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Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 5:45pm On Jul 28, 2025
Emmanuel30a:
Since GOD hate divorce according Malachi, can't you avoid marriage...? Afterall, without marriage there can't be divorce... In other words, you should avoid men at all cost so that they would not tells you I love you...and would ask you to marry them...
no way to avoid men, just dat some of dem are bad,
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Emmanuel30a: 6:01pm On Jul 28, 2025
dollytino4real:
no way to avoid men, just dat some of dem are bad,
If you can't avoid them, then don't say some of them are bad... If you can't avoid them, then you are your own adversary...that is doing anniversary...or you are own adversity that is attending university...
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Emmanuel30a: 6:09pm On Jul 28, 2025
Klass99:
The same bible says - There are six things the LORD hates, no, seven things he detests: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.

Why is divorce always the only thing singled out as what God hates when it comes to a woman wanting to end a marriage? Sometimes it feels like Malachi 2:16 is used in a manipulative way to spiritually blackmail women into remaining in marriages that hurt more than it helps, like an abusive one or one fraught with infidelity.

I'm just thinking out loud! Please stick with your beliefs.
Who or what is blackmailing women into having boyfriend and doing marriage...?
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by SmileDance(f): 10:33am On Jul 29, 2025
dollytino4real:
ok u don't read Bible so no need to argue bible with u Sir
I understand the bible and I can tell you for free that the verse you quoted in Malachi does not support you staying in abusive marriage.
It is actually better for a man to divorce his wife than to abuse her. But God hated both.
If you die in an abusive marriage you didn't obey God o.
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:07am On Jul 29, 2025
SmileDance:
I understand the bible and I can tell you for free that the verse you quoted in Malachi does not support you staying in abusive marriage.
It is actually better for a man to divorce his wife than to abuse her. But God hated both.
If you die in an abusive marriage you didn't obey God o.
ok, if u divorce, u will remain single till u die n if u remarry u are committing adultery and it is sin and sinners will go to hell. So those are some of the reasons we stay
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by SmileDance(f): 12:24pm On Jul 29, 2025
dollytino4real:
ok, if u divorce, u will remain single till u die n if u remarry u are committing adultery and it is sin and sinners will go to hell. So those are some of the reasons we stay
If the unbeliever departs, he should depart.
Any abusive partner will be treated as an unbeliever. (My opinion)
Also, it is better to remain unmarried after a divorce, live peacefully and take care of your children than die in an abusive marriage.
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by bukatyne(f): 7:49pm On Jul 29, 2025
dollytino4real:
ok, if u divorce, u will remain single till u die n if u remarry u are committing adultery and it is sin and sinners will go to hell. So those are some of the reasons we stay
I am interested in this conversation.

Ok, do you think that God wants you to stay in an abusive marriage? Or what is your definition of abuse here?
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:18pm On Jul 29, 2025
bukatyne:
I am interested in this conversation.

Ok, do you think that God wants you to stay in an abusive marriage? Or what is your definition of abuse here?
abusive is anything dat causes u disorder or discomfort monetary emotionally verbally nonchalant my own will be different from urs my own is nonchalant he don't care about anything concerning me n my relatives
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:21pm On Jul 29, 2025
SmileDance:
If the unbeliever departs, he should depart.
Any abusive partner will be treated as an unbeliever. (My opinion)
Also, it is better to remain unmarried after a divorce, live peacefully and take care of your children than die in an abusive marriage.
not all leads to death, some the women keep silent or the men they are shy to talk, me i dey talk o. I know no body can help me but myself but it gives a sigh of relief
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by SmileDance(f): 10:03am On Jul 30, 2025
dollytino4real:
not all leads to death, some the women keep silent or the men they are shy to talk, me i dey talk o. I know no body can help me but myself but it gives a sigh of relief
It is well, those women that died too didn't think they will die, and even if it doesn't lead to death, it is still dehumanizing, you deserve better
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 1:58pm On Jul 30, 2025
SmileDance:
It is well, those women that died too didn't think they will die, and even if it doesn't lead to death, it is still dehumanizing, you deserve better
dis Africa and Nigeria where women are seen as second object, na who get money n get back up fit dey stand after divorce o! If not u go turn ashy overnight because of feeding
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Nobody: 2:07pm On Jul 30, 2025
dollytino4real:
dis Africa and Nigeria where women are seen as second object, na who get money n get back up fit dey stand after divorce o! If not u go turn ashy overnight because of feeding
Lol grin, this woman I like your candour (frankness) I hear you on this and I feel you. Money and back up are not impossible things to achieve though.
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:46pm On Jul 30, 2025
Klass99:
Lol grin, this woman I like your candour (frankness) I hear you on this and I feel you. Money and back up are not impossible things to achieve though.
yes o, they are not impossible to get but still follow my brother, i don calculate my cost of leaving, to stay with my children alone and do small business guy i made 360 degree u turn. And stayed
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:56pm On Jul 30, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜ dis Africa and Nigeria where women are seen as second object, na who get money n get back up fit dey stand after divorce o!
➜If not u go turn ashy overnight because of feeding
But what stops an African and Nigerian woman making her money and backup before marriage or in marriage? undecided

