TILL DEATH SET US APART
Don't get me wrong when I say that our marital love life has nothing to do with age. With the climax marriage has reached, I wonder why our husbands are no more romantic these days. Once they clock 50 years and above, romance stops. This is the experience that couples experience in marriage, it is a no joke. We all are related to that and I kept on asking where in the Bible that God says that once you are 50 years and above, you stop being romantic. I do not see stew(love) in some marriages, all that rampages is sauce(let us manage each other). Forgetting that what God has joined together let no man(including age) put asunder. The word "asunder" is not only applicable to infidelity, health conditions.
Each morning I do eavesdrop to hear when our older fathers, uncles will call their wives "baby" or say "how was your night darling." None came forth. What we hear presently these days are "Mama Michael give me food to eat, Nkechi have you gone to the market?." They address their wives by their first names. In some families the men still practise Lordship attitude. Men make their wives to see them as King, their wives do not give opinions when they make decisions. And they will mutter these nonsense words "that is final, I am not changing my mind." Forgetting that in marriage there is no such thing as "two bodies" rather one body in love.
Our mothers do tell us love stories of how our fathers romantically fought to win their hearts against all odds. Despite that other men were after them to get their hearts as well but they prefer our fathers only. Gave them their all and all. Their sweet romance continued but dropped immediately they got older.
Brother if you can't be romantic to me when we are old, then I don't need the romance now we are still young. If you can't listen and adhere to my opinions when we are getting old, then you do not have to do it now that we are young. I still need those romantic stew(love) that you prepared after you won my heart till death set us apart at old age. You can't come and deceive somebody's daughter with your sweet tongue later to be calling her mama Nkechi, Chioma etc. I won't take itooo. Age is just a number, it has nothing to do with our love lives.
Dear men, we the association of lovely wives still need you to address us by these names "darling, baby, honey, my sugar." Those romantic names and lovely treatment do not expire with age.
Dear women, we the association of romantic husbands want you to continue to show us love and call us romantic names even when there are no teeth anymore, when our bodies and hands shake with age.
Each morning I do eavesdrop to hear when our older fathers, uncles will call their wives "baby" or say "how was your night darling." None came forth. What we hear presently these days are "Mama Michael give me food to eat, Nkechi have you gone to the market?." They address their wives by their first names. In some families the men still practise Lordship attitude. Men make their wives to see them as King, their wives do not give opinions when they make decisions. And they will mutter these nonsense words "that is final, I am not changing my mind." Forgetting that in marriage there is no such thing as "two bodies" rather one body in love.
Our mothers do tell us love stories of how our fathers romantically fought to win their hearts against all odds. Despite that other men were after them to get their hearts as well but they prefer our fathers only. Gave them their all and all. Their sweet romance continued but dropped immediately they got older.
Brother if you can't be romantic to me when we are old, then I don't need the romance now we are still young. If you can't listen and adhere to my opinions when we are getting old, then you do not have to do it now that we are young. I still need those romantic stew(love) that you prepared after you won my heart till death set us apart at old age. You can't come and deceive somebody's daughter with your sweet tongue later to be calling her mama Nkechi, Chioma etc. I won't take itooo. Age is just a number, it has nothing to do with our love lives.
Dear men, we the association of lovely wives still need you to address us by these names "darling, baby, honey, my sugar." Those romantic names and lovely treatment do not expire with age.
Dear women, we the association of romantic husbands want you to continue to show us love and call us romantic names even when there are no teeth anymore, when our bodies and hands shake with age.
Comments
Post a Comment