Money & Relationship
What are your thoughts on romantic relationships and finances, do you think a relationship is possible to work out perfectly without money being a factor. Money is a great factor in relationships, be it friendship, family or romantic relationships. In Nigeria, nothing is as important as making and having money. Even if you come from a rich home it’s still important to make sure you make and have money. This is basically because wealth and money is relative, your family could be worth $10 Million in asset but poor in cash, meaning that if there ever come a time where the family needs cash and there is this person in the family who is always cash available, the family will always respect that person more. Today is my maternal uncle’s birthday, even though everyone in the family is okay financially, he is the richest. Always there to provide financially when the family needs cash, so this makes me him the most respected member of the family even though he is not the eldest child.
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Today is his birthday and everyone celebrated him by posting him everywhere on social media, this highly shows the importance of money in relationships. This story is just from the family point of view, let’s look at the romantic point of view. I live in a country where women see romantic relationship as a means to escape bills and some poverty. People first impression to a beautiful lady is that she must be dating a rich person, when a man is in relationship with a lady they expect him to pay all her bills. Most girls don’t want to work, most girls don’t have goals and ambitions aside finding a rich husband or boyfriend.
Dating is really expensive because you can’t spend without thinking of the well being of your partner. When you make money, you are expected to spend it with your partner, when the lady starts having money or starts making more money than the male partner, it’s expected that she finds a male partner that is better than her. Your relationship can never be interesting if you dont have money. This is because while you are trying to fend for yourself you are also thinking about your partner.
In the platonic friendship part, if you are on the side that is always requesting for financial help constantly, getting bailed out by your friends, you friends will start losing their respect for you or interest, this is because you are considered a liability to these friends and no one wants or likes a liability. If you are the giver a friends group, the one that bails everyone out financially, you get more respect. This doesn’t apply to all friendship though.
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