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A good man has simple needs, understand them, and he’ll stay

You get the best out of a good man by praising his virtues.

Photo credit: Samuel Muigai | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • When men date there are only two possibilities on their minds. Sex or marriage.
  • A good man has simple needs. Understand them, and he’ll stick to you like glue.

You’re a successful woman, well-educated, enjoying your life and ready to marry. But for some reason, the men you meet don’t seem to be serious.

Everything always starts well. Your boyfriends are attentive, affectionate, lots of fun, and seem to care about you. But then they quietly fade away.

If that’s only happened once or twice, you’ve just been unlucky, but if all your boyfriends turn out this way, then the chances are it’s something you’re doing wrong.

Do you like keeping men off balance? Good men don’t play games.

You’ve no control over your emotions? Good men find that very scary.

You dress like a stripper? To a man you are what you wear.

Maybe you’re way too needy? When a man’s looking for a wife, he wants to know that you care about his needs too. You don’t? He’ll soon fade out of your life.

You’re forever criticising him? Good men know all their failings and don’t need reminding. You get the best out of a good man by praising his virtues. Endlessly pointing out his vices will quickly turn him away. Same if you’re judgmental. If you’re criticising everything he says, he’ll soon stop wanting to talk to you.

You know the club scene really well, but get bored by conversations about politics, religion or money? Good men want a wife who can manage a home, help with his business and raise the kids.

You’re still seething over an ex from long ago? Stop talking about him. Can’t say anything nice about any man? Good men won’t want to be part of your life. Neither will they if you get violent. Or you’ve been in a vicious divorce battle. Or if you’re all about yourself, ‘don’t need a man,’ or expect to get your way all the time. Or you constantly let him know what your ‘girl friends’ think he should be doing for you.

Maybe you get intimate too easily? When men date there are only two possibilities on their minds. Sex or marriage. One or the other. Men don’t want a wife who’s an easy lay.

Your social media is a cry for male attention? Good men lose interest if you have lots of male ‘friends.’ Just like women distrust men with too many female friends, men feel the same way about all those guys.

Beautiful hair, beautiful nails, but no money? You’re a ‘model, ‘singer’ or ‘beautician?’ Not unless you’re earning steady money you’re not. It all screams gold-digger. You never buy your own drinks? A good man will always pick up the tab, but you need to buy him something from time to time, just so he knows you don’t only see him as a source of income.

A good man has simple needs. Understand them, and he’ll stick to you like glue. But if it’s only your needs that matter, then your life will forever be full of men who fade away.