Later it is.
If you are planning a wedding and want my opinion on how early or late pregnancies should start loading…? My answer is simple, especially if you had a short term courtship period. Let the kids wait patiently for at least two years. That way, mom and dad would have wearied themselves out with fun before responsibilities star creeping in.
Kids are sweet. However, they come with big responsibilities; financial, emotional and even physical. They need you and everything you got to give them a good life.
So, I support this husband. The bonding would have cemented really well like concrete before a baby’s cry is heard. Some want to have their kids immediately and start doing other things with their lives especially with the biological clock ticking.
My answer sha is for the young and Restless. The newly weds who still have long years ahead of them. The fun before kids is different oh. After kids, things change drastically… You can’t answer the door in your undies. You can’t turn the kitchen dining table to a mattress. Your car has a permanent companion and so on.
He and wifey decided to wait a bit and enjoy the marriage before they start getting pregnant, then, this happened.
Before I got married to my wife, we had discussed that there’d be a two year wait period before the kids start coming.
I mean we sure would procreate, but I wanted first the solitude of her companionship.
Getting home to meet her butt naked and also having to welcome her home with barely no clothes on.
To dedicate these two years in loving her alone and perfectly; and amongst other things, the crazy sex around every corner of the house, without caring who would be watching.
She agreed.
So after we got married, she suggested we get a pet at least.
Alright, that was fine by me.
So I asked her what kinda dog she loves. A pitbull, a boerboel or an Alsatian?
But she nodded in the negative and told me she doesn’t love dogs, instead she’d go for a cat.
“Cat?” (Cats give me hysterics) I asked in concern and continued.
“Baby a monkey would have been a better alternative, or even a giant lizard. Which one is a cat kwanu?”
And she pleaded her insistence.
“Darling, cats are beautiful animals, and they are sexy creatures too.”
Atokwa’m!
There was no way you could win an argument against a woman you really love, so I gave in. But quite uncomfortably.
So a week after, on her way back from work, she brought home a cage with a cat inside.
But I was shocked when upon opening the lid, a fully grown cat walked out.
“Baby! I thought you were gonna get a kitten at least?”
I screamed.
And she went on about how she loves the fur colour of this one and it’s face.
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As I speak to you, I am sincerely no more free in this house.
I swear this cat looks at me as though it knows me from somewhere.
I would be walking to the kitchen, cat would see me, arch it back, hang it’s tail and focus it’s gaze on me, until I turn instead towards the bathroom.
Power would go off, and as I make for the bedroom, I would see two shiny eyes looking at me from under the stairs.
Or is it even when cat would meow and start coming towards me.
It’s not as if I am afraid o.
But how do I tell my wife that this is not an ordinary cat?
© Noel Ijezie