5 signs you are dating an ‘overgrown boy’

They have stuck to youthful cultural values [Photo: Courtesy]

There is an outcry from women over lack of serious men to get into relationships with or to marry them. There is not enough scientific data to back up such claims, but any keen observer will tell you Kenya’s urban centres, especially Nairobi, are full of men in their late 20s and 30s who have completely refused to grow up. They have good jobs and earn big money, but have absolutely no intentions of getting into serious relationships or getting married as is expected of men their age.  Prospective wives have given up on them. Their parents have desperately pleaded with them to settle down, but in vain.

One can spot them from a distance. They have stuck to youthful cultural values. Most of them, for instance, cannot get enough of toys; they drive sports cars (those tiny toys no self-respecting man would proudly give his mother-in-law a lift in, that is, if she at all accepts to board such a toy). When such men ‘graduate’, they buy Subarus, which they ‘pimp’ with music systems loud enough to compete for attention with a night club.