She is beautiful, laughs at your silly jokes, and you are thinking you have found the one. You begin contemplating embarking on a serious relationship with her. But then if she has the following characteristics please don’t.
1. She judges strangers a lot
The two of you are walking down a street, talking animatedly about what you don’t realise is nothing. It is just the company that is sort of exhilarating. Then, out of the blues, she begins ranting about how on earth someone can wear such clothes or shoes. She does not personally know this person but has the audacity to judge them. It speaks more about her insecurity rather than the other person.
2. Her opinions are facts and final
You may be blind to this in the beginning because you are too engrossed in pleasing her. Her words then are subtle, and you may sometimes laugh, thinking it's the sort of thing that will just blow away. But it does not. If she says ugali sucks, and it is meant for certain domesticated animals, then it sure is. No discussions about it. Run for your life for you are guaranteed to have trouble.
3. No hobbies or a job
At this day and age, where women empowerment has reached somewhere close to where it should be, a woman should have a job or at least a hobby. Wise men had not consumed an unusually high amount of third generation liquor when they said that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. An idle woman will be texting you approximately every three seconds, which she follows up with a phone call to inquire why you are not responding. You are building the nation, darn it. And she should be too.
4. Compares you to others
God made you the way you are, as the cliché says, perfect imperfections. The imperfections must not cross the threshold or normality though. A lady who is into you will never compare you to others, and the moment she does, know that you are way below what she expects. Things like ‘babe si ununue suti kama ya....’ are some of those things. Subtly, she saying she wants a man in a suit. And not just any other.
5. She approaches you
It is a universal truth that men relish the challenge of pursuing a woman. The harder she seems to be the greater pleaser in the reward. A man will relish telling her, on the wedding day, ‘ulikua unaringia nani? So when she approaches you, even if she is the only woman in the world, it just isn’t right. Something somewhere is amiss. Just something not adding up. Not all, though. She will be calling the shots in the relationship, quite literally.