Linda Ikeji
Marriage is not an achievement. There is so much more to life than being someone’s wife. Get married please, but don’t be pressured into it. I don’t know how many of you single girls are under pressure to get married but I am. Pressure from family, friends and people who just can’t mind their business. The pressure is so intense right now I feel like going to husband market – if there is any such thing- to buy myself some breathing space. Give me a break you people.
Chioma ‘Chigul’ Omeruah
in my opinion, the pressure is not a fabrication. It is very real!
After you have worn asoebi about a million times, you begin to wonder
when it is going to be your turn to sell asoebi too! And when you factor
in mums and aunties constantly reminding you of the shelf life of
women. It gets to you, even if it is just a bit. People may even suggest
some very strange things to you to do to ‘earn’ marriage. Well, I have
come to realise that we allow ourselves to be pressured. The decision to
get married should not be taken because you are being pressured, that
could lead to a disaster. Don’t let anyone make you go into anything you
are not ready for or your joy may be shortlived. And to those mounting
pressure on others to go and get married, there is simply no
justification for your behaviour.
Betty Irabor
I don’t think women should be worried about being married before 30
because many women before that age have not yet gone through the school
of life which prepares them for marriage. In Africa and some other parts
of the world, society tends to view an unmarried woman as being
incomplete, however, the cloud of modernity is slowly changing the trite
belief.
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