Nobody likes you when you're depressed.
Plain and simple. We can talk all day about mental health and how important it is, but the moment you are depressed, people start to distance themselves. They see you as negative, a burden, and someone too heavy to handle.
According to psychology, one of the most common mistakes people make in relationships is assuming that their partner thinks, feels, and processes the world the same way they do. This is called the false consensus effect. You project your own emotional patterns onto them. You assume that if they loved you, they would react the way you react, express love the way you express it, apologize the way you apologize. And when they do not, you interpret it as a lack of love. But that is not fair. People are wired differently. They have different attachment styles, different love languages, different coping mechanisms, different nervous systems. Your partner may love you deeply, but express it in ways that do not match your expectations. The key is not to assume. It is to learn. To ask. To be curious about how they experience the world. Because love is not about finding someone who loves you exactly the way you love them. It is about understanding how they love, and choosing to receive it for what it is.
every car dealer prepares a used car before selling it to a new buyer.
the seats are wrapped in nylon. sometimes it gets a fresh paint job. visible dents are repaired, then the mileage is rolled back.
the goal?
to make the care more appealing to the next unsuspecting buyer.
I have said it countless times, and I’ll continue to say it for those who care to listen. I like women a lot. You may not understand the depth to which I like them, but every chance I get, I’ll continue to list reasons why.
Today, I like women because of how ruthless they are when it comes to choosing themselves. Women put themselves first, unapologetically. They are insensitive in situations that require empathy, privacy, or genuine respect for the person affected.
Last year, a guy replied to a tweet in which he said he broke up with his then-girlfriend because she has PCOS, and hell broke loose on this app. Women called him a misogynist, an incel, and every sort of demeaning and disgusting name for his CHOICE.
To make it worse, there were also men who tried to make him feel bad, gaslight him, and insult him for that same CHOICE. That tweet has over 5 million impressions because they kept dragging him for that single CHOICE.
Go through the comments and quotes on this tweet: it is filled with “valid” from women especially, and they don’t see anything wrong with it. In fact, I respect that about them, because, just like I said earlier, I like women a lot. And one of the things I like about them is how unapologetically ruthless they are when making decisions, especially regarding men and dating.
There’s no scenario where a woman wouldn’t put herself first. Whether it hurts you or not is irrelevant. Men should learn from them.
I will never applaud this.
Attractiveness is big factor for men when choosing a spouse but women always develop amnesia about this when they finally get married.
The same way you expect the man to keep hustling when he marries you is the same way he expects you to stay attractive in the marriage. But no, yall want to remain complacent and develop whale tendencies when married only to suddenly remember you need to "glow up" when you finally get divorced.
I'm simply not impressed.
The moment Nigeria gets balkanized, that's when you'll realize that inside that your Yoruba Ronu, another Ronu dey inside.
Ijebu will start clamoring for regional autonomy in this new Oduduwa republic. Ekiti, Ijesha, Egba etc will all have competing interests.
You know why?
Because before the colonizers came, these people were not fucking...
dancing around in a circle holding hands and weeping with joy about how united in Oduduwa they were.
No.
They were literally putting bullets in each other's bodies and forcing each other into slavery in a multi century back and forth struggle.
There was no "Yoruba" in the homogenous nation state sense of the word.
And what about the middle belt? In Benue state for example, there are dozens (yes, DOZENS) of tribes who don't like each other and will not hesitate to pick up a knives or rifles to settle old scores.
The Fulani and Berom need no introduction.
Even in the core north, many young Hausa are increasingly discontent about the absolute political dominance of the Fulani despite outnumbering them.
Islam can only go so far to quell a people with so much latent resentment.
What about Igbo land?
Some Abia parents won't let their kids marry from the next village.
Anambra people turn up their noses at Ebonyi people and consider them lesser Igbos.
Okay nau.
By the time the "Ebonyi Liberation Movement" picks up EU-supplied rifles now to fight the "tyrants in Awka" everybody mind go dey.
When the "Imo Freedom Army" (IMA) suddenly pop out of nowhere and demand full control of the humongous reserves of natural gas deposits (up to 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas)...
And this same IMA starts bombing government buildings in Enugu and Anambra to get their point across....
Everybody go understand.
What about the South South where I'm from?
The rest of the Edo people most likely will not recognize the "divine" authority of the far away Oba of Benin and could pick up arms to settle their differences.
The Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri and dozens upon dozens of smaller tribes will 100% pick up every weapon they can find to secure the oil for themselves.
So Mr/Mrs. Secessionist, I want you to understand that the problems of neocolonialism, bad governance and bigotry you're running away from in Nigeria will not magically disappear the moment you get Biafra 2.0, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan or any other ethno state.
You will simply plunge this patch of West Africa into a multi pronged civil war that will last many many decades.
Sudan, Libya and Somalia will look like a paradise.
There will be total collapse of supply chains, bandits and terrorists would carve out their own territories and the colonizers will be arming every slack witted tribal chest thumping young man with a rusted AK47 to kill his fellow miserable black man so Mr. Colonizer can keep extracting Lithium, Oil and gold for dirt cheap.
You will waste generations and millions of people will starve to death .
This is one of the reasons I am so so militant about this.
The colonizers forced us together. That is true.
But it's up to us if we want to keep flinging sand and knives at each other, or if we want to work together toward prosperity for our future and our children.
A Nigeria that works for everybody is the way. Toss your stupid Biafra, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan ideas into the trash and light it on fire.
The fact that many married women have pictures like this with men they didn’t marry and those pictures will never make it to the internet is proof that men are good people!!!
One day, women will learn to give men their flowers.
Unpopular opinion, I don’t believe you should have to pay for the same mistake 1,000 times. Rebuilding trust takes time. But you gotta learn the difference between earning someone’s forgiveness vs being put through a humiliation ritual out of spite.
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