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Pleasing and satisfying a woman is a thankless job

One of the lessons men should impart to their sons by the age of 10 is that pleasing and satisfying a woman is a thankless job. It is like trying to water the desert with a teaspoon or painting the sky blue.

I must admit from the word go that there are fine and contented women out here. Bless them. However, many women in Nairobi are inadvertently piling excessive pressure on men by pushing them to live beyond their means. You probably know a young man who is constantly borrowing money to take his woman out. Some fools actually borrow money to take women on vacations. And we know many adult males of sane mental status living between loans to sustain a middle-class lifestyle that has neither life nor style. It is tough being a man, I tell you. Ideally, our sole business of existence is to please women (at least for us straight chaps).

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