OF GYMS AND MARRIED WOMEN

How does anyone pay about GHC 1,500 a year for membership of a gym? I mean gyms are attractive: bright lights, loud hip hop music, enthusiastic sweat-glistened patrons clad in attractive sportswear (you should see the young ladies, damn I wish I was young again). But GHC 1,500? C'mon maen.

I'm not the only one who has found gyms attractive. Loads of people do, and they are trooping to gyms to shape up, among these are married women who feel the need to get their shapes back after childbirth or a close shave with a shapey sidechick. To most of these women getting a figure 8 makes them sexy enough to keep their husbands.

All this is good, but dark stories are emanating from the bright gymnasiums (that's the full term for "gym", but you know that right?). Stories of steamy sex involving the married women and male gym patrons after the vigorous exercises. No, I'm not talking about rape, but consensual sex between the married women and male gym patrons (mostly their trainers). Dark stories. And apparently married men are worried (Ironic, isn’t it? These same married men are snatching the single ladies from their boyfriends).

Recent discussions on social media platforms alluded to 3 reasons for the allegedly rampant frolicking: predatory male patrons (allegedly, they touch the married women suggestively as part of exercising and also seduce the women with their fit frames), socialization/bonding at the gyms, and intentional targeting. To curb this, a recent study concluded that couples should visit gyms together, or when a spouse visits alone then they should avoid bonding with the other patrons. 

See, we need to focus properly. The gyms are not the problem. THE PROBLEMS LIE IN OUR MARRIAGES. And the solutions lie in our reach too.

1. The morbid desire to get into some shape because we feel our spouses may be attracted by other shapes. Pregnancy and childbirth changes our partners’ shapes, age does same. Married folks need to bear in mind that our partners will not be figure 8 forever or have abs like young men forever. Whatever their shape, let's appreciate them. Our lack of appreciation for our spouses drives them into the hands of predators EVERYWHERE, not only in the gyms.

2. Bad or non-existent communication pushes our spouses to socialize with others outside the home, or in this case, the gyms when they go to shape up. Let's communicate and let us bond with our partners: Play games together, watch movies together, cook together (the men can pretend to be helping in the cooking, but all the while doing nothing except being present and chewing fish or meat 😂😂) and wash together when possible (except when you use a washing machine). Doing these things together will help us bond properly and save us from predators who are EVERYWHERE.

Lastly, where we want our partners to exercise let's be savvy about it. There are mobile apps that show exercises we could do at home. Let's download these apps, commit to a time at home, and do the exercises. We do not necessarily need a gym to do push-ups, skipping or sit-ups.

These things will help us a lot. Like I've stated earlier, the problem isn't the gym, but deeper problems that lie in our marriages. And we have the remedy. Let’s apply it!