ideykwum: Her mother was smart! She isn't! Marriage is about acceptance! What should her mother have done? Divorce?? In those days, it was pariah! Become abusive and fight back? She'd be setting a bad example for her kids! Her mother was/is a virtuous woman, and she should admire her instead!
Marriage entails sacrifice but not loosing your identity as a human being.
Being a virtuous woman does not also entail meekly being the recipient of prolonged domestic physical abuse while your children watched and one is stuck because of what the society would say. And this was a man who played gentleman with women outside. lf her elder brother when he was just only 17 could be bold enough to hit at their father in one of his beating sessions of their mother, we can ignore their father's misdeed and easily judge the boy for committing an abomination even adding bible quotations to it!
There are things couples should not do to one another as both are responsible for nurturing a healthy marriage and a happy home.
We have evolved. ln marriages today, many couples still feel they have 'options' outside. Issues they could work on are left unresolved and the drifting begins.
We also have to consider that lengthy marriage does not necessarily mean a happy one. A female friend of mine told me though her parents were married for 28 years before her dad passed on, she will not accept from any man even half of what her mother endured being married to her father,
emflex: I was relying on NNPC for PMS to operate my generator since PHCN is never consistent. Now, that was before the fuel scarcity. I quickly opted for solar inverters and batteries. It's been raining everyday since then so the sun hasn't been consistent too hence my batteries aren't optimally charged. Should i build a dam and use turbines to generate electricity to run my business?
lf you insist on generating your own power this can inspire you!