some women had to restart their entire lives after loving the wrong man. Financially. Mentally. Emotionally. If you’re rebuilding from zero right now, be proud of yourself. What you survived would have broken most people.
After university, you’ll realize that 95% of the people you called your friends were only your friends because of proximity. You lived together, saw each other every day, attended the same classes, and naturally became close.
After school, you’ll quickly realize you have absolutely nothing in common with most of them, and you’ll never speak again. Not because of any disagreement or malice, but because once the proximity is gone, so is the compatibility.
A lot of friendships were never built on genuine connection. They were just convenient.
There is a kind of hurt that
reveals a person's true character.
When someone sees you carrying
grief, fighting silent battles,
struggling to stay strong, or trying
to survive the hardest chapter of
your life and they still choose to
add to your pain, that is not a
misunderstanding. That is a choice.
Compassion is easiest when life is
good. Character is revealed when
someone has the power to be gentle
and decides not to be. If a person
can watch you suffer and respond
with cruelty, distance, or indifference,
believe what they are showing you.
Protect your peace and keep
your heart guarded.
A look into divorcee influencer & well known Sandton based businesswoman Ayanda Vesi & her boyfriend Thembinkosi Lorch’s first international vacation. Ayanda Vesi divorced & relocated back to SA from America after her husband Jack was struggling to financially take care of her.
The Polygamist is dumb, but not in the way you think.
Part of the plotline’s climax is that Jonasi Gomora’s first wife hires a HIV+ woman that she met a few years earlier to infect her serial cheater husband by sleeping with him.
Jonasi subsequently dies because he doesn’t take his HIV meds. The story here is that the woman tasked with passing on the infection still appears healthy between the time she’s infected and when she infects him, which presupposes that she’s on ARVs, yet she’s simultaneously highly infectious enough to infect someone after one encounter.
This storyline is completely detached from scientific reality, perpetuating outdated HIV stigmas and ignores how transmission and treatment actually work.
The reality is that the fundamental principle of HIV is Undetectable = Untransmittable. So if the HIV lady is healthy because she is consistently taking her ARVs, as her health status implies, then her viral load would be undetectable.
In the real world, U=U has proven that a person with an undetectable viral load has ZERO risk of transmitting the virus sexually. By making her healthy yet somehow highly infectious, the show ignores the primary mechanism of how HIV treatment works.
Then there’s just the inefficiency of sexual transmission of HIV.
The chances of a female infecting a male in penile-vaginal intercourse is just 4 out of 10 000 exposures, or a 0.04% chance per act, and that’s assuming the female partner is untreated and has a detectable viral load, which, going by how the show’s plotline treats Jonasi’s progression with the infection, she herself should have been sick and dying by the time she’s approached.
The idea that Jonasi subsequently dies simply because he didn’t take HIV meds implies a rapid progression to AIDS and death, as his twins are barely 3 or 4 years old when he dies, when they must have 2 or so when he got infected. No strain of HIV is this potent.
In the end, the writers sacrificed medical accuracy for dramatic flair, falling back on an old, misogynist trope of the “infectious femme fatale” while completely ignoring the realities of ARVs and transmission statistics.
If the writers wanted to keep the plot point of a highly effective assassination via HIV, shifting to a parenteral route like an infected blood transfusion or an injection would have made the scheme a lot more plausible.
A blood transfusion has an estimated per-act probability of 9250 out of 10 000 exposures.
That is a staggering 92.5% transmission rate from a single event. Compared to the microscopic 0.04% chance of insertive penile-vaginal intercourse.
A contaminated transfusion or heavy blood injection turns the plot from statistically impossible into a near-certainty.
Also, since the show already established that the wife has a corrupt doctor on her payroll, a medical frame-up is a perfect fit. Jonasi gets into a minor accident, or is drugged and admitted to the hospital, the doctor claims he needs a blood transfusion and deliberately uses a contaminated batch🤷🏾♂️
The entire thing is a missed opportunity for the writers, who chose to substitute lazy, stigmatising writing for what could have been a tightly plotted thrilling climax.
I saw this recently.
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1. Men know exactly what they are doing. Always remember that.
2. It is not your responsibility to change a man. In fact, you cannot change a man, but you can change the man. Read that again.
3. Men will treat you based on how they feel about you and how you carry yourself. If he’s not treating you with care, he doesn’t like you. Don’t make excuses for him.
4. No man can go a day without talking to a woman he is in love with.
5. An inconsistent man doesn’t like you. Only showing up when it is convenient for him is a red flag 🚩
6. There is no such thing as a nonchalant man. That man doesn’t like you. He’s “chalanting” elsewhere.
7. If a man cheats on you and you find out, and instead of leaving the relationship you choose to stay, he will start seeing you as a foól.
8. Your self-respect must be greater than your feelings and libido. Do not ever beg a man to love you. Begging is disgusting.
9. Men are very thoughtful when they are in love. They make time, plan things, and put effort where their heart is. A low-effort man doesn’t like you.
10. The highest form of love is consideration. Any man who doesn’t consider you, how his actions make you feel, or how to make your life easier within his capacity doesn’t like you. Walk away.
11. Lastly, you accept the love you think you deserve. However a man treats you, if you stay, you are a willing participant, not a victim. If you think you deserve better, you know exactly what to do.
if he brings out the child in you, you're dating a man. if he brings out the mother in you, you're dating a boy. if he brings out the inner man in you, you're dating a loser
I’ll always be grateful for discovering SHEIN’s hidden gems omg ❤️😭
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One issue I had with my man before was his obsessive need to be everyone's hero.
One time he drove to take a "female friend" to the hospital because she had period cramps.
We argued about it.
So I went out and told him I had gone to help my male friend with how blue balls.