2. Most ashy's actually have it so much better than women in toxic relationships, fa! So, what gives you the audacity to look down on them? undecided
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:58pm On Jul 30, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜yes o, they are not impossible to get but still follow my brother, i don calculate my cost of leaving, to stay with my children alone and do small business guy i made 360 degree u turn. And stayed
OK! So, what about the cost of staying on with the children? Was that equally factored? undecided
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 2:20am On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
OK! So, what about the cost of staying on with the children? Was that equally factored? undecided
the cost of staying back with the children os not much, he pays 4 d rent and atleast brings food so we all manage to stay
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 2:22am On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
But what stops an African and Nigerian woman making her money and backup before marriage or in marriage? undecided

2. Most ashy's actually have it so much better than women in toxic relationships, fa! So, what gives you the audacity to look down on them? undecided
look down on who fa!huh? Even if u make trillions b4 u enter toxic relationship, it will drain u, ur money and ur self worth shikina
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 2:30am On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜the cost of staying back with the children os not much, [b]he pays 4 d rent and atleast brings food [/b]so we all manage to stay
. What about the mental and emotional toll it takes on your kids and their future? Most women in abusive relationships who have a hard time leaving it were themselves raised by at least one abusive caregiver in their childhood. Many of them also had at least one caregiver who claimed to have endured abuse for their sake, and so for many of the same reasons, they too find themselves having a hard time leaving the abusive relationship they find themselves in. undecided

Rent and food will not make the future that likely awaits them go away. So? undecided
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 2:35am On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜look down on who fa!huh? Even if u make trillions b4 u enter toxic relationship, it will drain u, ur money and ur self worth shikina
If you truly believe this, what then makes you believe you will be able to save up and whatever else you claim you plan to do as he continues to pay rent, and provide food in that toxic situation? undecided
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Nobody:
dollytino4real:
yes o, they are not impossible to get but still follow my brother, i don calculate my cost of leaving, to stay with my children alone and do small business guy i made 360 degree u turn. And stayed
I'm a lady not a man. Is it possible to temporarily separate, find accommodation within close proximity and let the children split their stay between you and their father?

Instead of taking the children with you full time, explore the option of co-parenting. The reason why some separated and divorced women get into trouble is because they leave with the children and they are not financially capable. The moment you do that you make it easy for the men to take their hands off of their responsibility to the children.

In fact some intentionally do it as a way of punishing you for leaving. They say let me see how she will survive without me because you were majorly dependent on the man to begin with, then you now carried other people who were dependent on him along with you (i.e. the children)

When you co-parent though I think it forces a man to still do his duty by those children. They cannot be hungry and in the same house with him and he will do nothing na, unless he is a very wicked person. You are right when you say only women with money or support can leave and not only survive but thrive.

One woman I am aware of has been with SEC since her NYSC. She served there and SEC retained her afterwards she grew through the ranks and is now a senior manager. She single handedly raised her 3 children by herself paid their fees through good schools and all. Her marriage wasn't even an abusive one her husband was just an insecure man who didn't graduate school and so as her career took off and she began to grow it made him feel jealous and bad, in spite of her best efforts to show that my growth and success, is ours, it's for the whole family, her hubby just didn't see it that way.
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:11pm On Jul 31, 2025
Klass99:
I'm a lady not a man. Is it possible to temporarily separate, find accommodation within close proximity and let the children split their stay between you and their father?

Instead of taking the children with you full time, explore the option of co-parenting. The reason why some separated and divorced women get into trouble is because they leave with the children and they are not financially capable. The moment you do that you make it easy for the men to take their hands off of their responsibility to the children.

In fact some intentionally do it as a way of punishing you for leaving. They say let me see how she will survive without me because you were majorly dependent on the man to begin with, then you now carried other people who were dependent on him along with you (i.e. the children)

When you co-parent though I think it forces a man to still do his duty by those children. They cannot be hungry and in the same house with him and he will do nothing na, unless he is a very wicked person. You are right when you say only women with money or support can leave and not only survive but thrive.

One woman I am aware of has been with SEC since her NYSC. She served there and SEC retained her afterwards she grew through the ranks and is now a senior manager. She single handedly raised her 3 children by herself paid their fees through good schools and all. Her marriage wasn't even an abusive one her husband was just an insecure man who didn't graduate school and so as her career took off and she began to grow it made him feel jealous and bad, in spite of her best efforts to show that my growth and success, is ours, it's for the whole family, her hubby just didn't see it that way.
my babe, u try to type dis full sunday school message, i don't want to divorce him o! Just want him to feel our Absent from him then see if he will change and add value to our lives around him,
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:18pm On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
If you truly believe this, what then makes you believe you will be able to save up and whatever else you claim you plan to do as he continues to pay rent, and provide food in that toxic situation? undecided
no way my dear, my service money finished in it. My npower money went into stomach infrastructure without nothing to show, i still believe God 4 my change of story
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:21pm On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜no way my dear, my service money finished in it. My npower money went into stomach infrastructure without nothing to show, i still believe God 4 my change of story
Huh? huh
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:22pm On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
. What about the mental and emotional toll it takes on your kids and their future? Most women in abusive relationships who have a hard time leaving it were themselves raised by at least one abusive caregiver in their childhood. Many of them also had at least one caregiver who claimed to have endured abuse for their sake, and so for many of the same reasons, they too find themselves having a hard time leaving the abusive relationship they find themselves in. undecided

