Be careful whose marriage advice you accept!
A person struggling in their own marriage can package destruction as advice and call it wisdom.
Sometimes, what sounds like advice is simply someone else's pain looking for a new victim.
Be wise.
My wife found out I was HIV positive four months ago.
She has tested negative twice.
But she says the problem isn’t the virus anymore.
It’s that I knew, kept it from her, and still slept with her.
She packed her things, left with our children, and now says I can only see them under supervision.
I keep begging her to come back. She says she can never trust me again.
I told her I made one terrible mistake, not because I wanted to infect her, but because I was scared and ashamed.
She says fear is not an excuse for taking away someone’s right to make an informed decision.
If you were the wife, would you ever go back?
@its_Sophia_24 They’ll keep saying they want peace and then proceed to do things that disrupt peace 🤦♀️ while still expecting you to be quiet to maintain the supposed peace they’ve damaged
First five years as a Litigation Attorney will teach you these:
1. Being employed as a Litigation Lawyer is not as glamorous as it was painted to us at the University and Law school. The reality is far more exhausting, tasky and demanding.
2. You will get anxious appearing before some court rooms regardless of your expertise and experience. Confidence as a Litigation Attorney is what you grow into and doesn't come with the call to bar certificate. You build it from showing up day by day.
3. You can never know everything as a Litigation lawyer but you must subscribe yourself to continuous learning to serve your clients better. Seeking the right mentorship on case to case basis is fundamental and expedient.
4. You will lose some cases and win some. There will be days for you and days against you in court. When it is day for you, be happy and celebrate. When it is day against you, be patient and learn from the court's reasoning. Both days teach lessons you cannot learn from the textbooks.
5. Litigation is exhausting because everything is time bound. The day you are briefed of a case is the day the client has transferred the problem unto you. Your mind will start working and running to find solution to the problem. As a Litigation Lawyer, not everyday feels meaningful or satisfying; a truth many young wigs quietly live with.
6. Some of your mates in other spheres will seem to make it faster than you whilst your journey takes longer. Learning in Litigation is an investment that can change the trajectory of your life within a twinkle of an eye hence, you need more than the knowledge. You need patience!!! Comparison will steal your peace and joy.
7. In some cases, opposing counsel appear to be more truthful than your own clients. Human beings too de lie o.
Most clients lie to their lawyers primarily out of fear, shame, and the desire to control the narrative. They may attempt to hide embarrassing details, minimize their own faults, or manufacture a "better" story, hoping to avoid punishment or manipulate their legal outcome.
8. Your client's case is not your personal battle. Show empathy, care deeply but do not lose yourself in matters that are not yours to carry emotionally. Emotional intelligence is key for a successful legal practice. If you don't guard your emotions, some clients will make you engage in professional misconduct and leave you to face it when the consequences show up.
9. You will feel intimidated by senior colleagues and Judges in court. Ahhhh, you will make mistakes that will make them laugh at you. Every expert was once an amateur and no man is an Island. With experience, fear slowly turns into familiarity.
10. Some days feel to repetitive; you wake up to go to court, conduct a search, draft a correspondence, meet deadlines, conduct clients during interviews, write minutes of meetings, get home late, empty and tired. That's also part of the journey, counsel. Brace up!!
11. You will eventually see reasons why many brilliant lawyers left litigation for other areas of human endeavours. You will realistically see that what you watch in movies and skits is different from what happens in real life in court. Some lawyers thrive excellently in it whilst some keep struggling day by day whilst hoping of a good future in it. Both realities exist and they are valid.
12. You will be forced to sit down and decide one thing: whether to continue on the path or find something else to do. Whether to go home or go harder.
Rahma cares ✍️
The real reason why women suddenly start looking hotter after a breakup or divorce is actually science backed.
That man is not only traumatising you, he’s also raising your cortisol levels and making you UGLIER.😭
A man ended his 10 year marriage because the woman had been unable to give birth.
He immediately remarried
The woman also remarried, became pregnant and gave birth
While the man is still looking for a child
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.
Parenting has no manual. Drunkards have raised priests, holy families have raised drunkards, chiefs have raised thieves, peasant farmers have raised doctors, and rich men have raised beggars. Success is relative, so don't judge other people's children.
She waited 8 years for a ring that never came.
I know this woman personally.
Every December, family members would ask the same question:
"So, when is the wedding?"
And every year she smiled and said, "Soon."
She defended him constantly.
When friends told her she was wasting her time, she said he was just trying to become financially stable first.
When relatives questioned his intentions, she said good things take time.
So she waited.
She attended weddings alone while telling people her turn was coming.
