For a relationship to truly work in real life, you have to accept that you and your partner are two different individuals..shaped by different backgrounds, experiences, and ways of seeing the world…coming together to build one future. That alone requires patience, grace, and deep understanding.
You won’t always think alike, feel the same, or see things from the same perspective—and that’s normal. Differences don’t mean something is wrong; if handled well, they become an opportunity for growth.
In reality, you’ll notice a pattern: you meet someone you’re attracted to, but they lack sense. You find someone who has sense, but they can’t communicate. You meet a good communicator, but they struggle with trust. You find someone who trusts you, but they’re nonchalant. Then the one who isn’t nonchalant may not even have a clear future. It starts to feel like something is always missing.
That’s where understanding the 80/20 rule comes in. If your partner is 80% right for you, chasing the missing 20% in someone else will only lead you in circles. Even if it’s 70/30 or 60/40, the principle still stands…there’s no perfect person anywhere. What matters is that the good clearly outweighs the bad.
At the end of the day, it’s not always about who is right or wrong, but how you handle the moments when things don’t align. Do you listen or just react? Do you seek to understand, or are you only trying to be heard? Do you choose communication over ego?
Healthy love isn’t about perfection or agreeing on everything…it’s about respecting each other enough to work through your differences, protect what you have, and keep choosing each other even when it’s not easy. That’s where real love shows up.
Few points I picked from this;
1. Majority of relationships only stand because the man is financially doing better than the woman, or because the woman is extremely poor. It’s a means for survival. The moment she gets her own money, her interest for you reduces. It gets worse if she gets richer than you because she wouldn’t be able to do what you did for her when you were making more than she was.
2. A rich man is kinder than a rich woman.
3. Never borrow money from a woman, you’ll regret it. Especially your ex, biggest mistake. Your ex is definitely praying everyday that you fail to justify her action of leaving you, or to feel better about not being with you anymore. You’ll only be making a huge mistake to go validate her prayers about you by asking her for financial help.
4. Be ruthless with your decisions when you finally get your bag up; a broke woman is ruthless, rich women are more ruthless, you’re who is a man with money should be ruthless too. They wouldn’t consider you if the case was reversed.
Build a business in your 20's, make it a brand in your 30's, 40's go ahead and cement it as a legacy with massive revenues. Manage the wealth in your 50's & 60's.
Don't rush the process!!!
You don’t want to be rich so you can buy g wagons & flex jet photos.
You want to be rich so you can sit on your porch with a coffee for slow mornings.
So you can go to the gym middle of the day.
Take long walks and call them meetings.
Never miss a single family moment. That is being rich, and it has nothing to do with buying things to impress strangers.
I've realised that some of you perceive your entire lives as some kind of fucked up vicarious experience, like a video game - not your actual lived experience.
That's why after living through 10 of the very worst years in Nigeria's entire post-independence history, you still think of 2015 as something "Jonathan" went through, and not the beginning of your complete immiseration.
And that's why you're looking forward to a foreign military destroying your country - because in your mind, that will be a well-deserved fuck you to "Tinubu." You don't realise that you have infinitely more to lose from the destruction of your country than either of "Jonathan" or "Tinubu."
You people really think this is Barcelona vs Real Madrid. I just- 😖