Before you say, “I do,” take time to visit your fiancé’s family home. Understand the environment that shaped them, the values they inherited, and the relationships they grew up around. Are kindness, respect and accountability present, or are there patterns of cruelty, conflict, manipulation and unresolved trauma? Is there witchcraft in their bloodline? Is suicide a generational matter in their DNA?
Meeting someone in Nairobi and rushing into marriage without understanding their background can become one of the most consequential emotional and financial decisions of your life. Love matters, but love alone does not reveal a person’s attitude toward money, family, responsibility, conflict or commitment.
Marriage is not merely a romantic decision. It is also a financial, social and generational partnership. You are not only choosing someone to love; you are choosing someone with whom you may build a home, raise children, manage resources and face life’s hardest seasons.
Many relationships fail because people prepare for the wedding but never investigate whether they are genuinely compatible for marriage. Before committing, discuss finances, family expectations, debt, faith, children, boundaries, conflict resolution and long-term goals. Love should lead the decision—but wisdom must guide it.
Until something happens to you, you may think you're very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, and always in control. But life can surprise you and show you that things are not always as easy as they look from the outside.
Modern dating created a generation that confuses emotional intensity with genuine connection.
Arguments feel like passion.
Uncertainty feels like excitement.
Emotional instability feels like chemistry.
Meanwhile, calm love gets labeled “boring” because peace does not stimulate people addicted to chaos.
Stay humble. You can seem like a millionaire to one person and a homeless person to the next. The ants think you are a giant, and the trees don't even notice you. You think you have a boring life, but the next person might be in love with your lifestyle. Don't compare. Ever. Everything is apple and oranges. Comparison is the thief of joy. Stay humble. And just be gareful for what you have. Life is just a big game of perspective.
When you hear politicians suddenly uniting to tell you who the “enemy” is, pause and ask yourself one question:
Who benefits when citizens are divided and distracted?
Too often, the political class closes ranks not to defend the people, but to defend the system that feeds them. They want Kenyans fighting each other while corruption, impunity, unemployment, and economic injustice continue unchecked.
The moment someone begins questioning the structure of exploitation, the wardens of the prison quickly unite and point at a new “enemy” to keep the prisoners distracted.
Kenyans must stop worshipping political camps and start defending principles. Accountability is not tribal. Justice is not regional. Truth is not partisan.
The real struggle is not between ordinary citizens. The real struggle is between a corrupt system and the people paying the price for it every day.
@Mercymasai3@MercyMissionKE A movement centered on mental health awareness, compassion, and offer real support to them. I’d genuinely love to tell you more about it sometime
@Mercymasai3@MercyMissionKE Your mindset on is refreshing. We actually share a similar vision around advocacy and community support, which is why I felt you might really align with something I’m building called the Gentle Giant Community
@Mercymasai3@MercyMissionKE What stands out most is not the manifesto, but the consistency of your actions long before politics staying present on the ground that already speaks leadership.
@Mercymasai3@muli_brian_ Hi Mercy, I’m helping build Gentle Giant Community — a movement focused on mental health awareness, compassion, and real community support.
We’re currently connecting with a few thoughtful people to become pioneer members, and I felt you might align with the vision.
@bakhita_esther Interestingly I used to think the exact same way for years But raising kids on my own changed how I see it.A husband celebrating the mother of his children is recognition of the role she plays in nurturing the family they're built together.