Your SPOUSE is the one who'll sit beside you when your PARENTS DIE. who'll hold your hand through CHILDBIRTH. who might have to BATHE YOU if you're ever too sick to stand. this isn't just about BUTTERFLIES or DATE NIGHTS. it's about choosing someone who SHOWS UP... in GRIEF, in MESS, in UNCERTAINTY. so no, LOVE ALONE isn't enough. COMMITMENT, MATURITY, and the ability to ENDURE life's ugly parts... that's what sustains a MARRIAGE. because when life gets PAINFULLY REAL, ROMANCE won't carry you... CHARACTER will. and the truth is, FOREVER is only possible with someone who knows how to STAY when it's HARD TO LOVE.
Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.
The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.
After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.
Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.
The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.
Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.
Love me a clingy man.
The type that reaches for my hand without thinking.
Calls just to hear my voice, and acts like one day without me is too long.
Soft with his love and not ashamed to show it.
A “have you eaten and what do you need?” kind of man.
My personal disturbance and safe place at the same time.
My type is him. My favorite body type is whatever his body looks like that day. My favorite scent, whatever he’s got on. It’s always been him, in every little way. 🤍
I love a man who wants to see me every chance he gets. I love a man who plan dates & just tell me to get ready. I love a man who buy me flowers without asking. I love a man who loves me like I'm the air he breathes. Keep the nonchalant, non planners far away from me.
i told my man straight up… if i gotta keep explaining how to treat me, that’s not love… that’s training. and he looked me dead in my face and said, “i never asked you to stay.” that’s when it clicked… some men don’t actually want a good woman, they just want access to one. and somehow we get stuck thinking it’s our job to teach them how to love us right… when really, they already decided they weren’t going to.✌🏾💯
i want a soft connection. i want to be asked how my day went and if i need anything. i want forehead kisses. i want the back of my hand kissed at red lights. i want to be asked how i’m mentally feeling. i want to hold hands everywhere we go. i want romantic gestures. i want my hair played in at the most unexpected moments. i want silent eye connections that lead to smiles. i want to take random walks. Is that too much? 🥺
Ladies:
You should be drinking kefir, eating sauerkraut, blueberries, walnuts, garlic, and a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil every single day.
Trust me, your gut lining, your bloating, your skin, and your energy will thank you.
Be mindful of the garlic for those who are SIBO sensitive.
Or take a food sensitivity test first.
I love a sweet a$$ nigga 😩😩😩😍😍 not a SOFT a$$ nigga but a SWEET one.. take you on dates & shit, tell you how pretty you are.. send you cute lil messages every once in a while! Just a man who shows you that he enjoys YOUR company & adores tf outta youuu😭😭🥰🥰✨
Cheapest Months To Visit These Countries:
France → November & December
Japan → May & September
Thailand → May & June
USA → January & February
Australia → April & August
Italy → October & November
UAE → June & July
New Zealand → May & September
Canada → January & February
Indonesia → June & July
Turkey → November & March
Greece → October & November
Portugal → November & December
South Korea → May & June
Mexico → January & February
Switzerland → October & November
Egypt → June & July
Spain → November & December
Netherlands → January & March
Vietnam → May & September
Argentina → April & August
Morocco → October & November
i hate how physical touch as a love language gets reduced to sex and kissing when it's more like... handholding, laying your head on their shoulder, putting your legs over their lap, tracing their palm, tucking your feet under their thighs. just touching for touching's sake.
The fruit with the most fat is coconut.
The fruit with the most sugar is dates.
The fruit with the most protein is jackfruit.
The fruit with the most vitamin C is guava.
The fruit with the most vitamin A is mango.
The fruit with the most fiber is raspberries.
The fruit with the most antioxidants is blueberries.
The fruit with the most calcium is figs.
The fruit with the most vitamin K is kiwi.
The fruit with the most water is watermelon.
The fruit with the most potassium is banana.
The fruit with the most natural melatonin is tart cherries.
The fruit with the most vitamin E is mamey sapote.
The fruit with the most iron is mulberries.
The fruit with the most healthy fats is avocado.
The fruit with the most folate is papaya.
The fruit with the most resveratrol is red grapes.
The fruit with the most vitamin B6 is bananas.
The fruit with the most pectin is apples.
The fruit with the most bromelain is pineapple.
The fruit with the most lycopene is pink grapefruit.
The fruit with the most magnesium is tamarind.
The fruit with the most manganese is pineapple.
The fruit with the most lycopene is pink grapefruit.
The fruit with the most lutein and zeaxanthin is honeydew melon.
The fruit with the most sorbitol is prunes.
The fruit with the most niacin (Vitamin B3) is avocado.
The fruit with the most zinc is blackberries.
The fruit with the most quercetin is cranberries.
The fruit with the most riboflavin (Vitamin B2) is passion fruit.
The fruit with the most phosphorus is passion fruit.
The fruit with the most selenium is soursop.
Since you’re taking “naturally”, I’ll tell you for free.
If you can’t apply retinol on your skin, eat it; sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach.
If you can’t apply niacinamide on your skin, eat it; peanuts, tuna, chicken breast.
If you can’t apply salicylic acid on your skin, eat it; grapes, tomatoes, strawberries.
If you can’t apply hyaluronic acid on your skin, eat it; watermelon, cucumber, bone broth.
If you can’t apply vitamin C on your skin, eat it; oranges, berries, bell peppers.
If you can’t apply peptides on your skin, eat it; eggs, lentils, lean meat, flaxseeds.
If you can’t apply azelaic acid on your skin, eat it; wheat, barley.
If you can’t apply sunscreen, eat it; tomatoes, watermelon, green tea.
Whatever you do, do not let your parents transfer their house into your name.
Instead, do what the wealthy do.
If your parents are retiring and they tell you they want to sign the deed of the house over to you, maybe they bought the house for next to nothing back in the eighties and now it is worth $800,000, do not do it.
If they transfer it to you while they are alive, you will take their original tax basis. This means that when you eventually sell, you will have to pay capital gains tax on the entire increase in value since they bought it. The taxman does not care that it was a gift.
Here is what the wealthiest families do instead:
Step 1: Set up a revocable living trust and place the home inside it.
It keeps your parents in full control while they are alive, but sets up a smooth, private transfer later.
Step 2: Your parents should name you as the beneficiary of the trust. That way, when they pass away, the house automatically moves to you with no court involvement and no probate.
Step 3: When you inherit the house through the trust, you get a stepped-up basis. That means you only pay capital gains tax on any increase in value that occurs after they passed away, not on the huge appreciation since the 1980s.
That single move can save you over $120,000 in taxes.
That is how you pass inheritance to your children without losing a dollar to the system.
If you want to stop the government from taking a cut of your family’s hard-earned assets, follow these steps.
I've been married 15 years. Still married because we treat these like law:
• Bed is for sleep and sex only
• No phones in bedroom
• Kids asleep? We talk. 5 mins or 3 hours. Doesn't matter. We talk
• Pray together before sleep
• We eat every meal together
• No screens when eating
• And we never, and I mean NEVER criticize each other in public
Your marriage is your son's blueprint, and your daughter's standard.
Make sure you lead at the front and everyone will follow.
If your wife can’t bring up something difficult without you getting defensive, you’re showing her silence is safer than honesty.
And that’s how you
become roommates.