Rent and food will not make the future that likely awaits them go away. So? undecided
it makes my boys hard and are willing to hustle on their own without anyone forcing them because they see what their father is doing without me even telling dem anything negative about their father, na a father will drop 1500 for 3kids n I till nite they see things
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:25pm On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜ it makes my boys hard and are willing to hustle on their own without anyone forcing them because they see what their father is doing without me even telling dem anything negative about their father,
➜ na a father will drop 1500 for 3kids n I till nite they see things
Your children are having to grow up too fast because of what they see their father doing, meaning they miss out on a lot of the the social, mental and emotional skills they are meant to acquire as kids. And somehow you are Ok with this? undecided

2. You are their mother and are supposed to protect them from all of that harshness. So what are you doing? Nothing? Just leaving them to the harsh reality that is the father you chose for them? sad
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:26pm On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
Huh? huh
yes o, i just thank God 4 life n the kids i ve, dem dey sweet me as they see dem o, they will say mummy no worry i go buy u big house 🏠 big car no run away , pentalker word 4 tiktok
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:28pm On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
Your children are having to grow up too fast because of what they see their father doing, meaning they miss out on a lot of the the social, mental and emotional skills they are meant to acquire as kids. And somehow you are Ok with this? undecided

2. You are their mother and are supposed to protect them from all of that harshness. So what are you doing? Nothing? Just leaving them to the harsh reality that is the father you chose for them? sad
nothing o! My dear hope on God and pray 4 our change of story and encourage them to be good,
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:30pm On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜ yes o, i just thank God 4 life n the kids i ve, dem dey sweet me as they see dem o, they will say mummy no worry i go buy u big house 🏠 big car no run away , pentalker word 4 tiktok
Dem dey sweet you, how? The mere fact that you popped them out is the sweetness of having them? No care or mind for the impact that all of this harsh reality is in fact having on their mental, emotional, and social intelligence? No worries about the impact of watching all of that toxicity, that is, your relationship with the father you chose for them, on their lives later in their adult years, would be? undecided
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:31pm On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜nothing o! My dear hope on God and pray 4 our change of story
➜and encourage them to be good,
Why do you keep deflecting to this deity of yours when the decision to have and keep them where they are is all yours? huh

2. Ever heard the saying, "Action speaks louder than words?" You encourage them to do good while you yourself don't do good by them...to what end? undecided
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:35pm On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
Why do you keep deflecting to this deity of yours when the decision to have and keep them where they are is all yours? huh

2. Ever heard the saying, "Action speaks louder than words?" You encourage them to do good while you yourself don't do good by them...to what end? undecided
i don't do evil as u think, who no get money na evil person or wetinhuh
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by dollytino4real(f): 11:38pm On Jul 31, 2025
Kobojunkie:
Dem dey sweet you, how? The mere fact that you popped them out is the sweetness of having them? No care or mind for the impact that all of this harsh reality is in fact having on their mental, emotional, and social intelligence? No worries about the impact of watching all of that toxicity, that is, your relationship with the father you chose for them, on their lives later in their adult years, would be? undecided
their future is in God's hand . And their future is great good luck ebele how far
Re: The Harsh Reality Of African Women In Abusive Marriages by Kobojunkie: 11:45pm On Jul 31, 2025
dollytino4real:
➜i don't do evil as u think, who no get money na evil person or wetinhuh
Most people who do evil to others do not even realize it. Many of them think of themselves as victims of the evil of others, while conveniently ignoring the evil they perpetrate against those less than their own selves. And the saddest of it all is that most of them are also religious people... yeah, always claiming there is a god somewhere looking out for them. undecided

Your children are less than you, and only moments ago, you boasted of how the harsh reality of life in the toxic relationship you chose to remain in has impacted their very childhood; they have been forced by it to live life in a hard way. Yet you don't see how wicked all of that really is. Is it that you never thought their childhood should have been protected or something? 😩😩

Anyways, I am not trying to condemn you or judge you. I am merely trying to get you to realize how you are not a victim but a perpetrator in all of this wickedness against your children. If you had no children at all, this would have been much different since you, as an adult, have every right to live your life in the sickest, saddest way you want to. However, with kids involved, you are the perpetrator— your husband and you are in league— inflicting trauma against the very present and futures of all those innocent beings. 😩😩

No amount of hiding your acts behind the mentions of a god or other religious gobbledegook will change this. 😩😩
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