29/11/2025
I have always said that, marriage thrives on 3 major pillars.
1) Kindness
2) Deliberate commitment
3) Selflessness
A man married his wife, was a kind provider, and was responsible for his wife and their children.
He played his role as the major provider, and still doing it, without any major financial assistance from his wife.
But instead of his wife to be appreciative & kind to him, at an older age when he's getting weaker and the economy is affecting his finances, she is refusing to do that, and hinging on how he was taking care of their children, and neglected her.
How did he neglect her?
Was he not feeding her?
Did he allow her not to work?
Was he depending on her financially?
Was she the one paying the school fees, rent etc?
All he wanted was a wife who would be kind, loving to their children, & raise them with him.
But she complained, envied the children, & never visited them in school.
Was she in competition with her husband or her children?
A man and a woman is supposed to come together as husband & wife, put aside their personal interests, and focus on the interests of the entire family, & the children that God has blessed them with.
The man playing his roles, and the wife playing her roles.
The man being the main provider and leader, and the wife being the support and care.
If the man has done this for 24 years, and the economy starts to affect his financial strength, the woman is supposed to step in, and be his fulcrum.
Not feeling happy that he can no longer fulfill his roles as he used to, as if he abandoned his responsibilities when he had the means to do so.
If you marry an unkind woman, this may be your story in the future.
Clearly, she was financially not strong enough to challenge the man's authority, & deal with him as she may have wished.
And the man knew who he married, and so he channeled his resources towards giving their children a good foundation, rather than investing in a woman to an extent that she would be bigger than he is, and then start looking up to another man.
He led her how she should be led, according to her character, and not how she wanted to be led.
But to her, it is now looking like pay back time.
Which should not be.
Rather, she should he grateful that she got married to a responsible husband and father, who sacrificed for his family.
Again, you'll notice the signs in your relationships.
When you have a girlfriend who wants you to do more for her, than you do for yourself or your siblings, then do not expect her to extend kindness towards your children.
Even if they are your biological children.
A woman who wants to be deliberately committed to you, will invest in you, while you invest in the future of both of you.
And that future, is the future of the responsibilities that you would shoulder as a husband and father.
If it's always "me, me, me" for her, then you're dating an unkind woman.
And in the right time, all that you had ignored because you love her, will become your reality.
Imagine if that man had experienced financial problems at the very early stage of their marriage?
Would his wife had supported him?
End.