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Feb 15, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh the day after Valentine’s is the real test of love — not the candlelight dinner, not the roses, not the teddy bear bigger than the mortgage. Is when yuh wake up, check yuh wallet, and de wallet staring back at you.
Yesterday was steak, lobster and imported chocolate. This morning is bush tea and regret.
Plenty man went all out. New dress, matching shoes, fancy restaurant where the menu don’t even show prices — because if yuh have to ask, yuh can’t afford it. Dem boys know one fella who see the bill and nearly propose again, hoping it would come with a discount.
Now it February 15th. Wallet light. Credit card smoking harder than the grill from last night. And Mashramani and Easter peeping around the corner like two hungry cousins.
One brother tell dem boys he swipe so much yesterday that the bank send he a sympathy email this morning: “Are you safe?” He say he safe, but he savings ain’t.
Another man buy perfume, handbag, dinner and a weekend staycation. Today he calculating if love could be paid in installments. He even ask he partner casual-like, “Babe, yuh believe in joint accounts?”
Dem boys seh some of dem fellas walking around town today looking like dem just come from a funeral. And in a way, is true. It is the burial of disposable income.
The restaurants smiling. The florists smiling. The chocolate vendors rubbing dem hands together. Only the men checking couch cushions for loose change so dem could still lime on Republic Day.
But leh we be fair. Love sweet. Just that sometimes it sweet with overdraft protection.
So, if yuh see a man eating cook-up rice plain today, mind yuh business. Yesterday he was Romeo. Today he budgeting.
Dem boys seh next year some of dem planning something different: candlelight dinner at home, YouTube saxophone music, and box juice in wine glass.
Because true love strong — but rent stronger.
Talk half. Leff half.
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