Damilola Adegboye

Men have stories they rarely tell. Heartbreak, fatherhood, healing & rebuilding. Anonymous confessions. Honest conversations. 🖤

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

Welcome to PastThePleading. 🖤

Some men loved deeply and lost themselves trying to save a relationship.

Some became fathers in relationships that didn’t survive.

Some are still hurting. Others are quietly rebuilding.

This is a space for the stories men rarely tell.

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

@MR_COOL77777 @grok Isnt this racism?

[Davido @davido]

15 years ago today na when the real problem start Happy Birthday Dami Duro ⚡️

[A'isha 🥰💎 @Bibitayo25]

Defence done❌❌❌
Defence attacked✅✅

[GanaJnr @FinePopo]

As money de enter account, naso e de commot. And person no even know wetin he de use all the money do self.

Otisunmi o😭

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

God will delay your money until you fix your discipline.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Someone stole $5.6 billion from Binance today, the biggest crypto exchange on earth, and within a few hours $2.4 billion of it was frozen by two companies.

The $3.2 billion nobody can touch is the actual crypto.

The biggest chunk left in a single Ethereum transaction. One Binance hot wallet sent 167,464 ETH, about 1.6 billion USDT, and more than 60 other tokens to a brand new address in one shot. Add the Bitcoin and Tron wallets and on-chain trackers put the total around $5.6 billion, which would make it the biggest theft crypto has ever seen.

Then Tether froze about $1.56 billion of the USDT and Circle froze $823 million in USDC. Funny thing is, $823 million is exactly how much USDC the hacker took.

Now look at what's still out there. 18,270 bitcoin worth about $1.45 billion, $875 million in ETH, and a few hundred million more in Tron and smaller tokens. None of it can be frozen, because no company holds a key and the Bitcoin network doesn't have a customer service line.

That's Bitcoin doing exactly what Satoshi built it to do. He designed a network where no bank or government could ever stop your transaction, and the same rule protects a thief's. Stablecoins went the opposite direction. USDT and USDC are basically dollars in a blockchain costume, and Tether and Circle wrote a blacklist function right into the contracts so they can freeze any address they want. Crypto purists have called that a betrayal of the whole idea for years. Tonight it's the reason roughly 40% of the biggest heist ever might come back.

Crypto spent 17 years trying to cut out the middleman, and today the middleman is the only reason anybody's getting money back.

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

What made me stopped calling her, guys! 😭

[Àsàké Alágbo (Herbals) 🪴🌿 @Asake_Alagbo]

The way you will vibrate, the guy go think say you get warapa😭😭😭

Works like m.a.d!!!!

[Nigeria Police Force @PoliceNG]

Good morning, Nigerians!

Find attached the updated phone numbers of Police Public Relations Officers (PPROs) across the 36 states and the FCT. You can reach out to the PPRO in your state for enquiries, information or assistance on police-related matters.

Thank you.

[Foundational Nupe Lawyer @egi_nupe]

She wants to decentre him 😂

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

A kú ọláa Jímọ̀ o

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

A 35-year-old man living in Ireland just shared the full story of why he’s considering ending his marriage. He met his wife in 2017, they got married in March 2022, and had their son in December 2022.

Everything seemed fine until the baby arrived. His wife’s older sister (two years older than his wife) started coming over almost every weekend “to help.”

At first he didn’t mind, but once they settled into parenthood he asked her to ease up on the frequent visits. She didn’t. She kept finding new reasons to come and stay over.

In 2023 she got a new boyfriend and the two of them started showing up together with even weaker excuses.

In 2024, while he was working from home, his wife and her sister arranged for the sister to use their apartment for “practice” without telling him. When he confronted them, his wife said she forgot.

The sister apologized and claimed she thought he’d already been informed. He shut that down: the house is not for business use.

They moved into a new place in 2025.

Within days the sister-in-law announced she wanted to come and stay over. He said no. He called her directly and told her she could come help them unpack, but she had to sleep at her boyfriend’s place (15 minutes away).

Almost immediately his wife accused him of blocking her family and trying to control her. The sister began telling people he was denying her access to her nephew. His wife even told his own sister that the sister-in-law and boyfriend “aren’t comfortable” visiting when he’s around.

He got furious and told everyone he no longer wanted anything to do with them. He became strictly cordial. He warned his wife that if she invited them, he would simply leave the house because he would see it as her choosing them over their own family.

In February this year, his wife and her sister quietly planned a trip out of the country for the weekend of his wife’s birthday. He only found out in April.

He told her it was unacceptable, but that she should go ahead and plan her future with her sister if that’s what she wanted. She ended up not going, but the interference didn’t stop.

His wife is now 30 (turned 30 in May). He says she keeps pretending not to understand the boundaries he’s raising, and he believes it will only get worse. He’s currently considering ending the marriage.

When I asked if the sister was the older one, he confirmed yes. older by two years. He also clarified the ages: wife turned 30 this year, he’s 35.

That's his story.

I believe you all know why I asked that question.

What would you do in his position?

End.

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

Can this excessive El Niño heat make you miss your period? Here's the answer

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Moment man ended things with his partner over the payment of her office rent

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Woman shares her s!ck son's reaction after his sister brought home his homework

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

@jon_d_doe Good Morning, Agba.

You made the week impactful with your knowledge and wisdom. Thank you 😊

Do have a joyous weekend.

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

@DearS_o_n You should attract and not chase, Son.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

You gotta trust me, son. Any woman rejecting you is actually the universe protecting you.

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

@FinePopo @DeeYoungJohn Should we do race competition with price tag then?

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

Accountability should help you grow, not keep you imprisoned in your past. 🖤

[Damilola Adegboye @PastThePleading]

Healing isn’t convincing yourself that you did nothing wrong.

Sometimes, you have to admit where you failed, apologise where you caused hurt, and learn what you must never repeat.

You can take responsibility for your mistakes without believing you deserve to suffer forever.