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Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Duru009(m): 11:49pm On Jul 06, 2020
This life is too sweet and short to be wasted!

I will advice you to divorce her and co-parent the child!!

And get marry to the love of your life and leave happily there after....
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Nobody: 11:50pm On Jul 06, 2020
ollins:
Let me cut the story short. Had a fling with this girl, along the line she got pregnant. You know all that talk of "if you could sleep with her, then you must marry her" "if you got her pregnant then you must marry her", Iooking back now, I wished I hadn't listened to all those voices.

I knew in my heart that I didn't love her, even she knew but the pressure from the family was too much, I had to marry her. On my marriage day I was practically crying within me.

Her character is just opposite of all I wanted in a woman, she's barely educated, loud and loquacious.

That's my cross I am carrying today, stuck in a loveless marriage.

The warmth and Romance is absent from our home, we have not had intimacy since beginning of the year till now, we just have no interest anymore in each other. We are just living together for the sake of our child.

My question now is how does one cope�? Is this how I am going to live the rest of my life?

Do you love your child? When I mean love, I mean can you sacrifice your life for him or her?

Answer my question and I will know what to tell you
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by AnanseK(m): 11:51pm On Jul 06, 2020
baby124:

Women also do have sex with men they don’t love. That’s not unique to men alone, but women get judged. They mostly do it secretly though. On both sides this has to do with your state of mind/morals. However be ready for the consequences when you make that decision. To his wife he may not even be her cutest catch but maybe the one that offers her escape from poverty grin. The girl is probably the smartest in this whole thing because she got her desired outcome, while he’s bitter because his fraudulent act backfired.

I agree with you. But imagine the society insisting that Ashewos should marry customers who visited them , with no option at all.

Sex should not automatically mean love and marriage especially if it was a consensual sex. Pregnancy is a well known possible side effect of sex. There are other side effects like sexually transmitted infections. If you two have sex, you have automatically agreed to take the risks, so why bring in marriage afterwards?
Of course there are well known risk reduction methods either or both of you could take if you consider it important.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by priscaoge(f): 11:52pm On Jul 06, 2020
bukatyne:


Brother Ollins,

If this lady is as terrible as this, how were you able to get an erection to stick it into her?

How did you start the toasting to get her into your bed and arms?

The same magic you worked to get her pregnant, use it again.

It is in you like peak!

You practically took the words out of my mouth. Thank you for stating fact and not painting words. How did he ever get erection? Now he called it a “Fling” to buttress his story. Very unnecessary thing to say! He saw all these and still asked her out, had multiple orgasm and even went down with her RAW!!!!!


Oga Op, carry your cross and stop bothering us undecided undecided

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Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by mamatwiny(f): 11:52pm On Jul 06, 2020
CsRockefeller:


All through, I was the one even pushing her to go to school. In no way was I manipulating her to keep her around.

We never saw since I left school, just phone calls so there was no way I could have stopped her from being free, it's what's she tells me I believe.

She saw that the friendship was very valuable to her and decided to stay despite we not dating.

I believe I did no wrong, I told her why we can't be, she acknowledged but we still kept in touch.

Tomorrow when she completes her education, she will look back and be happy she met someone who pushed her not someone who was interested in her body or frivolities.

@Mariangeles

I understand your situation. I once met a guy while I was serving in the north and in one week he had asked to marry me. I rejected his proposal cos I wasn't ready for any relationship nor marriage, but I liked his friendship/company. We remained friends, he kept coming to visit me. After some months, he asked again and I refused the second time. After a while, he told me he has to stop coming to see me cos the more he comes, the more attracted he becomes. He left the location and switched off his no. (later found out he went to work in the remote locations ) and didn't bother coming out again . It was when he left that I really found out I had fallen in love with him and really missed him so much. Sometimes, we don't know what we want until we lose it.

My advice to the op is to try and remember what first attracted him to her. Even if it is just on thing, hold on to it and love her. Spend quality time together, take her out, but her good things, and the relationship will spark again . Give and you will receive.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Amotekun777: 11:52pm On Jul 06, 2020
HembaqMbk:
Bible says "Love your wife". It is a commandment. So just love her. It is the only way to cope.

Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Ghostmode2two(m): 11:53pm On Jul 06, 2020
Has she given birth yet? Why fling with bae you can't marry? Bro Na long thing ooo
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by baby124: 11:54pm On Jul 06, 2020
AnanseK:


I agree with you. But imagine the society insisting that Ashewos should marry customers who visited them , with no option at all.
Did he tell you he met his wife on the side of the road? If she’s an Ashewo then so is he and they should stay together and make their marriage work. Who understands and Ashawo better than her customer and Vice versa?
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by cnonyechi(f): 11:56pm On Jul 06, 2020
ollins:
Let me cut the story short. Had a fling with this girl, along the line she got pregnant. You know all that talk of "if you could sleep with her, then you must marry her" "if you got her pregnant then you must marry her", Iooking back now, I wished I hadn't listened to all those voices.

I knew in my heart that I didn't love her, even she knew but the pressure from the family was too much, I had to marry her. On my marriage day I was practically crying within me.

Her character is just opposite of all I wanted in a woman, she's barely educated, loud and loquacious.

That's my cross I am carrying today, stuck in a loveless marriage.

The warmth and Romance is absent from our home, we have not had intimacy since beginning of the year till now, we just have no interest anymore in each other. We are just living together for the sake of our child.

My question now is how does one cope�? Is this how I am going to live the rest of my life?

Better divorce her now, before we hear on the front page that "nairalander in loveless marriage commits suicide".

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Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by PharmaGirl(f): 11:58pm On Jul 06, 2020
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Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by petitejolie(f): 11:59pm On Jul 06, 2020
Can two work together except they agree? The both of u if willing can work things together.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Shaprara: 12:00am On Jul 07, 2020
How old is your child ? Let your child come of age, agree to divorce, so both of you can work and take care of the child. Don't go your separate ways if the child is 2,3,4,5 years old.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Germi9: 12:01am On Jul 07, 2020
bukatyne:


Brother Ollins,

If this lady is as terrible as this, how were you able to get an erection to stick it into her?

How did you start the toasting to get her into your bed and arms?

The same magic you worked to get her pregnant, use it again.

It is in you like peak!
he said a fling..ladies too can hide their bad side. God help us
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by DebbieSylvex(f): 12:01am On Jul 07, 2020
Build it up like a foundation. Get to know her&you guys should make it work
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Dextre(m): 12:02am On Jul 07, 2020
ImaIma1:
I guess sex happened or she just fell pregnant.

If not, why get intimate with someone you can't seem to stand.


Cos men don't attach emotions to sex. Sex is just sex for men,a form of exercise, that's all.

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Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by fabienjoe: 12:03am On Jul 07, 2020
The baby that was the issue is already born. They should come together and discuss the baby's welfare. The guy can go to court and initiate divorce proceedings. He could claim he never loved her but was forced into the marriage on account of the pregnancy. I'm not aware of any law that imposes marriage on a man if he gets a woman pregnant. And I'm saying this with every sense of responsibility. If the resentment persists and the man feels trapped, evil may begin to germinate in his mind. For the woman's own safety, they need to go their separate ways..
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by ogianyo(m): 12:03am On Jul 07, 2020
bukatyne:


Brother Ollins,

If this lady is as terrible as this, how were you able to get an erection to stick it into her?

How did you start the toasting to get her into your bed and arms?

The same magic you worked to get her pregnant, use it again.

It is in you like peak!
There are many reasons and circumstances that will make a man sleep with any woman. I guess you are not strong financially. Otherwise you'd make a comfortable arrangement for her and your child and explore the possibility of marriage from some distance. Its very to live the way you are living now for both of you.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by chukemmang(m): 12:05am On Jul 07, 2020
You have carried your useless life to disturb the life of this innocent girl now. Why will you sleep and get her pregnant when you knew from the beginning that you didn't love her? That is the act of a coward.

Please divorce the poor girl so she can meet a human being that will make her happy before your cowardly brain will drive you to kill her so that you can chicken out of the situation.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by nextstep(m): 12:07am On Jul 07, 2020
ollins:
Her character is just opposite of all I wanted in a woman, she's barely educated, loud and loquacious.

The warmth and Romance is absent from our home, we have not had intimacy since beginning of the year till now, we just have no interest anymore in each other. We are just living together for the sake of our child.

OP, based on the little I know, I can say this solution is salvageable, if you want it.

It appears you just despise her because of her education, and that it's affecting your romantic feelings towards her. I know many loud and loquacious women who "went to uni or poly", so... you're welcome to try your luck with an "educated babe". Or you can send her to school, or hire private tutors, to bring her up to some level. It might be tough and embarrassing for her, but it's possible, and has been done by others before you.

