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From sky-high bride prices to delayed weddings and the quiet rise of cohabitation, Nigeria's harsh economic climate is forcing young couples to rethink everything they were taught about marriage. Here's what's really happening. For generations, Nigerians have grown up knowing the roadmap: finish school, get a job, pay the bride price, do the traditional, then the white wedding, then start a family. Today, that roadmap is increasingly unaffordable and young Nigerians are quietly drawing a new one. There is a quiet revolution happening in Nigerian homes, and it does not announce itself with protests or policy papers. It shows up in the WhatsApp chats of frustrated young men trying to raise bride price. In the conversations between couples who have chosen to "manage" together without a ceremony. In the growing number of educated women who are asking, out loud, whether traditional marriage expectations still make sense in an economy that has all but collapsed on ...