We're only a month away from December, the month of family gatherings.
While it’s a great time to bond with our cousins, aunties, uncles, nieces and nephews whom you rarely see, family gatherings will also mean endless comments about your personal life from your ever curious relatives.
That said, here are some of the most annoying and uncomfortable comments and questions you're most likely to encounter during the forthcoming family gathering, so brace yourself!
1. “Wow, you look ‘healthy’ nowadays”
This is a polite way of telling you, you’ve added weight.
Kenyan aunties, especially the older ones tend to have an obsession with your weight.
If they don’t say it straight up that you are fat, they’ll play nice and substitute it with a ‘nicer’ word like ‘healthy’.
It doesn’t matter if you have a healthy BMI or you’re comfortable not being slim, they’ll still go ahead and comment on how you’ve put on weight compared to when they saw you last.
2. “Heard you are single”
Most aunties have now devised this smart way of finding out if you’re single or not.
For most ladies who are in their 20s and 30s, it’s perfectly normal to be a career minded woman whose priority is not settling down. But No! Not for your aunties.
If you appear at a family reunion, at that age, without a significant other, it just means one thing for them, you’re a sad spinster, and you need to be a prayer item in their next prayer meeting.
3. “Harusi ni lini (When is your wedding)?”
If you’re seeing someone, your relationship is not a personal matter anymore, it becomes a family affair until you have a ring on your finger.
At family gatherings, the wedding topic must pop up because the only goal your relatives have in mind is a wedding.
4. “When is the grandchild coming?”
No, getting married is not enough. Your aunties and uncles must see you pregnant.
To them, having babies after you’re officially husband and wife should be your number one priority. If it isn’t, they’ll talk their throats dry for the rest of the night until they get some sort of promise from you that you’ll be providing them with a toddler for the family.