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Why married city women prefer more 'compe'

Reason to worry? [Photo: Courtesy]

Women would rather their husbands had a string of lovers than one steady mistress because they fear they might lose him completely to her, The Nairobian has established. “It would be more painful to find out that my husband was cheating on me with one woman. That simply means that he has lost interest in me,” Grace Katheu* a journalist told The Nairobian.

Liza Njambi, a waitress, told The Nairobian that she would not worry as long as her husband was not stuck to one mpango wa kando. “If he has many women but still comes home to me, then he knows what I have to offer,” she says. Other women simply don’t care anymore.

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