By BIMBOLA AMAO
Most women around here want marriages. For every girl that gets giddy because some guy took to his knee with a ring in his hand, I want to pull her back and ask, “Do you really want to do this?” Marriage is hard work, and most times the woman does the bulk of the work. So what is the excitement about this work you are about to start?
I can’t even be consoled by the promise of intimacy and companionship, love and tenderness, and the unending promises. Women tend to prefer intimacy but I am the girl who wants space, plenty of it. I don’t want to be smothered and no, I’m not unhappy.
A working relationship is hard work. Good marriages call for harder work. And chores – about 80% of our lives are made up of chores. Eating, cleaning, washing, ironing. Add childcare to that list, then visiting families, husband care. That’s so much work for a lazy ass like me. The modern wife will have this idea about sharing chores with her husband. Dear Mrs. Wife, the bulk of house chores will still fall on you ma’am.
Then there is husband care – and one cannot delegate that in monogamy; supporting him, prioritizing him, admiring him, making sexual advances at him, cheering his team and cooking badass meals. That’s for a non-conclusive list. I am not the girl who wants to turn her kitchen into a creative studio and be arranging cauliflowers over carrots, or making a swan out of pineapples and melons. Can we eat and go away? I only cook because one has to eat, period.
Five out of seven days, I don’t want to be a wife. I do not feel like it but I string along. Before you think someone is pummelling my face with dirty words or heavy blows, I live with a perfect gentleman. It’s just me, my wife material must be about two yards, it can only sew a skimpy dress.
Some women do these like goddesses day in and day out. I lack that power.
I have come up with a proposition – Can we just be married one week out of the four in a month? Or maybe the last weekend of the month?
Don’t laugh at me, I envy polygamists. Not the ones believing God for their children’s school fees please, we are talking about billionaires.
Imagine life as the sixth wife of a billionaire. Your life is bliss. You have no problem worrying how to stock the fridge while the sun is burning skins in Agege market. You can fold your hands and pretend you did not hear the deafening thunder announcing the heavens are about to let down heavy waters, it’s not your duty to worry about the aired laundry. You are not bothered about what to cook or eat after a long day. You are already spoilt for choice.
You have staff you are not sure of their job descriptions. There is the gardener who is not the ‘maiguard’, and the house manager who is not the nanny, and then you have a bright young girl as a P.A who locks down your ‘busy itinerary’, and an exclusive driver to take you wherever you want to go.
Your real-life job is to enjoy life; every other thing is a decoy. You are at every event and conference that catches your fancy.
The Emerging Leadership conference – Present
The Praying and Sexy Wife gig – Present
Running With and Without heels – Present
How to Rock your Toddler without Fuss – Present
101 Ways to Achieve Excellence – Present
NOK Wine Tasting Fiesta – Present
You are the hot speaker at events in which you have no expertise on the topic, but your wallet is too big to be ignored by organisers. Vacation is where you want to be and when you decide, you aren’t waiting for that summer rush, it’s all about checking the weather updates before booking the flights.
You can lie down in peace and read ‘Everything Good Will Come’, then write a glowing review of the book and mail Sefi Attah to invite her for dinner, you can decide to call Toni Kan and discuss how to make ‘Carnivorous City’ into a bestselling movie.
Then you get to be a wife just one weekend in four weeks, because rotational husband. So the chef cooks and sets the table for the king, you are only supervising. Then that weekend romp will not kill you, then you get to do all the supporting and cheering and whatever you have on your husband care list for three days and you are back to being a full time free-bird for another 27 days.
Isn’t that sweet? Why do girls even fight polygamy?
Before you start calling me all sorts of names, this is not my real handwriting.
We are in this monogamy together by fire by force. *Rises up to make semolina for the husband*