A wife can really be a thorn in the feet of her husband if she is the kind that insists on accompanying the man everywhere he goes.
Example of such women are like the ones who insist on following their husbands to bars and pubs even though they are teetotallers.
So, what business do these women have in pubs if they do not drink?
Well, two Thika men whose wives accompany them to the bar every Weekend say that such women have different motives that make them just go to the bar to watch other people make merry and get drunk as they maintain the sobriety of a judge.
Here are some of the reasons as enumerated by Jack Mulwa and Antony Mwangi.
1. To ‘guard’ their men from marauding street girls.
"My wife has a fallacy that whenever a man is out drinking, he must have a gang of prostitutes with him. So, to ensure that this does not happen, she will always insist on accompanying me to the bar which bores me to the core," says Mulwa.
2. To monitor the man’s spending. Mulwa adds that his wife of two-years also accompany him to the bar to ensure he does not ‘misuse’ his money buying drinks to every Tom, Dick and Harry he spots in the bar.
"Sometimes she become so agitated when I order a drink even for a close friend. One time she confiscated my wallet and ATM cards and demanded that we go home.
"I was so angry that I became sober instantly. But I had no option but to comply because I did not want to cause drama at the pub," he adds.
3. ‘Kiherehere’. Another group of these women accompany their husbands to drinking joints for no apparent reason, according to Mwangi.
He says that he once asked his wife why she always insist on accompanying him to the pub, but only managed to give him vague answers.
4. Show-off. Other women just want to go with their men to the bars to show the world how 'caring and loving' they are.
"When I become drunk, she even volunteer to take me to the gents or wherever it is that I want to go. She tells me that that is what a caring and loving wife ought to do but I don't like it because I do not experience the same while in the house," Mwangi says.