Many of the problems in this world can be traced to alternative relationship lifestyles. If humans stuck with the two historical main classes of relationship status which are; “married”, or “single”, life would make more sense. One can be productively and profitably married, or, yes, productively and profitably single. Let us get it straight, there is NO commandment or law that states everybody must be married, whether in religion or secular society.

If you feel called to singlehood and can handle it, using it meaningfully to add good to the society through your work, career, calling, or activities as a human being, embrace it proudly. Sex is simply overrated and it is high time people start getting shunned for always emphasizing and assuming, that life is all about who sleeps with who. Choose serious friends and associates who share similar values, not people who are contaminated and can contaminate you with trouble, disease, crime.

As someone on a forum put it, nowadays people “live dirty, and treat life cheaply”. There are enough problems generated in wrong/difficult marital relationships to last lifetimes. But when people begin seeking temporary pleasure in temporary things including flings, indiscriminate dating, multiple partners, wrong or questionable relationship partners without marriage etc, trouble and headaches surely follow.

Many people have been killed in cheap relationship sagas, children birthed and abandoned, diseases diagnosed and battled/succumbed to, etc etc. Is it really worth all the brouhaha? Is it that people are so bored now that they want to change genders, change partners, change lifestyles, change all types of things; then change it back again, then change it to something different, all while their entire lives revolve around the sicknesses, generational curses, family issues, abandoned children,drugs for respite, battles and headaches surrounding all these? No wonder fake pastors and miracles now abound, suicides at an all time high, and drugs an increasing menace. People are living wrong and reaping the miserable consequences.

You don’t need to do something just because everyone else is, if you know it is wrong and non-profitable at the end of the day. Forget the confusion of today’s world, be yourself, choose those you can cope with to mingle with, your faith, your beliefs, your goals, etc, and the rest of the noise you can ignore.

By Dr Mercy Alu

I am a mother, HR consultant, author, Goodwill Ambassador with Globcal (a partner with UN on SDG's in Africa), coordinator with International Association of African Authors/Scholars, a songwriter/recording artist, researcher, and social anthropologist of sorts! I believe we should all live our best lives, and enjoy helping organizations and individuals perform better. I and my guest authors love to share information about the world around us; African events & Entertainment, plus lots of good information about Health, Wellness, Family, Book Publishing, Business, Relationships, Culture, Folk Stories, and much more. I speak several languages including French and Igbo (a West African Language). I enjoy research, writing, reading, singing and finding out lots of things about, well, lots of things! Knowledge is power. So information and knowledge gained from experiences, observation, all flavor the things I write about in the exciting blog portion of this website. Feel free to drop me a line or two, I also want to hear from you!

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