26/05/2026
I am a professional Chef, I worked with a big hotel in Lagos until I lost my job, my wife works but doesn’t earn much, I am the primary provider, and this has caused a strain in our marriage because I wasn’t getting a new gig fast enough, I only got small event jobs but it wasn’t paying the bills, at some point I gave up and stopped trying, see I was depressed and my wife didn’t make it easy, after a while she kept nagging me to stop lazing around the house and just eating food insisting that I go get any job. I spoke to friend of mine, a friend I know she hates because she keeps saying he is a womanizer, he introduced me to his boss to be her full-time residential Chef, i am to cook her daily meals and if she has a party in her house, I am required to stay over to see things through (I explained to her that I am newly married and I can’t live in but I will come first thing in the morning and leave after her dinner). The offer was N 750,000 per month, I felt it was a good offer for a start and I could use this to market myself to higher prospective clients. When I told my wife about it she adamantly refused that don’t i know i am a married man, why will I be cooking for a woman except i have ulterior motives, I won’t lie that offended me, we both know how much I need a job, i said somethings i should not have said to her and she said if I take the job i should forget about the marriage, at this point I almost don’t care, she is being unreasonable. I don’t know how I will tell my friend that I am turning down the job after he stuck his neck out for me, how do i convince my wife?