When you are new to a relationship after a long while of searching, or you are having a tough time with your partner, it is common for people – online in-laws, friends, and family members – to want to share pieces of relationship advice with you, and in your ‘humility’, you want to listen and act on them. The truth, though, is that not all pieces of advice should be followed, to avoid being served breakfast.
We have compiled these popular but scammy pieces of relationship advice for teenagers, Jambites, university undergraduates, and other single pringles growing into adulthood, to ensure that you are well armed to be able to ignore when people try to shove them down your throat.
1. You can keep your partner by always giving them sex – even when you are not ready
I don’t know how this statement gained virality, but it is definitely a big, fat, lie.
Nowadays, a lot of people are having casual sex without any strings attached. So if you think the only way you can keep your partner is by agreeing to have sex with them as much as they want even when you are ready, then you may want to have a rethink.
History is replete with many people who have been in different sexual relationships with partners who ‘broke their virginity’, yet they got a full serving of “breakfast”. Just ask around.
Yes, not everyone experiences that, but the fact that some people do cancels out the truth in that statement. Again, for those at the back, we are saying it loudly: Always agreeing to have sex with your partner – even when you are not ready – will NOT make them stay. It may even make you more vulnerable.
2. A real man doesn’t help his woman in the kitchen
Whoever started the cooking of this idea is most likely a women killjoy (lol).
There is absolutely nothing wrong with helping a woman you love in the kitchen, even if you have both agreed on partner duties.
Doing so doesn’t make you less of a man. In fact, there is an argument that the bond between you and your woman grows stronger when you do one or two with her in the kitchen.
Those giving you that advice just want to dangerously inflate your ego, as a man, and want to cause unnecessary gender war in your relationship. Open your brain and be wise.
3. If they take you to their parents, they actually love you and are planning long-term with you
Lee to the mao. Is this playing? What kind of playing is this thinking?!
May we not meet wicked people o. Ah! Some partners in this century will not make it to heaven se.
You see, in this dating scene, there are people who will take you to their parents’ house just because they are tired of the “when will you marry?” rhetorics. Some will take you there just to make you lose your guard and get you laid. Others may do so to unlock some benefits they had an agreement for with their parents or to even win a bet with friends and siblings.
Woos! People who have ‘put a ring on it’ gan are still serving premium breakfast, how much more ‘take home to mummy’ geng.
If they don’t love you, what will end your visitation will be, “my mum and my pastor prayed for us and they said we aren’t compatible.”
Biko, love is different from taking home to your parents. Don’t fall for that cheap tin.
4. All you need is love, not money
This is quite hilarious because is it love you are going to eat?
Maybe you genuinely love your partner who is broke but there has to be a real plan out of poverty, abeg.
For all the love you share, if the relationship lacks sharing of gifts, money, dates, surprise deliveries, and other relationship spices, you may get tired easily. Not everyone has the grace to be patient and hopeful like Mama Gloria and Mike Bamiloye.
Yes, love is important in a relationship, but money is importanter. In fact, we make bold to say that love is safer with money.
5. If they don’t post you, they are not really into you
Okay. We know about all the controversies surrounding couples identifying with their partners on social media or outrightly flaunting them.
See ehn, person weh post their partner fit cheat. Person weh no post sef get their baggage.
In all honesty, whether your partner ‘posts’ you on social media or not should not define the sweetness of your relationship. Social media is like that family member you would not want to invite to your mini-budget wedding because they have lots of friends that they will help you extend invitation to.
If you are not ready for the heat of the kitchen of social media, it is better you stay out of the kitchen and don’t even start what you cannot finish. But if you think you can handle it and the pressure of online in-laws, then by all means, do what makes you happy.
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Hear us, even if your partner doesn’t ‘flaunt’ you, according to the standards of online in-laws, it doesn’t make you less of a person. Enjoy the off-social media and real life love that you share. That’s what matters most!
6. Love is blind
The last person who said love is blind has recanted o.
MUST READ: He sent ‘apology funds’ after beating me but it just wasn’t enough…
Well, maybe love used to be blind in the days of our great-great-grandfathers and mothers, but not again in this century.
Love can see. If you don’t shine your eyes wide when in love today, your best friend could become your man’s “side-chick”.
Love is not blind. You had better try glasses if it is looking like you’re blinded by love.
7. Women love to be lied to
Nothing beats honesty in a relationship. You see, telling lies to your woman is like planting your rice on rocky soil. It cannot grow.
Don’t let anyone lie to you. Women don’t like to be lied to. If you tell them the truth, you will earn their trust and respect.
On a final note, here’s a piece of advice you should never forget. If anyone calls you and attempts to give you any relationship advice that looks like any of the above, that fellow doesn’t love you.
But over here, only love lives here and that’s why we are sharing the truth. If you have a counter opinion, we’d be glad to hear from you in the comments section. And if you love this, to forget to hit the like button and share with your crib.
