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Get a Vasectomy!

Am at my local movie shop getting something to watch then this guy,a friend of my movie guy comes and starts talking. At first he is complaining how his landlord cannot wait till 10th for rent.He owns a business right across the movie shop and can see the landlady near his shop and he seems to know what she is there for.

At this point am just going through the movie list as I wait for my flash disk to be updated. Then the conversation takes a turn. The guy tells my movie guy, "Kevo usiwai oa! Ningejua singeoa aki. Ona kama sasa nimeanza kupata ‘kihara’ na vile mimi ni mchanga". (Kevo, never marry! If i knew i would not have married. I have started getting bald now yet am a young man).

I try hard not to burst into laughter but my movie guy is up in stitches and he makes me laugh out loud as well. Kevo asks him, "Kwani ni nini boss?" (What's up man?).

The guy goes on to say, the wife told him a few days ago that she is pregnant. At this point I have the movie list paper over my face trying hard to catch some breathe. I ask him,"Kwani what is wrong with that?" and he says,"Zii! Mimi sikuwa nataka." (No! I did not want.)

I ask him,"But you living with a woman in your house and having sex every other time, what do you expect?” He says, "Noo, she should jipanga. I had planned to get my second child after seven years, its been six now.”"

He complains so much about it and I ask him, wewe, what measures did you take to prevent the pregnancy? His response vexed me even though I was still laughing. He said,"Hii ni mambo ya wanawake."  (These are things for women to do.)  According to him, women should prevent the pregnancy.

Kevo the movie guy interjects and says, "Hiyo sasa ndo shida." (Now that there is the problem.)

I look at the guy and tell him, "If you not want kids, get a vasectomy then."

He went on to say he did not even love the lady,that she ‘trapped’ him with the pregnancy and in my head am like, “boy, had you not been sleeping around with her, you would not be here in the first place, so suck it up like the lion you claim to be in bed.”

This got me thinking of the many guys I have heard say they are with the women they are with because of the children. They use this as an excuse to hit on other women. It is what they tell you when you ask them if they are married.

Dear men, this narrative is getting a little too old, get a new one or better still, man up and love the woman you housed and have kids with, if not, leave! Let us not use children as an excuse as to why we are in unhappy relationships; decide to love each other. It will be sad to raise children in such houses.

Bottom line, we are in the 21st century, days when family planning was solely left out for the woman are long behind us. You being the man of the house, lead from the front. You want two kids, agree with you partner and chose an appropriate FP method, there is no harm in the man taking up that role as well. If you done with kids, get a vasectomy or something, Just stop complaining when your wife gets pregnant.

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