When I first moved to the UK, I was squatting with my mom’s younger brother, who by the way is freaking rich!!!!
He’s lived here for most of his life and would visit Nigeria only during Christmas. Married a white woman and has kids.
I looked up to him, admired him and he was one of my favorite uncles. We had a good relationship for the longest of time before I left Nigeria.
However, after moving into his house I realized he is deputy Satan.
He treated me like shit. Talked down on me like I was beneath him. Would mock my “Nigerian accent”.
One day he saw me using the microwave and asked if I have ever used one in my life or if we had one in Nigeria. Asked if I knew what a washing machine is.
Me? First class graduate from FUTO with my IELTS band 8.0.
Many things I can’t remember now but one thing I can’t forget was one time his wife and son travelled in the summer.
It was on a Sunday and we’d just got back from church. I decided to make us lunch and so with my money I got stuffs from the shops.
I made him barbecue fish with plantain. Specially. I was happy doing something nice for this man. He accepted it after I served, or so I thought.
I went into my room until the next day when I was leaving early for work.
Just as I was about leaving the door, he called me back in. Asked why I decided to make him food yesterday. I responded that I just wanted to do something nice for him and since his wife wasn’t at home to cook for him, I decided to.
He looked me dead in the eye, said I should never offer anything again to him, told me he left “my fish” in the kitchen and I should take it back.
lol
I grew up in so much comfort that I’d never experienced “maltreatment” and anyone being condescending to me until my adult life.
Till today, I still ask God to help me forgive him because I’ve never hated someone in my entire life this much.
It was so bad that at a point I also resented my mom for being his sister. I resented their entire family.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
i highly recommend you find yourself a clingy(healthy) lovey dovey partner who's super excited about you. life is too short to spend it with someone who act like showing love is a chore.
@MrMekzy_ Ana ebúzō anōrō ala ma na ádàbere.
English:
You have to sit first before relaxing.
Explanation:
You must be rooted in something before you can spread out ...it actually has so many translations tho
There was a time I used to have very SEVERE Menstrual Cramps,
you know, the kind that disrupts everything.
I couldn’t sit. I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t walk. There was no comfortable position at all.
A friend even told me that I'll have to have sexual intercourse to make it stop. Assured me it wouldn’t stop until I had sex.
I thank God that season passed without me compromising myself.
It eventually stopped, and I didn’t have to do something I wasn’t ready for just because of pain or pressure.
I believe that Sometimes your body just heals by itself.
And not every problem requires you to cross your boundaries.
I honestly don’t understand people who say they’re tired of eating rice. How can you get tired of eating rice?? The types and variants of rice are too many to be boring. I can eat it everyday for one full year.
I Told my Therapist:
“I feel safest when I do everything alone.” She didn't even ask why. She just said, "That's not independence. That's grief. And I swear. I felt something in me break open.
Because it is grief, isn't it? Grief for every time you asked for help and no one showed up. Grief for being the child who had to hold it all together while everyone else fell apart. Grief for realizing way too young, that no one was ever really coming to save you. You didn't choose to be strong. You had to be.