My experience as a womanizer – Actor, Daniel Etim-Effiong

Popular Nollywood actor Daniel Etim-Effiong has revealed that he was once a womanizer, though only for a brief period in his life.

Speaking in an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, the engineer-turned-actor described his past “exploring” multiple relationships simultaneously as a learning experience.

When asked if he was a womanizer before marriage, Etim-Effiong replied, “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.”

Reflecting on those times, the actor said, “They were periods of learning for me. If I learned, then they were good periods.”

Etim-Effiong warned young people against adopting womanizing habits, noting the challenge of changing such behavior after marriage.

He stressed, “It is cool to be a player but if you develop that habit or lifestyle, you won’t automatically change overnight.”

He further explained,

“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. When you marry, that muscle hasn’t been developed, so you encounter one challenge and you want to immediately jump or say, ‘I’m talking to you, you are not listening to me, let me find somebody that would listen to me.’”

Etim-Effiong urged youths to be mindful of their relationship choices, stressing that “if you are the kind of person that before you got married it was easy for you to just walk away, keep different relationships, keep ladies on the string, that won’t change when you get married.”