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Jemima Lawal Nigeria Small business owner @ Self employed
In Literature, Writing and Blogging 3 min read
I THOUGHT I KNEW EVERYTHING AT 20
<p>You'll think you know marriage until you find out he doesn't flush the toilet</p><p><br/></p><p>Calm down, my own husband sha dey flush toilet 😂</p><p><br/></p><p>But the point is.... at 20 I could easily fantasize about what I thought marriage would be.</p><p>Now I'm 28 and it's not like that at all.</p><p><br/></p><p>Told myself I'd have an elite family and a smart baby and my baby isn't not smart (if that even makes sense), but tell me why this tiny human decided to put biscuit inside my washing machine 🤦🏼‍♀️. Maybe that's why they call them kids... Cuz they're as stubborn as goats</p><p><br/></p><p>I don vex break phone repair am the next day before....</p><p>But am I supposed to put my toddler inside rice and start over?</p><p>You see it's actually complicated 😂😂😂</p><p><br/></p><p>I owe my mother an apology for saying she kept acting like parenthood was a big deal</p><p>It's a big deal o 😭</p><p><br/></p><p>Everyday is a race for protecting my child from unaliving herself 😭. Are babies suicidal or they just don't know consequences exist</p><p><br/></p><p>When I got married I thought I knew it all</p><p>There was so much I thought I knew at twenty that I realised as time went by , I actually didn't know.</p><p><br/></p><p>First is "marry your best friend".</p><p>I genuinely thought they were saying that just so that you'll have fun in your marriage 😭😭</p><p>Omo marry your best friend ooo</p><p><br/></p><p>Marriage will frustrate you. Maybe not all the time. But there are days when you'll want to feel unmarried because it gets overwhelming</p><p>But marrying your best friend makes it less so</p><p>It makes it easier to forgive each others flaws</p><p>It makes it easier to enjoy each other</p><p>Makes it easier to still find deep love in the most ordinary days. And that's the beauty of marrying your best friend. There are days when I don't want my husband. I want my best friend</p><p><br/></p><p>Second thing....</p><p>I thought being married meant spending every second together</p><p>In the kitchen, in the bathroom, bedroom, EVERYWHERE!</p><p>I didn't even realise how much I hated having company in the kitchen until I got married 😭</p><p>Yes we spend time together, but at least 48% of the time we'd be doing our own thing</p><p>But that's just part of marriage</p><p><br/></p><p>I won't lie at the beginning I nearly thought my marriage was defective</p><p><br/></p><p>But it's just how our marriage works.</p><p><br/></p><p>Three, I thought motherhood couldn't be as bad as they painted it to be.</p><p><br/></p><p>It's bad</p><p>It's that bad!</p><p>My daughter just turned three and I won't lie the last three years have been very overwhelming.</p><p>I always thought female children were easier to raise than boys</p><p>FAT LIE</p><p>My daughter climbs anything and everything</p><p>I feel like I'm not even allowed to blink</p><p><br/></p><p>If she's not falling inside water, she's trying to enter washing machine, or falling something, or trying to put her hand inside socket</p><p>At some point we had to baby proof the house but I don't this she understands warning signs just yet</p><p>Mini me has no boundaries</p><p>The expectation was cuteness and matching outfits and having her love me more than anything but apparently I'm just the food lady and dada is the original parent.</p><p>It is well</p><p><br/></p><p>I think I should stop here for now</p><p><br/></p><p>Also since this is my first post , I guess I should introduce myself</p><p><br/></p><p>I'm Jemima, and I'm an expert in surviving toddler chaos 🥰❤️.</p><p>Please follow and like and leave your comments too</p><p>Would you like to see more of these??</p><p><br/></p><p>Thank you 🤭</p><p><br/></p><p>And yes my photo is AI generated. Make Una no vex o 😂</p>

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