My wife and I almost lost our marriage to a friendship.
Not an affair.
Not another man.
Her best friend.
It started small.
A text here. A call there.
"She just gets me."
I didn't think anything of it.
Until I noticed my wife told her things she didn't tell me.
Hard days at work. Fears about the kids. Doubts about us.
Her best friend got the real her.
I got the tired version.
The leftover version.
The one who said "I'm fine" when I asked how she was.
One night I found her crying on the phone.
With her.
Not me.
I stood in the doorway.
She didn't even notice.
That's when I realized:
I wasn't losing my wife to another man.
I was losing her to a counterfeit intimacy that felt safer than me.
No risk.
No vulnerability.
No covenant weight.
Just comfort without cost.
I sat her down the next morning.
"I feel like I'm third in my own marriage."
She got defensive at first.
"She's just my friend. You're overreacting."
But then I asked:
"When's the last time you told me something before you told her?"
Silence.
She couldn't remember.
Neither could I.
We didn't fix it overnight.
But we started.
She stopped running to her phone when she was hurting.
She came to me instead.
Awkward at first.
We'd forgotten how.
Your wife doesn't need a best friend who "gets her."
She needs a husband who pursues her.
And brother…
If she's running to someone else with her heart?
Maybe it's because you stopped being safe enough to hold it.
Your spouse should know you better than anyone on earth.
If they don't, that's not their failure.
It's your invitation.
Go get your wife back.
Not from another man.
From the counterfeit comfort she's settled for.
Because you stopped showing up.
All federal funding for grants, loans and programs will be paused as of 1/28/25 at 5pm. This means that NO MORE FUNDS WILL BE DISBURSED. Some of the funding areas affected include:
1. Head start and federally subsidized daycares
2. STUDENT FINANCIAL AID AND GRANTS
3. SNAP BENEFITS/ Food Stamps
4. Non-profits that receive federal funds or grants
5. ACA Health Insurance (premiums may rise)
6. Education programs funded federally i.e. After School programs, Special Ed
7. Medical Research/Cancer/Infectious Diseases
8. MEDICAID (Medicare and Social Security may be soon).
9. Affordable Housing and Section 8 payments
10. Foreign Aid
11. Clinics
This list is NOT exhaustive. I pray that those who voted for this especially for RACIST ideologies now understand that CLASSISM doesn’t care about your race. NOT ONE PERSON who benefits from and who is in need of federal funding/assistance is exempt from this. JESUS, BE A FENCE!
~Cheryl D. Moore~
Sharelle, how u judging Stoni for a sex tape but Chad head butted Evelyn and caught a domestic violence case. Not to mention MJae just got arrested for beating up Kodak baby momma and smashed his windows of his cars, but you’re embracing her with open arms #WAGsToRiches
I’m sorry, but we live in a country where we tell our kids they can do anything, yet a QUALIFIED black woman lost to a felon. The message that sends is, no matter how qualified a woman is…her accolades won’t matter… because she’s a woman.
Kamala was OVER QUALIFIED.
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This support 🥹 a partner that supports you and is your biggest fan…will make you feel like you can take on the world. Man is out there with a TEAM Tara shirt, not team USA…Team Tara. Love it.