By James Onen (aka Fatboy)
We should stop calling them (maids) house girls, and instead call them what they actually are – today’s home managers.
Most wives of today have decided they only want to be our housemates (i.e. people we merely share living space with, except the guy pays almost all the major bills). Need juice when you get home? Need dinner on time? Need someone to serve your guests when they come to visit? Need a cup of tea? Need someone to watch over your kids while you’re away? Need the house cleaned up? And do you want all of this with MINIMUM stress? Wives do none of these things in 2013. All of it is done by the maid.
In most homes, the wife can go on holiday for a month and the home will run smoothly. But when the maid is sick for just 2 days the home is paralysed. It makes you wonder who is more important in the home!
That’s middle-class Uganda for you.
I’m not saying a wife MUST do these things. But if she won’t do it, then what was the point of marrying that woman in the first place? For nagging, stress and once in a while stale sex? (And yes no matter how hot and crazy it was in the beginning, eventually the sex DOES become stale – but more importantly, it becomes INFREQUENT).
People say marriage is just for companionship nowadays. But that’s bullsh-t, because most married couples do not even talk to each other much. LOL. But you know this. So now you have two people in the same house who don’t talk to each other and meanwhile the maid is the one keeping the home running.
So again, what was the point of marrying that woman in the first place?
Maybe for kids. But then marriage is not necessary for having kids anyway, so that point seems moot. Regular sex? LOL. We’ve already addressed that. Besides, most married guys get their sex from campus/office side-dishes anyway.
Housegirls are rendering marriages redundant. And all they cost is a few measly tens of thousands of shillings per month in most cases. It therefore strikes many guys as being more convenient to simply hire a maid to manage the home and just have girlfriends to satisfy their sexual/companionship needs as and when those needs arise, rather than marry and suffer. The rest of the time they are free to do what they want such as go drinking, read books, watch movies, play video games, or simply enjoy some peace and quiet in their home after a hard day’s work.
If I was a wife, at a minimum I’d make sure my home had NO MAID so that I can retain some semblance of relevance to my husband.
“[katogoaward]”
