In annang/Ibibio fishing folklore: there is a fish who when a fisherman throws in a hook baited with fishing-worm, hovers around the bait, it doesn't take the bait and it doesn't allow any other fish to take the bait. It fights off every fish that tries to circumvent it to take the bait.
The reason for this according to fishermen, is because the #mpikuriku does not like worm and because of that, it doesn't want any other fish to eat worm!!

Surprisingly humans exhibit this behavior in different degrees.
There are people who act as mpikurikus in other people's lives.
Today i want to talk about being a mpikuriku in relationships.

1. You clearly don't want him/her in your life,  but you just want them to be attached to you. You love to have a certain power over their emotional lives even though you are not interested in them. You enjoy the attention they give you. You even secretly enjoy their company but maybe your ego, your status, your family or other reasons doesn't allow you to love them in return...
Yet you get jealous when they try to love someone else. You get embittered when they withdraw their unappreciated attention. My brother/sister, you are a mpikuriku

2. You are in a serious relationship but are separated by distance.
You find a side chick/nigga to while away time with. Deep in your heart you know she/he is just a fling. And yet you monitor them to the tune of disallowing them to have a real relationship of their own.
You stamp out every prospective real partner in their lives with  jealousy.
Dear,  you're a serious mpikuriku, repent.

Or maybe you are not ready for serious commitments with the person you are going out with. You're just friends with benefits. Then someone comes along to seriously commit them and you're jealous and stand out to ruin their chance. dear, you're a mpikuriku.

4. You are in a relationship in which you don't allow your partner to touch you.
You condense his every sexual advances with coldness and frigidity and yet seethe with jealousy over the girl who flirts with him. That's being a mpikuriku!

If you dont want a person, set them free.
If a person's love and attention means nothing to you,  dont be jealous when they give it to someone else.
If deep in your heart, you know the person you're going out with doesn't belong in your future, dont hinder them from finding theirs!