It has been an age-long battle between the two sexes, who is cleverer between the man and the woman, especially when it comes to relationships and marriage? From time immemorial, the man has always believed he is by far clever than the woman. He is the head of the family. He clothes her, feeds her and provides for her needs. By extension, he decides what she eats, what she wears, how she wears it and where she wears it to. Most times, he takes decisions that are binding on most of them and he does not even consult with her or carry her along. As far as the man is concerned, what does the woman know? She does not, he believes, have the mental capacity to make any meaningful contributions to the issue at hand. And this explains why, oftentimes, the man goes philandering and he is certain his wife does not know. And that she can only suspect him bug she has no proof. So, he becomes even more reckless, thinking the woman will never know because he is smarter and knows how to cover his tracks. And this is where the men get it all wrong. Women are far cleverer than men anytime, any day.
Some men who are advanced in age also share the belief that it is foolhardy for any man to think men are cleverer than women. They have seen a lot happen to men. They have witnessed a lot happen in marriages. Even in their own marriages, they have been through a lot and have had to survive lots of intrigues from their own wives. They know they nearly got their fingers burnt thinking they are clever than their women. But they now know better.
“Women are the cleverest human beings I know,” one of such grand old men with lots of experiences in life confided in City People. “The thing about women is that when men are trying to show that they are in charge and display their dominance over their partners, the women just sit back, quietly, and watch you go on your ego tripping. They pretend as though they have no idea what you’re trying to do and act as though they’re helpless, but it’s a lie. They know exactly what they are doing,” he said. “The only reason men think they clever than women is that the women allow us to think we are. You know women are the greatest pretenders. They are adept at deceit. They lead you on, give you a false impression of themselves and show you their true colours when you least expect it.”
He continued: “I know a philandering husband who thought he was being very smart with his philandering lifestyle. He had chains of girlfriends in and out of town. He had even dated women who lived in the same neighbourhood with him and his wife. He covered his tracks very well or so he thought. What he didn’t know was that the wife had somehow got to know about a few of his escapades. One of the women had even bore him a child. But she didn’t say a word. An opportunity came for the woman to invest in a business that was guaranteed to fetch her a couple of millions as profit. She needed capital but had nothing near what she wanted in her bank account. She decided to use her joker. She chose a very cool Saturday morning and went inside the man’s bedroom to meet him. She told him about the business and the amount of money she needed. Of course, stingy him said he had no money. Now, the woman knew if there was one thing her husband was wary of, it was scandals or anything that could bring his reputation to disrepute. So, the man decided to play her joker. She told him quietly that she knew about his escapades and about the child he had outside and the woman who bore him the child. She mentioned the name of the child and where the mother and child lived. The man was shell shocked. His entire frame was trembling when his wife revealed to him his long kept secret. So, she said to him, I know you have this money but you just don’t want to give me. If you do not give me what I’m asking for, once I leave this room, the first set of people I will reveal your secret to are your children. Then I go on to inform the pastor and members of your family. Of course the woman knew how much the man cherished his children, he didn’t want them to feel disappointed in him. And he couldn’t stand the thought of other members of their church gossiping about him. Without a word, he brought out his cheque book, wrote a cheque in his wife’s name and handed it over to her. “Please, don’t let my children or anybody know about this, please,” he begged his wife. Of course, that wasn’t the last time she got money from him, using his hidden secret to blackmail him.
There was also the story of a man that was widely reported in the media. He had been married to his wife for many years. They had four children together. Unknown to this lady, the husband had been sleeping with their young, beautiful maid. The day the lady found out that the maid was pregnant for her husband, she told him point-blank that she was going to walk out of the marriage. Not only that, she would take the children along with her. When the man had pleaded endlessly to the lady to forgive him and reconsider her decision and the wife was not ready to budge, he told her she could leave if she insists but she should leave his children behind. That was when he received the greatest shocker of his life. The wife asked him how sure was he that the kids were his? It turned out three of the kids belonged to a man the wife had introduced to him long before they got married as her uncle. He was the father of the three children. DNA also later confirmed this. This was a man he and his wife had both gone to visit in his office and at home a few times before. He had become a widower few years before their separation, so his wife moved into the man’s home, with all the four children. And to think that, all the while, the man thought he was the smarter one, playing his wife for a fool by sleeping with her housemaid right under her nose. Little did he know that he was the biggest of fools.
There have also been cases of men who lost their properties and life savings to women they thought they were exploiting. The woman plays the fool and waits patiently for the right moment to strike. And once she strikes, she never misses. She would leave the man too shattered and devastated to strike back. The truth is that, no matter how smart a man may think he is, the woman is smarter. She may pretend to be foolish and unwise, but most times, they are the wisest of all. Even in the bible, the most powerful men that ever lived were brought down by women. For the wise, the word now is that, if you underestimate the power of a woman, then you do so at your own peril. Do not ever think you are clever or smarter than the woman, because the truth is, you are not!
