God has been watching all of them and He'll put them all to shame, including you who posted this.
TechCapon: dangote refinery is being powered by generators. Lol
I believe he's going to succeed but generation is not the problem, the transmitting/distribution companies are the problem
You guys are of low life. You've never celebrated anything good in your life. Just because Dangote is talking of another landmark investment, sadness has entered your soul.
As long as your village man who has been running around all the political parties in Nigeria and he hasn't succeeded, whoever that's thinking of how to make the nation better must be laughed at so that they won't succeed. Your ignorance about life is your undoing. Dangote Refinery that has power plant and capacity to sell to the neighbouring community is the one running on generator.
HacheNoire: That 1000 Naira still has more value in Nigeria than its USD or GBP equivalent.
I've always said it that most Nigerians are educated illiterates for those who went to school among us. It's a share waste of time arguing with many of us.
The reason for the highest denomination of our currency being limited to just #1000 is not known to most noise makers.
Please,matured minds in the house,is it a good thing for a man to help his ex girlfriend who's now married, financially. She used to be someone whom I loved so dearly in the past but unfortunately,she broke up with me immediately she met someone who was already asking her hand in marriage. It's been over 3 years since she got married and I made sure I cut every bit of communication between us. Out of the blue,I don't know who gave her my number. She called me,and apologized for what she did to me. Even before she could ask for my help,I already knew her husband wasn't financially buoyant like I thought. She said she wants to open a provision store ,cuz immediately after they got married,they relocated to Lagos. And she asked for my assistance.
So,I don't know if it's appropriate at all to help her, considering how she left me emotionally stranded when I needed her the most in my life. Tho I've completely moved on with my life,but receiving a call from her brought back a whole lot of memories.
Please,my fellow Nairalanders, reason with me. Should I help her out?
Yes, you can on certain conditions which she must agree to:
1. You must be single or else you inform your wife if she agrees with her condition. 2. Her husband must know about it. 3. Ask your wife to transfer the money. 4. This will prevent infidelity of whatever type.
Tohsynetita1: Ok,so is it 70/30 or 60/40? Let us know
It is actually 100/100.
The only way to have sanity in a marriage.
While the husband has the primary responsibility to take care of the family without holding back as if the wife earns nothing, the wife has the secondary responsibility of caring for the whole family as if the husband has no job.
The workability of this template is based on the understanding of the biblical instructions.
While the common algebra is the variants of 50/50, 60/40, 70/30, 80/20 etc all of which equals 100.
The variant I'm suggesting here is 100/100 which still equals 100; just like 1+1=1 in marriage.
SeverusSnape: giANT of Africa (for mouth) is nowhere to be found on positive lists like this.
Which sensible tourist would want to even visit a terrorists' enclave?
It's clear that's your intention of posting the data. God help you. As you say with your mouth, that's exactly what you get, except you relocate to those countries that aren't the terrorists enclave.
adamkkk: Fake dinner in his house Nd in his sitting room...
Abeg talk another thing
Sorry, you didn't understand the story like I didn't too before I went back to read it again.
The dinner wasn't by the Ayatollah, but the Israeli generals like they'll normally do on Fridays before Sabbath. So they released those images of their shutting down and the Iranian top leaders concluded that the Israelis are shutting down for the weekend, only to disguise back to their headquarters to unleash the terror.
Both of them watches each other via the satellite.
SmartPolician: PDP presidents were by far better than these incompetent and tribalistic rulers that APC is giving this country. Obasanjo has a special place in God's heart.
Sonnobax15: Back in the days during my childhood,we used to hide stones inside copper just to inflate the weight so that we can sell it on a higher price. On one fateful day,we were caught when the buyer decided to untie the copper. Omoh, you need to see how we take fly leave everything for the werey 😂
Magnetic010: Religion does not interest me that much I think you can deduce that from my respond to the original post...Hence I do not care to read many religious books, I only speak based on the ones I have read or better still the religions I have been able to study(based on what and people around me) I have not been to Asia so I know nothing about their Buddha or shiva or whatever...But the two most popular religions (around me) are based on similar ideologies...There is a supreme being who is the maker of everything we can see and cannot see
He made man and gave man dominion over all things
That ideology is what I think is just humans feeling self important.
My stand is any religion that tells you or makes you somehow believe that God created the whole earth and after that he has nothing else to do other than to listen to humans whining(prayers),praises and punish those who refuse to do this or that is just rubbish..because clearly what they are telling you is that humans are so important that God spends every minute of his life doting on us..which makes no sense.
Interestingly you've not told what you believe? I know you can't dodge that. Whatever it is tell us.
Every human being is an embodiment of what he or she believes.
Even your posturings here is a belief, so what name is it called and who are your followers or leaders.
I'm sure when you face a threat to your existence right now, we won't need to force you, you'll shout the name of whoever or whatever you believe.
WriteerNg: This is why the world must abandon the US dollars and use their own national currencies for trade.
It absolutely makes no sense using another country's currency to settle your own trade internationally.
You're giving the US an unfair advantage over you.
It's clear you don't understand how international trade happens.
If a whole Russia at forefront of creating an alternative currency for international trade instead of dollars is now going back to dollar; you should ask for reason.
It was like a joke when a lady who appear to be the girlfriend of the guy that was hugged by his ex-girlfriend in the present of his girlfriend in a mall
Is the girlfriend afraid that the ex may take the guy back or why did she has to act that way?