Before I finally proposed to my wife I asked her...”there is a 99% good chance I end up on the pulpit, will you still marry a man that stops chasing being a professional to being a pulpiteer?” She said ‘no problem’.
She hit back at me....
“Do you pay tithe, do you believe in it and will you allow your wife to pay her tithe?
I was like....is that the biggest spiritual condition you have to table before me?
Omo, if you like, tithe yourself 100% to God, as long as you don’t mind seeing your man on the pulpit, then the case is closed. The rest can be worked out....just marry me!
So that was it....
The only differences we have....
She likes fresh milk....I like powdered and evaporated milk.
She likes sliced bread...I like tear bread...proper agege or Abuja bread.
It is wickedness and very evil to place a knife on a fresh agege bread to cut into slices just because you want to eat beans, stew or fried egg or drink tea.
Tear the life out of that bread and dunk it gloriously like a basketball in that hot tea and let it drip before catapulting it to your 32 grinders....or rather use the decapitated bread to scoop beans....life is good.
Anyways, point is, going into marriage, there are non-negotiable areas that can never and must never be crossed based on convictions. The remaining negotiable of marital life cover the bread, milk, toothpaste, brush-before-bathing or brush-after-bathing dichotomies.
Though I still pray for the salvation of those who brush teeth after bathing, I will still manage them as I am coping with one. She is also praying that I am saved from my cloth hangers wardrobe orientation. If I want to hang clothes in the wardrobe, the hanger head-hook must face me rather than face the inside of the wardrobe! My hanger head must face me...I need to see who is facing me and not the back of the curved head!
Nonetheless, I have been partially delivered from putting cutleries, knives and etc in the fridge thanks to somebody who stood her ground. But thank God for my half bachelor life in Glasgow, all my mugs, plates, cutleries are back in the fridge.
So to those going into marriage tomorrow, congratulations to you both!
But do know that the day after tomorrow, and the week after honeymoon, there will be no pretence again! It will now be time to face the real truth and then to start compromising and deciding on what habit to let go. Stay with the good ones and let go of the bad ones if they will be really harmful.
Marriage can be good...only if we learn to accommodate the other in a good way. And to the guys that have not decided on who to settle with....this is a very dangerous season....if you don’t want a baby mama, don’t let those summer dresses get you out of line.
Enjoy your future. Break over. Good night.
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