7 Hot Spots Where You Can Meet A Life Partner

1.Church

The church is one of the places where people believe that they can find the best life partners. The major reason is the fact that the level of spirituality of the people in the church is believed to be higher than that of those who are not regulars in the church. From a random research carried out by naij.com correspondent on the subject topic, it was gathered that many people are more comfortable with meeting their spouses in the church. While a few others were of the opinion that worse people reside in the church just to get security of some sort. In fact, they noted that it is even more dangerous to meet and hook up with someone in the church as one may not really know the individual’s true colours until something happens that will expose it.


2. Bar

It is almost a norm these days to see people hook up in bars, or pepper-soup joints, beer parlour or otherwise. From our observation, young guys do not go there alone. They are mostly found in company of a young lady as a companion. Findings have also revealed that many guys go to the bars to see if there could be ‘single’ ladies waiting to be ‘taken to mama’ and vice versa. Fortunately, a few couples have confessed to have met their spouses in bars and have gone ahead to enjoy blissful marriages.

One of our respondents stated categorically that, “I really did not think I could find a wife in a bar because that would have automatically meant that we’ll have a family of drunks.
But, I can assure you that the lady I met back then is a wife now and we have children who are also doing fine. Marrying in a bar may not be good for everybody, but I can assure you that we are enjoying it”.

3. School

This is another really sure place where spouses meet. The fact that the people see each other everyday makes it easier for them to access the prospective spouse’s character from close range. One man- now late- told a story of how he met his wife as an 18-year old Secondary School student. He claimed to have met and informed her of his intention at the time. He would later marry the lady and have three children with her before he met his death. And truly, even the supposed ‘old schools’ have also confirmed that choosing a spouse while in school is a really good idea because it gives room for either of both parties to study and know each other well, especially if they are of the same cohort.

4. Social Gatherings

One of the many reasons social events are being put together is to ensure that people from different backgrounds, needs, and desires, come together to seek a way of finding comfort with one another. In other words, when people have occasions such as Child Christening, Wedding, and even Funeral ceremonies, there are great chances that people with a desire to meet with a future partner will just be hanging somewhere around the corner to give a lift to a person of like mind. This also explains why people invite their friends and acquaintances to such occasions. While some also attend in search of flings, many others genuinely want a life partner and testimonies abound on how people have met their future partners during such occasions. Even Singles’ Forum, Seminar, Symposiums, and the likes, often bring spinsters and bachelors together which they always utilise.

5. Service Year

It is nearly a taboo for a lady who goes into her mandatory one year Youth Service without a future partner to return the same way. In fact, guys have reportedly claimed that many ladies push themselves on men during the one year programme. This has been blamed on some myths being peddled around, that if a woman does not succeed in getting a responsible man during her stay in the tertiary institution and rounds up her service year the same way, she may have lost her opportunity of meeting her prince Charming. While this is not always true, the ladies have always ensured that they do not find themselves in such dilemma. Some go to the extent of deliberately tying the guy they only just met down with pregnancy and insist that they get married.

Indeed, very many people have met their future partners through the service years as Rowland stated, “I am proud to announce that I met my wife during my service year and we got married almost a year after. Many people could not believe when I told them about my relationship but, we got married shortly after and we are doing really great”.

6. Beach

Some of our respondents to the question on where they met their spouses noted that the beach is also a feasible place where people could meet their future partners. Their argument was based on the fact that people go there for different events and are likely to meet and share a few words with others who also came to catch fun. Like bees, they get attracted to each other and soon start visiting the beach in each other’s company and eventually get married. It is not unusual or even out of place for people who meet at the beach to fall in love and get married almost immediately so far it is by mutual consent.

7. Hospital

As funny as this option may seem, findings also revealed that some people have found their spouses in the hospital. One of those who spoke anonymously confided in our correspondent that several medical doctors have besieged certain wards of their hospitals to ‘scout’ for appealing ladies. This informant who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that, “when I was with my mother in the hospital, a doctor was eyeing me seriously to the extent that he hid my mum’s file thinking that it was mine.

“I laughed when he later approached me. Maybe if I was not engaged to be married at the time, I probably would have gotten married to him”.

This all but confirms the worries of a school of thought which believes that all medical doctors are promiscuous, whether married or single but this does not completely erase the fact that many people are living with ‘that doctor that attended to me on my sick bed’.

In a society like ours where much stock is placed on a woman finding the right man to settle down with on time and vice versa, it is no surprise that marriage is in the minds of a lot of young people.

Statistics have it that most Nigerian ladies settle down in their early to mid 20’s and most men get married within their early 30’s. So, it therefore fits that young people troll places, some of which are mentioned above, where it is likely they meet their mate.

Seeing as the rate of divorce is also now increasing in Nigeria, whether or not there is a perfect location to meet a life partner certainly gets called into questions. Whatever the case may be, choosing someone to spend the rest of your life with is no easy feat, regardless of where the both of you met. The true test of your relationship begins after you decide to build a life with the person, and not before.