Chick Chat With Cornelia O’Dwyer: Monster In-Laws
Hello Guys! It’s #TalkTuesday A.K.A #ChickChat. Should you consider your in laws before you make your choice of a life partner? Or is love between husband and wife alone enough? This question still plagues me.
To be honest, I don’t think “Love” is enough. You would be wise to consider if your in laws are cantankerous. For me, these are pertinent dating questions, is your mom alive, how many sisters do you have? ?
I met a guy a couple of weeks ago at Bottles and in our chats he mentioned he had 5 sisters, with him being the youngest. He said he liked me and wanted to get to know me better so I politely told him before my chuckle that we could never work out and he shouldn’t start catching feelings.
He laughed and tried to be persistent thinking I was “funny”. I told him I am certain he is NOT my bae and it didn’t matter how “lovely” they were. Truth is, I may sound ignorant to some BUT I can’t date a guy with 5 sisters! I truly believe 4.5 of them will be messy little witches. He said his sisters were the best and quite harmless but honestly, that was the end of that for me. I’m the only girl with two older brothers. Call it last born syndrome but our dynamics are so different.
So, in gisting with my girlies, my ladies “in-waiting” I wondered if I was silly for having such thoughts and some seemed to agree with me. He is the only boy and youngest of 5 female siblings! That has got to be a clash? No?
Dating over 30 seems to be a gift and a curse. You like what you like, know what you want and don’t want. Bullshit is bullshit and I just can’t play no games. Some say don’t knock it till you try like my friend Biola.
Biola who just got married said her 69-year-old mother in law is as cheeky as they come and she can only pray for God to do what it do soon.The first day she met Biola, the woman gave her a non-discreet glance over and the first thing she said was “ah we don’t do fat women in this family o, you must come down. Come and tell me what you eat, do you eat a lot of junk” Biola is a UK 14 US 10.
What a mouthful for the first meet!! He has a ‘funny’ sister too. She is the eldest and she seems to ALWAYS go into the other room whenever Biola comes by (or never comes out of the room when she shows up).
It works for my crazy friend because she hates small talk and is an observer anyway but there is nothing as uncomfortable as receiving hostility from your “new family”. I asked her what she said to her mother in law after she called her fat, she said she responded in Yoruba: “Ah mummy, Wale likes my juicy bum bum, he is always squeezing it” ? I died. Biola is cut out for “ile-oko”.
She has the guts to respond to shade thrown by anyone yet you would never pick her out in a room. Cool as a cucumber but don’t try her.
No situation is perfect in the end and I guess we must manage or adapt to whatever situation we find ourselves in BUT #OhLordHearMyPrayer I can’t handle me no man with 5 sisters. Can everyone get away with Biola’s response? This might seem a petty example but observe beyond your spouses personality because in laws are a major cause of divorces. Know yourself no be curse. Biola believes I’m up to the task. Ha! Do you?