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Legal Insight 👩⚖️
Under Nigerian law, your wife is not under any legal obligation to bear your surname after marriage. While it is common and culturally expected in many homes, the law does not force a woman to change her name, and she does not need to give any reason for keeping her maiden name.
Her name is her legal identity, the one she has used all her life to build her reputation, career, and personal achievements. Whether it comes from her father or family background does not matter. She has the full right to keep it, add yours, or even combine both, but that decision is entirely hers.
It is important to understand that marriage does not take away her individuality. Your wife is not your property, and the law recognizes her as a separate person with her own rights. So while this may hurt emotionally, legally, you cannot compel her to bear your surname, it has to be her choice.
©Barr Wendy Cynthia Okosa
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Should You Bear Your Husband Name After Marriage?
I’ve been married for 13 years, and there’s one issue that has never left my heart, my wife has refused to take my surname.
I’ve tried everything. Calm conversations, pleading, involving both families, even our pastor. Nothing has changed.
It’s now getting harder because our children are starting to notice. They ask questions, and each time, it reopens something I’ve been trying to manage for years.
At some point, I tried to compromise. I suggested she could simply add my surname to hers, just a simple combination. She still refused.
What hurts the most is her reason. She believes I’m only interested in her surname because of her family’s properties. She says her name already opens doors for her because of her father’s reputation, and that mine adds no value to her life.
Hearing that from your own wife… it cuts deep.
This has gone beyond just a name for me. It feels like rejection, like I’m being dismissed as a man, a husband, and a partner. I feel disrespected, embarrassed, and honestly, powerless.
I don’t want this to break my home, but I also don’t know how long I can keep carrying this pain in silence.
Check comment section for legal insight 🧑⚖️
©Barr Wendy
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