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  • 28 Things Only Single Nigerian Ladies Can Understand

    As a single pringle…

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    1. Your parents keep asking about your prospects.

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    I can���t tell the future, sir.

    2. Or worrying if you���d still be able to have kids.

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    Will my ovaries just dry up?

    3. Or insisting you���re getting too old.

    …even though you���re like thirty!

    4. Your aunties trying to set you up with their friends��� doctor son.

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    But I don���t know him now!

    5. All your friends think they can solve your singleness.

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    Thanks, but no thanks.

    6. Twitter says you’re “too opinionated”, so you won’t find a Nigerian man to marry you.

    Your brain. Where is it?

    7. “Don���t get a PhD degree, men don���t like over-smart women”.

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    You don���t say!

    8. Guys with nothing to offer approaching because they think you���ll be desperate enough to accept.

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    God, See my life!

    9. People asking why you broke up with your last boyfriend.

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    I was self sabotaging. Okay?

    10. People asking what you feel if your younger sister gets married before you.

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    More power to her!>

    11. Then they say ���You���re so nice, I wonder why you���re still single���.

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    Err..because I am!

    12. Your parents asking you to stop looking for love and just marry someone.

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    And you���re here thinking ���Am I that sad?���=

    13. You���re always the third, fifth and seventh wheel.

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    Come along, they said. It���ll be fun, they said.

    14. And the designated photographer of your happy couple friends.

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    Stop. Smiling. I can’t else they’d say I’m bitter.

    15. No one understands that you just want to be single right now.

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    I mean, it���s a choice…

    16. Everyone keeps saying, ���You���ll soon find someone���.

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    Yeah, sure.

    17. Or that you have to love yourself before someone can love you.

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    Go on, please!

    18. You���re secretly excited when your friends break up.

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    Oh I���m so sorry you guys broke up..LOL!

    19. Or when their spouses don���t show up for events.

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    “Who needs them anyway? We���ll still have fun without them.”

    20. Catching up with old friends always means awkwardly answering the ���So, are you seeing anyone?��� question.

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    No. But I still have me.

    21. You���re a master at having crushes

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    But a relationship novice.

    22. People tiptoe around you when relationships topics come up.

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    Jeez! I won���t break down in tears.

    23. If there���s an event you want to go to, you have to decide if you want to go badly enough that it���s worth going alone because of all the questions above.

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    But it really isn’t. ���I immediately regret this decision��� – You say to yourself, after you go.

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    24. Especially weddings.

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    No.>

    25. Or Valentine���s day.

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    NO!

    26. You blush every time Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” comes on.

    Too close to home.

    27. Even you start to wonder if you���re going to be forever alone.

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    Cats?

    28. But then you realize that you���re loving the single life.

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    Because let���s face it, relationships aren���t that great.

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