As a newly married woman in Nigeria, it feels like everyone — family, friends, strangers — expects you to fall pregnant immediately. People start monitoring you. It is always the woman they monitor.
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What I Chose Not to Do at My Weddings
I wasn’t expecting to get married this year, 2025. I wasn’t expecting to get married EVER. Why? Because I didn’t want to. As a little girl, I never fantasized about having a husband. And yet, surprise! Here I am, married, and blinking like, “Did I just...?”