There are also "finishing schools" that teach etiquette in Nigeria, if you can convince her (nicely) that it's something that would be good for both of you. You can look for "an educated babe" to tutor her privately (of course you should pay the person).

You say have no interest in each other - what have you done to rekindle the interest? You're mentioning something many couples go through anyway, and level of education, profession, loud, has nothing to do with it.

Basically, unless she is fundamentally a bad person, all the things you've mentioned are fixable. You just have to work on it. Many a man divorced their wife only to jump from frying pan into fire.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by apprentist(m): 12:07am On Jul 07, 2020
Righteousness89:
As Long as you have Married her, She is your wife...

As for Love, open up yourself and your Family to God... As you two begin to Love God, His Love will begin to reignite Love in your Home..

The More you two connect together to God in prayers and in his word, Baba will sort you two out..

I believe this is all you need. Both of you should focus in loving God and in the process you will find love for your self

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Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by TheSourcerer: 12:07am On Jul 07, 2020
PharmaGirl:

undecided
not tribalism pure racism , you hate her whole Race , mehn didn't know it was biological , come to think about it ,of course racism and tribalism are biological , has to do with our ego and pride or straight out insecurity


*Sorry meant for the guy you quoted
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Kmaestro(m): 12:10am On Jul 07, 2020
Judging from the statement you made about her attributes of being loud, uneducated and loquacious, these are things you can change with understanding and patience.

Also, For the fact that you bleeped her RAW (without protection) tells a lot that there are things about her that you are much likely drawn to. Take time to help her improve on that as well.

In conclusion, the turn offs of your wife is something that can be improved upon with understanding, patience and cooperation. The few things that turn you on about her should be improved on as well, do stuffs that would trigger that part of her being.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by warmachine(m): 12:11am On Jul 07, 2020
ollins:
Let me cut the story short. Had a fling with this girl, along the line she got pregnant. You know all that talk of "if you could sleep with her, then you must marry her" "if you got her pregnant then you must marry her", Iooking back now, I wished I hadn't listened to all those voices.

I knew in my heart that I didn't love her, even she knew but the pressure from the family was too much, I had to marry her. On my marriage day I was practically crying within me.

Her character is just opposite of all I wanted in a woman, she's barely educated, loud and loquacious.

That's my cross I am carrying today, stuck in a loveless marriage.

The warmth and Romance is absent from our home, we have not had intimacy since beginning of the year till now, we just have no interest anymore in each other. We are just living together for the sake of our child.

My question now is how does one cope�? Is this how I am going to live the rest of my life?
. Uncle! You said she's barely educated,well,you also sound barely educated too....How did you sleep with her in the first place?...it's nobody's fault,just start all over with her,you both have a long heart to heart session to undergo!...all these your "barely educated and loquacious" issues with her does not make her a bad wife or assure a happy home,only understanding,love, patience and tolerance makes a happy home!... And remember say everybody get fault.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by mrchineke: 12:14am On Jul 07, 2020
Righteousness89:
As Long as you have Married her, She is your wife...

As for Love, open up yourself and your Family to God... As you two begin to Love God, His Love will begin to reignite Love in your Home..

The More you two connect together to God in prayers and in his word, Baba will sort you two out..

Foolishness and nonsense!

Get out fast my man. You may end up killing her if you stay out of pity or so called commitment. Get out and damn the consequences!
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by csamii: 12:16am On Jul 07, 2020
Is there a gun to your head that you must be stuck in a loveless marriage? Or you think you can't care for your child if you remarry? Or your family will beat you if you file for divorce because they are the ones in pains abi?

Oga, you don't have case!
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by mrchineke: 12:23am On Jul 07, 2020
CsRockefeller:
OP I have a feel of what are passing through. It's quite a pity you had sex with her.

I once had this small (petite) Yoruba girl. I was first attracted to her because I thought she was Igbo due to her fair complexion.

We got into d friendship, gosh!! She was there, everyday, every night. She will call with her credit and we will gist in Yoruba, we were an item, yet I refuse to ask her out.

I couldn't imagine myself with a Yoruba lady, even if I managed to get pass that hurdle what about her education? She was a hairstylist, her mom had just passed on, her father was away in Benin Republic, her brother was in Abk, so she was just alone in one room.

Two years gone, we were still friends, she kept on asking why I was taking time cry I really wanted to love her enough to date her but I couldn't find it. She asked if it was because she wasn't in school, then after my NYSC, she got admission to a Polytechnic, she thought I might have a change of heart. I didn't.

