Couple goal is not what you see on social media, warns Nigerian relationship expert
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Couple goal is not what you see on social media, warns Nigerian relationship expert

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A Nigerian motivational blogger and relationship expert, Mrs Sonia Ogbonna, has warned social media users not to believe everything they see or read on the internet, calling them an illusion.

 

Sonia says that life lessons come from experience, which sometimes involves “struggle, pain and frustration.

While decrying the idea of marriage as a societal concoct for orderliness, the blogger notes that two people nevertheless can co-exist together where there is love, honest friendship and forgiveness, factors she notes that can help “us grow and become better.”

The blogger also warns against becoming complacent, greedy, unappreciative, taking all and giving nothing back.

She ends her write up with a shout-out to her husband who she says has supported her along the way admitting that her relationship with her husband is not always a smooth sailing “but at the end of the day, we always remember to go back on the right track whenever we get lost,” she says.

 

 

Read her full post, lightly edited for clarity:

@sonialareinaa: “Couple Goals” is the greatest illusion of 21st century. You think someone’s life is perfect because of a nice picture on IG. Lol. My friends, my wisdom didn’t come from books. My write-ups are the result of many lessons I have learnt from my struggle, pain and frustration. However, I choose to keep it real because there is light in truth and we don’t have to feel like losers just because things don’t seem to be perfect all the time.Honestly, I have never liked the idea of marriage. I hated it because it seemed like a zone where we appreciate nothing and demand for everything just because. Even today I feel like the whole ‘marriage’ thing is not there to serve us, but to serve society by impacting tones of norms that are meant to control us, lock us inside the box and decide what is wrong and right on our behalf.“It took me time, tears, depression, endless arguments and literally madness to understand the purpose of two people coexisting together. But it clicked somehow, somewhere… UNION. Just two people and their own world.

I do love the idea of deep, HONEST friendship that forgives imperfections and helps us grow and become better. But I’m also aware that that’s something we gradually need to learn how to apply in real life. At times we all forget to count blessings for a moment or two. We become greedy, we seek flows, we forget to appreciate. We demand love but we don’t ask ourselves if we are giving it out as well.

“Many times I forgot to give credit to this man of mine for everything that he is. Do you know how difficult I am to handle? Strong minded woman with revolution on her mind 24/7. Lol. Average man’s pride can’t deal with me. Ever.

I made many mistakes but the biggest one is not appreciating you every moment of my day.

Thank you for babysitting me from the time I was barely 23?I know it’s not easy dealing with a savage like me that doesn’t like being tamed/’submissive’ (I hate that bloody word). And the freedom you gave me is the highest proof of love you have for me.

Nothing is perfect about us, but at the end of the day, we always remember to go back on the right track whenever we get lost. I love you Boss?

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