When we were young and stupid, we would often see a dog walk down a village pathway then suddenly stop, lift one leg and pee on some bush, pole or blade of grass.
What we never knew and were not told was the dog was simply marking its territory. He would use the pee scent to keep other nosy dogs from invading his territory and meddling in his ‘affairs’. The scent told other dogs foolish enough to try mating his bitches one thing: FFU - Fanya Fujo Uone.
But something else we did not know is that women do the same thing too. Of course, they don’t lift one leg doggie style to irrigate bushes, but they have their own way of marking their territories to keep off other females from sniffing around their men.
And here is the funny thing. The men for whom they mark territory never bother to return the favour. Actually, a man wouldn’t want to be seen as being committed or hitched elsewhere, because they would still want to sample other delicacies and do a lot of outside catering.
Not women. The daughters of Eve want to make it known to other women that Zakayo is their man. From leaving hairbands, pins, toothbrushes and young clothes in the man’s bathroom, to buying female magazines which they don’t even read, but ensure to dump them on the man’s bedside table! Or in the car. This is the female human version of marking territory.
Waste of time if you ask me. A man who wants to cheat will cheat even if he’s married to Beyonce. He will bang someone he wants when he gets the opportunity. No, he’ll create the opportunity. Even if you left a whole carton of bras and stilettos at the back of his car, if he wants to nail another woman, he will.
Marking one’s territory sometimes works, but most times doesn’t. Women have made it even easier by knowingly entangling themselves with men who are committed elsewhere. In fact, the present day’s question by a woman to a man is not ‘hey..are you married?’ But ‘can your person fight?’. Women have made themselves comfortable in other women’s relationships and marriages, and nothing will shake them.
These are humans who still pull doors clearly marked ‘push’ and entered cloakrooms with a gent’s sign on the door! She’ll be there calling your husband ‘brother’ on the socials, aawwing and commenting ‘God bless your union’ on your family’s photo, while sleeping on his chest in her bed bedsitter stroking his beard! Don’t joke!
So why would you break your back and fingernails scattering your stuff all over the house in the name of territory marking, only for an Agnes to come, shove them to the side and do her thing? She’ll even use your toothbrush to apply gel on her hairline and your face towel to wipe her feet before she wears your socks and sleep on the bed you think is yours. Yani this whole marking territory thing is just stupid. Because if you have to do all that to keep your man at bay, then he isn’t really your man.
It is even worse when one has a woman who marks her territories in public. Like monitoring his Facebook page, checking which woman has said what and his response or reaction. She will react to every woman’s comment on his photos, react to all his status updates even if he just updated a full stop, she’ll be like; ‘ooh that’s so sweet of you my love’. Some will comment intimately on the updates and photos, and you’d wonder why couldn’t she just send him a private message instead.
Listen darling, fisi ni fisi tu even if you tattoo your name on his mjulus. If it has come to you having to warn the female population to keep off your man, or keeping tabs on where and what he does, to prove to the world that he’s yours, then you have a lot of marking to do til Kingdom come. He will do what he got to do whenever he wants to, with or without your territory nonsense. What if you and seven other women are peeing to mark territory on the same damn guy? Does it even make sense?
Marking territory. It will drain your emotions while Mr swings his pendulum whenever, wherever. You’ll leave your briefs in his bathroom and closet, and if you’re not married, he’ll marry another woman who will burn your stuff and life will move on swiftly like you never even existed.
Well, if you wanna mark, then by all means do. But pissing all over his space won’t keep him.
