"Imagine if I were to walk into a coffee shop and bump into them on a date. I will definitely think they are having an affair," he says, adding that in his crew they believe that a woman can never come between them.

"We always joke and say, just fool around but you know we are the ones who will carry your casket. We have our fights and reconcile but a woman has never come between us. Because women come and go but our relationship is more than friendship, we are brothers."

His sentiments are echoed by Felix Wairimu, an entertainment agent, who says the bond between him and his boys is strong, and even when one is cheating they never tell.

"If we know one of the boys is cheating, we keep it to ourselves. There are things we cannot talk about when the wife or the main chick is around," he says.

However, Felix says that in his crew, they can share women if it's not the main woman.

"First a photo is always shared amongst us, just to make sure nobody knows her. In case one has smashed her, he has to reveal that and the other will decide whether to smash or not," he says.

Felix adds that another code is not smashing a friend's sister.

This code is not only embraced by elderly men but also younger ones. Maxwell Kiptoo, 21, remembers a time a friend's girlfriend tried making pass at him.

"She was having trouble with my boy, so she came to my hostel room complaining. Then she started touching me inappropriately. I was very tempted but I left," he says.

As it is obvious that boys clubs discourage zero grazing, there are some who do not mind sharing.

Magdalena Achieng', a salesperson in Embakasi, Nairobi, says her boyfriend's friend made a pass at her.

"We would hang out together and sometimes he would even come for a sleepover at my boyfriend's house while I was there. We were that close. Then he started making sexual comments, he would see me in shorts and say something like 'nice thighs' or 'nice cleavage'," she says.

Magdalena says at first she ignored the comments until they escalated to WhatsApp texts.

"I would post a photo on WhatsApp status and he would still make sexual comments. I took screenshots and showed my boyfriend. I don't know how the confrontation was but their friendship was bruised and I hardly see him," she says.

Martha Wangari, 57-year-old retired teacher in Nairobi, recalls when her husband's friend invited her to his house to pick up a package from work, but the friend was planning to offer another "package".

Her husband was working out of town, it was normal for him to send packages for her through the work post office, and his friend would always bring them home.

"So it was weird when he told me to go to his house to pick it, he lived alone, his wife and children were upcountry. I went and I found him in a t-shirt and a towel. He claimed he had stained his shorts that is why he was in a towel," she says.

He tried to lure her into the bedroom, but she stormed out.

"I told my husband and he was furious, he confronted him, of course he denied. But my husband believed me because he knows I would never do that to him," says Martha.


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