BACKGROUND FACT

With very few exceptions, most women marry men that are lower in stature than their fathers. After all it is very rare to find twenty and early thirty-something that come ready made enough. The result of this is that most women find themselves moving to a "lower-class" neighborhood. Granted for some the move is from south-east ikoyi to park view, but the general principle holds.

THE STORY

Most women accept this intellectually, however when push comes to shove they may discover that intellectually is not the same as actually. Case in point is the delightful story I heard about the NEPA couple.

So after the marriage the couple moved into the husband's house - a nice three bedroom flat in central ikeja (probably around oregun side). The husband got himself a nice little honda petrol generator that can power a few fans and generally keep the place "cool-ish"

After a couple of months katakata burst in that house. You see it turns out that the wife was from one of those all gen all the time type families. To her NEPA was something that happened to other people. She could not deal with sleeping without A/C maybe one night a year, but all this day after day no A/C was not what she signed up for.

So the lady loved her husband, and new that she would come to hate him if this situation continued. She was honest with herself enough to know that she was just that type of person. She came up with a solution that she thought was best for everyone. She suggested to her husband that they move into her father's house for a short while to give her respite from the heat.

THE KOKO

Now you are the husband, and you love your wife. She has been complaining about this light situation for a couple of months. You know you cannot afford anything more than the 5kva generator that you are currently using. You know that there is the risk that the "short while" can turn into "until you can afford a 17kva"? However you also feel resentment that "for better or worse" came with the NEPA exception clause.

What do you do? Do you move for peace or stay for manhood?

Let me know what y'all think.

P.S. This post is dedicated to one of the not-so newlyweds I know, happy birthday babe, much love. I know she wouldn't have wanted to move back :D

Hey y'all I'm back again after another lengthy hiatus. I would swear that I'm here to stay this time, but I don't know if you would believe it. Notwithstanding 36 biting my idea :D I continue on with the Aijuswanaread series, and will now complete the last three members of my fam. So without further ado:

Geisha.Song: She deserves honorable mention as the only person I know who currently reads my blog. Well she may not read it, but she is the only follower I have sha! She's a relatively random witty person; from sticking her tounge out at us as she whizzes past on her BRT bus, through scolding us for not leaving proper comments, to scandalizing us with illicit lurve she always manages to stay on point. Even though her penchant for big brother africa leaves a lot to be desired. She hit a new high with what I decided was her signature post (series in this case) - the ongoing Twelve Days of Christmas.

Uzo: Even with her unfortunate love for indian movies, it is easy to come to the conclusion that Uzo rocks. She is a scary music head as her myriad music series would show you (my fave being the He Sang She Sang) She also never met a meme she didn't like. I mean how many does one have to do before she is all memed out. We became cool during her hosting of The Bachelor series on blogville. I planted myself as one of the main judges, and honesty compels me to admit that I was awesome. She was blined by my awesomness and quickly came to my blog to look for me, and the rest as they say is history. Her signature posts for me were her women's issue posts insightfully raising awareness one post at a time :D She's gone away now, even though I don't get the whole staying for 595 posts versus 600 thing, smacks of laziness to me ;)

Cheetarah: Now I suppose technically she had a blog, but I have not seen an update on my reader since November 2007 when she went bye bye shutting down her blog in the process. However she has been one of my more consistent commenters, even though she does not believe in signing in and such. The only way I know it's her most times is because of her decision to label me God's Son. Knowing she reads is one of the few constants in this my blogging life. Here's to you chee ;)

Looking at it and seeing only 8 people that I can fairly call my blog fam, probably means that I should get out a bit more in blogville :D Still it is what it is. Stay tuned in the near future for the Stalkees. Laters.