She watched younger cousins get engaged, married, and even have children.
Still, she stayed.
Then one afternoon, someone sent her a wedding invitation.
His wedding invitation.
At first, she thought it was a mistake.
It wasn't.
The man she had spent nearly a decade with was getting married.
Just not to her.
The most painful part wasn't even the wedding.
It was discovering that he had met the other woman less than a year earlier.
Eight years with one person.
A proposal within months for another.
People were angry for her. Some blamed the man. Others blamed her for staying so long.
But what she said later stayed with me.
She said, "I wasn't waiting for a proposal. I was waiting for proof that all those years meant something."
That hit hard.
Sometimes people don't stay because they're happy.
They stay because they've already invested too much to walk away.
Have you ever seen someone spend years waiting for a future that never came?
My aunt stayed married to her husband for 14 years
For years, nobody questioned him. He was the kind of husband people admired. He paid the bills, drove a nice car, showed up at family events and always seemed busy. If you asked where he was, the answer was usually the same: work. Abuja one week. Accra the next. Sometimes he’d leave on a Thursday and return on Sunday looking exhausted but successful. His wife never liked the constant travel, but whenever she complained, he reminded her that the lifestyle they enjoyed came from those trips.
The first crack appeared when she noticed he became strangely protective of his phone. Calls were answered outside. Messages were deleted almost immediately. If she asked questions, he’d accuse her of being insecure. Over time she stopped asking. Not because she trusted him, but because every conversation turned into an argument. She focused on the children, the house and her own peace of mind. At least that’s what she told herself.
Then one afternoon, while he was away on another “business trip,” she received a message from a woman she had never met. There was no greeting. No introduction. Just a photograph. Her husband was in the picture. Shirtless. Smiling. Holding a woman who clearly wasn’t his wife. At first she thought it had to be fake. Then more pictures arrived. Hotel rooms. Restaurant dates. Selfies taken over months. The timestamps stretched back years.
When he came home, she didn’t scream. She didn’t cry. She simply placed the phone in front of him and waited. He stared at the screen for a long time before finally speaking. What shocked her wasn’t that he admitted cheating. It was how casually he admitted it. Almost as if he was relieved to stop hiding. According to him, none of it meant anything. They were just distractions. Just fun. Just temporary. His marriage, he insisted, was what truly mattered.
His wife couldn’t understand how a man could lie for years and still claim to be a good husband.
He couldn’t understand why she was willing to throw away a marriage over something he considered separate from family life. The more they talked, the more obvious it became that they weren’t arguing about cheating. They were arguing about what marriage actually meant. To her, loyalty was part of love. To him, providing for the family seemed to outweigh everything else.
The divorce happened last year. He still says he loved her. She says love without loyalty is just a comfortable lie. And honestly, that’s the part I still think about.
Can someone genuinely love their spouse while repeatedly betraying them, or does repeated cheating prove that whatever they’re calling love isn’t really love at all? 💔
There's a specific kind of respect that comes from watching your father talk to God like God is actually in the room. Not a performance. Not a ritual. A conversation. Your children need to see that kind of certainty.
Yesterday, a young woman was rushed into the hospital bleeding heavily.
She held the nurse’s hand tightly and whispered through tears:
“Please don’t tell my husband yet… he has been so excited about this pregnancy. I can’t break his heart.” 💔
Minutes later, the scan confirmed the worst. A miscarriage at 10 weeks.
The cry that left that woman’s mouth silenced the entire room. Even some of the nurses struggled to hold back tears.
Two days later, she returned for a follow-up scan.
Her eyes were swollen from crying. You could tell she hadn’t slept.
Then during the scan, the radiologist suddenly froze and whispered:
“Wait… there’s a heartbeat.”
It turned out she had been carrying twins.
One baby sadly didn’t survive, but the other one survived
The moment she heard the heartbeat again, she screamed, laughed and cried all at once.
Then her husband was asked to come in. Both of them broke down in tears right there in the hospital.
This time, they were tears of relief ❤️
May all TTC Mums receive their miracle this year 🙏
One thing I’ve learned is that God will never ask you to release something without already knowing how He plans to provide what comes next. Sometimes letting go feels painful. It might be a relationship, a friendship, a habit, a comfort zone, or a season of life you never wanted to leave behind. But if God is asking you to release it, trust that He sees something you cannot.
God doesn’t remove things from your life just to leave you empty-handed. He removes what is no longer serving His purpose for you so He can make room for something better something healthier, more aligned, and that brings peace instead of confusion.
So if God has been telling you to let go of something lately, trust Him. What He has waiting for you will always be greater than what you had to leave behind.