Why married men should avoid female besties – Rita Edochie

Seasoned Nigerian actress Rita Edochie has shared her views on the boundaries married men should observe in relationships with exes or female friends.

She believes a married man’s closest female companion should be his wife, asserting that any friendship with an ex should have ended if he chose to marry someone else.

Edochie also addressed single women who identify as “besties” to married men, warning that this dynamic often blurs into “side chick” territory.

Her advice to married men? Leave the past in the past and respect marital boundaries by focusing fully on their wives.

Speaking in pidgin, she wrote on Instagram: “The next thing now una go begin tok second wife matter. As a married man, you are busy keeping female besties. Your ex for that matter, if I talk now una go say Ijele you dey worry. Imagine going back to your vomit, if you love and value your relationship with your ex a lot, why didn’t you end up with her?

“Why drop her? Call her your ex, marry an entirely different woman. Then go back to relate with that same ex while still married to your wife?

“Have you thought about the mental and emotional stress it imposes on the women you lawfully wed? Hmmmmm. Just hmmm”

“Goat and yam no dey stay together simple. This was how that other one came in with the colleague and bestie format, why have a woman as your bestie or personal assistant? Listen as a married man, your only female bestie should be your wife.

“All these single ladies claiming besties to married men, all of una be side chicks to that man, you can’t be with him, locked up alone in one room and not do one or two, nothing person wan tell me biko.

“Stop deceiving yourselves, when she becomes your ex, move on and focus on your wife.

I”magine your ex visiting your matrimonial home to cook for you as a married man. haba na ment? Ndi ala, I am so angry right now”.