By GenRay Micheal.
In my honest opinion, I think bride price should be reviewed again! Because the purpose why men were required to pay A PRICE for a woman has really changed. Let me give you a little history. In the past women were not valued and were treated as slaves. Men took wives to help them work on their farms and also make babies. Most men wanted to have sons rather than daughters… So those who had daughters DEMANDED A PRICE from the man. Now anything that has a PRICE MEANS IT IS BEING SOLD and once sold it it owned by the one who payed the price.. Now the one who is paying the price has the right to be sure that he is getting what he is paying for.. 👉👉
The PRICES of brides were based on QUALIFICATIONS like her chastity, modesty, training, skills, efficiency, fertility etc. This means if a woman was lazy, not a virgin, with no skills to help her husband her price was very low or no price was paid for her at all… She would be given for free else she might never be taken. So mothers spent a lot of time training their daughters to be respectful, humble, submissive, serviceable, faithful, have skills to be able to help their future husband’s so that they can have a high PRICE as brides… so some women had very high prices because of how much they had to offer their husband’s. Ie, women were raised to serve their husband’s… 👉👉👉
Today you will see a lady who had a child at age 14yrs and another one with different man at 16.. Then when one man decides to marry her at age 30, the family will pull a long list of BRIDE PRICE for the man to pay.. wait o.. Sometimes the price is even more than that of a virgin.. Instead of the family to pay the guy with some money to take care of the bastards and their daughter.. They will be demanding huge Sums of money from the young man. You’ll meet a lady at age 17 with 3 abortions already, awful virginal odour, a lady who claims equality with man hence doesn’t wash, clean, or serve the husband BUT THE MAN HAS TO PAY BRIDE PRICE? eii
You’ll meet a lady who drinks alcohol and smokes shisha and weed.. Her womb is roasted like Jamaican barbicue, multiple sexual partners making her breast as flat as Tanzanian chapati.. Her vagina canal is as wide as the valley of the shadow of death…. Someone that street boys can draw her nakedness with pencil in their left hand… And her parent will be stressing you with long list of bride price.. No way! Bride price should be a reflection of the actual worth of the woman. If I’m going to pay a price so dear for something it must really benefit me… Otherwise No thanks!
AGAIN bide price must be Scrapped because today A WOMAN CAN ALSO DIVORCE A MAN – This was not so in the past. Imagine you pay a price for a car and the company comes back for the car claiming the car says it doesn’t want you any longer…! anything you pay a price to get belongs to you until YOU DECIDE TO DISOWN IT. a woman you have paid heavily for can wake up the next day and say “babe I don’t feel happy in this marriage and it’s not your fault, you’re a wonderful husband..” then she’ll park out of the house. THEN THE LAW WILL ASK YOU TO PAY HER ALIMONY ON TOP… ah! they will even collect your children and give them to her and tell you to still be paying their fees and child support.. 👉👉
OK maybe you didn’t understand the previous paragraph.. After you have spent a fortune to pay for her price, and another fortune to meet her fantasy wedding.. She still gets to walk out of the marriage anytime she wants.. And when she does, you the man are required to share all your money and property with her 50/50. the same women who hate to hear contributing 50/50 in marriage, will take 50% of all you have and in some cases they take more than that if they have some good lawyers… And a man will fall from grace to grass.. Just because you fell in love and paid BRIDE PRICE…
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A man will pay all this price and bring a woman to his home and the woman Will be raising her voice on top of this man.. Refuse to cook for him, ask him to share chores, and when you want to make love to her some women will even ask you to pay before they allow you.. In most cases it looks as if the women rather paid THE PRICE FOR THE MEN.. .. IMAGINE paying bride price for a woman and she is cheating on you with a man who hasn’t PAID A KOBO! something you paid for.. Someone is enjoying for absolutely free….. I should pay bride price so that you come and control me in my house? Eiii bride price is a scam! 👉👉👉
On this note I think bride price should be totally scrapped. Some men, after they have paid such huge amounts as bride price obtain a sense of entitlement over the WIFE as if he has bought her and begins to treat her anyhow. If bride price is to be paid then it must be worth it.. Then it must follow the principles upon which it was established- The woman must be deserving of her price. The price must reflect the value the woman is about to add to her husband. Men are always willing to pay for anything that can add value to their lives. It shouldn’t just be because someone wants to marry a woman so he has to pay a price.
When this is done then a woman will be forced to add value to themselves and avoid promiscuous lifestyle knowing that their value and price will keep dropping if they live that way. You can’t live as a slay queen on social media, publicly announce that you slept with this and that, have no skills, then when a man decides to marry you, the family will now bring a tall list of bride price when they played no role in bringing you up to be a responsible woman for your husband.Growing up it was for this reason that women who slept around kept it a secret and it was a shame for a man to point at a lady and say I slept with her. Today women stand on national TV to say they slept with men.
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