His Home or "Our Home"?
Dear woman, when you marry, don't enter the marriage thinking, 'I have come to live in my husband's house.' Enter, boldly declaring, 'I have come to build a home with my husband. A place that's ours.'
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Take Off The Masks
The the dangerous thing about termites is that they do not announce their presence, but rather, work in silence. From the outside, everything can look perfectly fine, while underneath, the structure is becoming weaker by the day.
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The Viper That Smiles
The most dangerous deceptions rarely arrive looking like a threat. Most times they come wrapped in warmth, disguised as safety, and coated in the euphoria of love and kindness.
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Oseme
Come closer; lie with me, through the hush of the night. Let the earth fall silent, beyond our firmly shut door.
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Breaking Wrongly Entrenched Norms: When the Scales Tilt
One of the deepest relationship wounds I witnessed growing up; and one that still quietly bleeds in many homes today; is the expectation that women should carry everyone's burdens. At the same time, no one stops to ask who carries theirs.
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Breaking Wrongly Entrenched Norms: Upbringing; Boys versus Girls
The inequality between men and women does not begin at the altar. It begins long before then; in the living room, at the dining table, and in the subtle lessons children absorb long before they understand the meaning of marriage.