Real Housewives Naija: September 2016

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Domestic Violence Against Housewives

Domestic violence? I don’t see anything domestic about those 2 words, violence is violence and should not be seen as light, no individual loves to be violated. Well it is seen as domestic violence because it is an abuse involved in a relationship or marriage. Some call it family violence or battering or abuse in the home. It involves a man having a specific pattern of behavior geared by uncontrolled anger to abuse his wife or girlfriend or even children. Some forms of abuse include hitting, flogging, in general physical abuse, verbal abuse to partner and family, emotional, economic, religious, locking up or slavery acts, sexual abuse. If you notice i have been writing in one pattern as in man against women, this is because from origin domestic violence has been done against women only in very rare occasion that the reverse is the case.
Hmm, i think this article should be mostly for the men, I’ll address the women towards the end
Some men hit their wives as a means for correction, others only when provoked by the women and many have uncontrolled anger. How do men feel while committing this act of abuse? I mean by the nature women were created from men....out of their ribs and completely obvious men are stronger. So with such meekness a women posses in her a man will comfortable fight and cause damages to her. Same women you sort after to marry, same woman who bore children for you, same woman who sacrifices for you? And after all damages sorry is the last resort. In my opinion men should talk to their wives, i guess they are friends (husband and wife) and if your wife loves you especially when it’s not the first time you mentioned  whatever you talked with her about then she’ll change. Otherwise once you are getting so angered to the point of hitting, please take a stroll or go to bed if it is so late and then give her silent treatment or cut down some of her privileges till she behaves appropriately rather that battering her. Some women out of shock might even die. Do you want to be a widower and a man who killed his wife?
There may be cases where the man says never like infidelity, in my opinion please separate from her rather than killing her. I do not advocate for divorce or separation but infidelity is totally wrong. It is adultery and one of the Ten Commandments, do you not fear God? No good woman will commit such acts
Women go through a lot, you can read so many articles on this and see what pains women go through. They go through daily trauma, are emotionally broken, enter into shock that might take them sometime to re-adjust after the event, depression, feelings of hopelessness, weight/appetite loss, unkempt look, unexpected crying, less i forget-physical bruises like black/red eyes, bruises, crippled in sever case, shortness of breath, hearing/seeing loss, miscarriage/early delivery, knife wounds, fainting and above all start living in fear in a place meant to be home because abuse can cause a great impact in the persons way of thinking and impact how the individual acts.
What about the children who watch or listen while this is going on? There is a bold statement been written in the hearts, something they will hardly forget, you know children have this strong recalling memory and it is not good to damage their memory with bad attitudes and behaviour since we are their first model.
I did not write about coping in domestic violence because it can be avoided.
Now women our mothers will tell us to pray, be patient, be submissive. Most women who are affected will tell you if you have the opportunity to interview or gist with them that they are submissive and patient and pray, so the question is what’s going on? Here’s my opinion again, I think you have to know very well you are married to, how he takes to things and how controllable his anger is, every marriage is different and so is the man’s tolerance. I have always said in any relationship be it buyer-seller, boyfriend-girlfriends, parents-children, husband-wife.... There is only fight when there is an opponent. If you as the wife refuse to be an opponent, then the fight is cancelled. If your husband insults you and family keep mute, if he is gearing for a slap or hitting, do not dare [most women especially first timers in this abuse thing have so much confidence that their husbands won’t hit them and they dare him and finally it occurs, so do not dare him] Anything he wants at that beastly time of his, obey and them retire to sleep. As far as you are totally clean and its merely a misunderstanding issue, silence really pays, he may think you are a fool but in his quiet time he will feel bad even if he doesn’t come to apologize as in some cases and save yourself been physically damaged because at the end of the day its your body and these damages will tell at old age. Be Informed!