By Glory Edozien
Men
are hard to find, a good man…even harder. At least that’s what we women
have been made to believe over the years. As soon as you find that man
who ticks most or all of your boxes, you got to keep that dude on lock
down or risk him being snatched from under your finely manicured finger
nails. Plus we women pour out a lot into our significant others, we
build them up when the world try’s to take them apart, we make sure we
create enough stability at home so they have the confidence to stand
tall among their peers and we try our hardest to help him dust off those
bad habits. Eventually, we turn him into the man of our dreams, or at
least we try to. Therefore you can imagine that the thought of another
women walking away with our trophy man, after we’ve spent years
painstakingly building him up, is a bit too much for most women to bear.
Perhaps, this is what US First Lady,
Michelle Obama was thinking recently. In April, the National Enquirer
alleged in that Mrs Obama had banned both actresses Scarlett Johansson
and Kerry Washington from the White House because they were ‘too flirty’
with the President. The tabloid also suggested that the First Lady has a
‘watch list’ of women that were to be kept away from her 50-year-old
tall, dark and handsome husband.
Naturally, the White House has dismissed
these claims as ‘completely false’ but can you blame her if it was
true? Who would want to go down in the history books as being the first
African American 1st Lady to have a Monica Lewinsky episode…or to have her husband stolen from her right there in the White House….err no thank you!
Mrs Obama and the validity of these
rumors, aside, I’ve heard of many women who have gone to great lengths
to keep women away from their husbands. Different strategies, from
threatening suspected women to even having them beat up. I remember a
while ago a friend of mine got slapped at a party by her colleague’s
wife. The wife, who was 5months pregnant, at the time, had seen a
picture of my friend hugging her husband and feared the worst. Her plan
had been to threaten my friend with some harsh words but things turned
ugly when my friend tried to walk away, Madame pulled her back by her
hair and gave her a good smack across the face. Off course, it was left
to me and a few other friends to tear both women apart, as the man in
contention had suddenly disappeared.
Although I can’t completely vouch for my
friend, I do wonder if the wife’s slapping actions were entirely
appropriate. Many have argued that if a man wants to stay with you, he
will. If he doesn’t, it doesn’t matter how many women you slap, threaten
or beat up, he’ll still get up one day and not come back. Plus, if any
woman feels the need to ban, beat or provide any kind of embargo within
her relationship, perhaps that suggests that there might be other issues
she needs to deal with first? Or am I approaching this from the wrong
angle? Do men need protecting? Do we as their girlfriends/wives have the
responsibility to protect them from other women? If that’s the case,
how far will you go to keep your man?
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