Genotype Challenge As Told By Elfrida

....Stella, I personally feel my genotype is a plague to me worse than HIV. lol

I feel so because being of the AS genotype makes the probability of settling down really difficult.Why does life have to be so complicated?. I can almost hear someone saying I dont have a problem but as a matter of fact I DO.

I am getting older,my eggs aren’t getting any fresher and I just seem to have limited access to eligible bachelors with a compatible genotype and living outside Nigeria makes my chances even smaller. OMG

 I have never been that girl who envisioned her married life as one born out of settling,I want love, crazy passionate love. Not screensaver love o, the kind of love that makes every day feel like Christmas and I know it exists because I have been there...... BUT MY GENOTYPE CURSE SNATCHED IT FROM ME.

If anyone has researched genotypes and all its inherent problems,I think I am the champion of all researches.

30 years is staring at me in the eye and I can’t seem to find a man with compatible genotype as well as other pertinent qualities and every day I see congratulations on engagements, I wonder how every other person in the world happens to find a genetically compatible partner except me.

And then again I wonder is that why many of the marriages today are based of convenience and not love. Why they crumble after a short while because they were contracts and not that passionate ride or die love?

31^st 2009-1^st 2010 I remember one of my prayer points.It was ''God let my next boyfriend be my last, I want him to have a job, he doesn’t have to be good-looking but he should be presentable, let him love me and love you''.... I totally forgot to add ''and let his genotype be AA''.

I met a guy at that time, and the way we clicked, nobody could tell me nothing, God had answered my prayers and I had found my soul mate but alas,genotype happened.

After a few months of dating, we found out we were both AS, and talked about it. We were like no way we were letting each other go. We would make it work. but after family and friends opposed and four years of trying to get parents approval,dudes liver failed. He said ‘think about the children’ I cant.

Haa,my world crashed.I did my genotype test like one million times. Always came out the same AS and I died each time.

Now automatically every guy I meet, I ask ''what is your genotype?'' and with each response I realize that the ratio of AA to AS is like 1 to every 60.

...so what is going to happen to the rest of us?

Elfrida.