{"id":9926,"date":"2017-10-04T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9926"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:28:26","slug":"talk-to-steph-my-aunty-does-not-want-men-around-me-but-she-pressures-me-to-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9926","title":{"rendered":"TALK TO STEPH: My Aunty Does Not Want Men Around Me But She Pressures Me To Get Married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Stephanie,<\/p>\n<p>I am in my final year in Polytechnic, I\u2019m 23 years old. I live with my aunty and she\u2019s strict when it comes to boys talking to me. I don\u2019t hang around many men or even have time for that, but whenever I am on a call or chatting with a boy from church or neighburhood, she begins to warn me to stay away from men.<\/p>\n<p>But what confuses me is that she always badgers me to find a good man and marry. She\u2019ll say, \u201cYou know you are graduating soon, you need to start preparing for marriage\u201d. But how do I prepare for marriage if she won\u2019t let me talk to any man? I\u2019m not doing anything wrong with them but I just think it is weird that she wants me to find a husband but she is always complaining when I talk to men. So how am I going to find a man to marry me if I am only allowed to talk to girls?<\/p>\n<p>Even I would like to get married immediately after NYSC. What can I do about this, please? &#8211; Inioluwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Stephanie, I am in my final year in Polytechnic, I\u2019m 23 years old. I live with my aunty and she\u2019s strict when it comes to boys talking to me. I don\u2019t hang around many men or even have time for that, but whenever I am on a call or chatting with a boy from church or neighburhood, she begins to warn me to stay away from men. But what confuses me is that she always badgers me to find a good man and marry. She\u2019ll say, \u201cYou know you are graduating soon, you need to start preparing for marriage\u201d. But how do I prepare for marriage if she won\u2019t let me talk to any man? I\u2019m not doing anything wrong with them but I just think it is weird that she wants me to find a husband but she is always complaining when I talk to men. So how am I going to find a man to marry me if I am only allowed to talk to girls? Even I would like to get married immediately after NYSC. What can I do about this, please? &#8211; Inioluwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talk-to-steph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}