Every opportunity to go see her, I turned it down. It's now 4 years, she has decided to move on. I was still trying to close my eyes and imagine that she isn't Bisola but Nkechi or Chioma. Funny is that we spoke Yoruba everytime we spoke.

She invited me one day for that stuff, I told myself; don't do this if you don't love her enough to date her. I didn't go.

The following month she got a date, but she wasn't feeling it. We kept on talking and my presence was a distraction to her new found love. Las las d guy blocked me everywhere and I decided to let it be.

Sometimes, I just seat and beat my heart or brain for not finding that push or extra space to accommodate that girl in my heart.

Truth is sometimes our heart or feelings just plays tricks on us.

My own case was not that I didn't find a very nice beautiful girl but stupid Tribalism wouldn't let me be.

Yet you and your yamlegged people want to die in Lagos? Why don’t you and your people vamoosed back to your backyard one plot igboland. Nonsense!
That stupid girl sef!
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Nobody: 12:25am On Jul 07, 2020
kaycee125:
But when you hang her leg for your shoulder you no know.
You are a poor fool.I heard you're a scammer.Track me na.Thousandnaire.
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by mrchineke: 12:25am On Jul 07, 2020
sandrapretty:

Op! Get a divorce sharp sharp!!!

If I get stuck with a woman I no longer love, I will poison her!!!
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by kizyalex10(m): 12:31am On Jul 07, 2020
ollins:
Let me cut the story short. Had a fling with this girl, along the line she got pregnant. You know all that talk of "if you could sleep with her, then you must marry her" "if you got her pregnant then you must marry her", Iooking back now, I wished I hadn't listened to all those voices.

I knew in my heart that I didn't love her, even she knew but the pressure from the family was too much, I had to marry her. On my marriage day I was practically crying within me.

Her character is just opposite of all I wanted in a woman, she's barely educated, loud and loquacious.

That's my cross I am carrying today, stuck in a loveless marriage.

The warmth and Romance is absent from our home, we have not had intimacy since beginning of the year till now, we just have no interest anymore in each other. We are just living together for the sake of our child.

My question now is how does one cope�? Is this how I am going to live the rest of my life?
sometimes i feel like slapping people like you,you are jst in to decieve someone's daughter nd break her heart jst to satisfy ur mannerless manhood,God have catch u,if u no love her then what of ur child, abeg goan sit down wish u re here let me beat u join .ewu
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by Yaks02(m): 12:33am On Jul 07, 2020
sylve11:
You're in for a long thing.
In the hay days when you're telling her you loved her just to spread her like bedsheet on top a sheet, so you're telling lies, isn't it? sad

I will not say much because If you nor know how song take start make you no go hurry dance put, before you go dance GARALA inside ASONTO.... cool


Nemesis is catching up with him bro

Both of u need counseling
email me ur location at yaksdeshi@gmail.com
Let's see if I can help
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by mrchineke: 12:34am On Jul 07, 2020
bukatyne:


I don't how brother just popped into my head o jare. grin

Women missed the plot when they decided to 'sleep' about with commitment aka 'sexual liberation'.

The natural man is a sexual opportunist and will sleep with anything. It takes training, discipline and/ or religion to break out of that pattern. That is why a lady should as much as possible know and understand the dynamics of the relationship before sex.

The natural woman is a sexual victim and will always 'feel' used when a sexual relationship goes wrong. It also takes training, mind renewal and religion (the way it is taught not helpful though) to think differently.

The OP in his sexual opportunist nature slept severally with a girl till she got pregnant. And he can tell us he doesn't love her. Twenty years ago, he would have been flogged in the village square because it is believed at his age, his vision should drive his decisions and not his pen.is

In the spirit of 'freedom and in pursuit of happiness,' he has been told to divorce if he still can't 'feel'.

Anyways, if he got married in the church, he better find the love and build his home with his wife.

There is no provision of divorce due to lack of love and it is 'husbands, love your wives' not 'men, marry who you love.'



Bull crap!

The same churches where everybody is sleeping with each other? Abeg!
Re: How Do You Cope If Married To Someone You Don't Love? by mrchineke: 12:37am On Jul 07, 2020
armyofone:
How did you have a fling with someone you don't love ? How do you have sex with someone you don't love ? You managed to do both with your eyes wide opened, I'm sure. After you done chop finish, you come see clearly?
Forget "loquaciousness" and focus on building your family.


Just shut up!

Go and force it na. When they kill each other no?

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