Daniel Etim-Effiong, the popular Nollywood actor, has opened up on vital lessons he learned after exploring womanising at some point in his life.
The film star during a recent interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo described the experience of having romantic affairs with different women as a learning process.
The thespian said that he often advised young people to shun womanising because it can affect their relationships and marriages in the future, stressing that it might prove challenging to quit.
Chude asked: “Were you a womanizer before you got married?”
Etim-Effiong replied: “It depends on what is your definition of a womanizer.”
Chude inferred: “A man who dates multiple women at the same time.”
Etim-Effiong: “Maybe there was a time in my life I was. Definitions would differ, but in that definition, maybe there was a period in my life that I was, I wouldn’t say for long periods of my life. Maybe for some certain periods that I explored. So, perhaps.”
Chude asked: “Was it good periods?”
Etim-Effiong replied: “Yes, they were periods of learning for me. If I learned, then they were good periods.”
Chude asked: “What did you learn?”
Etim-Effiong replied: “I learned that certain things don’t necessarily bring you the fulfilment that you think they would. On paper, it feels like that is the life, but in experientially maybe not.
“I tell young people a lot that it is cool to be a player but if you develop that habit or lifestyle, you won’t automatically change overnight.
“So, don’t develop something you don’t want to continue for the rest of your life. If you are not able to commit to one person, if you jump from one relationship to another, that won’t automatically change when you marry.