When we first met, he told me he was living with his parents. His father's house had many rooms, so he didn’t need to rent. The girl I was five years ago would have said, "Thank you, but I don’t date a man who lives with his parents." But there’s one thing that comes with maturing or experiencing different shades of life: it makes you understand that the same situations can bring different stories. I said yes, hoping our story wouldn’t be like that failed relationship story I read on Silent Beads. He would come to my place bearing gifts and smiles. He would help around while telling me stories of how it feels to live with your parents at thirty. "They don’t respect your age ooo. They can send you to go and buy charcoal when you’ve just returned from buying pepper from the street." After three months of dating, I realized he’d met my friends and my mom, but I hadn’t met anyone from his side. He told me he didn’t have friends. I said fine. He told me he would take me home to say hi to his parents one day. I said okay. It didn’t sit well with me that I would date a man for three months and not know where he lived, so I started pressing him to take me home. He gave me excuses. He said his father hates to see him with a woman and that once he takes me home, his father might think he’s going to sleep with me and won’t respect me or our relationship again. I said, "That’s fine, but I want to see the brick-and-mortar you live in. I want to know the area, the color of your building, the color of the gate. Do you have a dog in there? I want to hear how it barks." Six months later, he decided to take me home. Not only to see the color of the building but to visit his room and spend the night. The Uber stopped right in front of his gate. He said, "You see, it’s a brown gate and a yellow house. Easy to see." He walked in as I followed. It was around 8 p.m. Immediately, we stepped into the compound, his demeanor changed. He murmured something loud enough for me to hear: "Why’s the light in my parents’ room on?" He asked me to wait while he went in to check. I was standing in the compound when a man walked up to me from behind the house. He asked who I was looking for. You look at his face and the way he walks, and you realize it’s the father. I answered respectfully, "I came with Kojo, but he’s inside." He changed from nonchalant to concerned. He asked, "Kojo is in the house?" I nodded. He asked again, "Who are you? Who are you to him?" I answered while bowing, "He’s my friend." I said friend, but he got angry. Then he shouted Kojo’s name. When Kojo was coming out, his mom followed, and then a boy, and later a girl. His face didn’t look cheerful—like he had encountered a ghost and wanted to run. His father said, "So you thought we hadn’t returned, so you were sneaking in your new victim, right?" His mom asked who I was, and I said a friend. She asked, "A friend, and you’re being sneaked in at this time? What kind of friends are you?" I stood there watching while those two kids kept calling him Daddy and asking him a series of questions, like children always do. I was getting the message. All was not well. His mom said, "These two kids are his. I hope you know that already?" His dad added, "He had them with two different women. I hope you also know that? He impregnated the women in the same month, so these two kids were born days apart. Do you know all that?" I started smiling shyly. His dad wasn’t having it. His mom kept smiling. She said, "If you know all that and you’re still happy, then welcome home." I took two steps backward. I looked at Kojo’s face, but he avoided my gaze. I thanked his parents and told them I didn’t know all that because he hadn’t told me. I mentioned his name and said goodbye to him. I walked out of the gate with a heavy head and a heart that was falling apart. When I got home, I texted him, "Thank you for letting me know your house. At least, I now know which house to avoid the next time I’m in the vicinity." He said sorry. He said he was going to tell me the truth but slowly. He said he didn’t want to lose me and that he was serious when he said he was going to marry me. My response was, "Do me a favor. Please lose my number and miss your way to my place. I can’t be your third baby mama." End.

Long-distance relationships are emotional traps for untrained men. You sit there texting, calling, promising her forever, While she’s out there collecting attention like it’s oxygen. You think she’s yours because of “love”? No, bro. She’s loyal to her options. Her environment. Her emotions. And when the right guy shows up and touches the right nerve, Your long-distance promise means nothing. Let me burn the fantasy: You’re in bed dreaming of her. Some other man is in her bed, giving her what you only type. You send good morning texts. He sends dopamine with eye contact and masculine presence. You plan FaceTime dates. He plans real ones, with his hands around her waist, not emojis on a screen. Women don’t stay loyal to absence. They stay loyal to presence, pressure, and power. And a man who lets distance test loyalty Is a man who's gambling with a loaded gun pointed at his pride. You think you're “building trust”? You’re just feeding her attention-starved ego while she's busy entertaining "just friends." You think love will carry the weight? No. Only masculine presence, real-world imprinting, and boundaries keep her in check. At Girls Approach, we teach men how to dominate the room, not text their worth across borders. If you can’t show up in person, you better show up in power. Otherwise? You're just emotionally funding her connection with the next bold guy in her city. Let the truth be told: A woman’s loyalty is as stable as the attention she receives. Distance doesn’t protect your bond. It exposes the illusion of one. If you disappoint, you must appear before the council of brotherhood, and explain why you've decided to disgrace everybody. No whining. This is Girls Approach energy. This is dominance without desperation. If you’re not in her world physically, someone else will be. Step up or step aside. This is warfare. Get hard or go home. #girlsapproach ➥𝐼𝑓 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡 & 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒⇅

Friendship: True friendship involves a strong bond built on trust, loyalty, and mutual respect, where individuals accept each other unconditionally, offer unwavering support, and prioritize each other's well-being. It's a relationship where individuals can confide in each other without fear of judgment, and where honesty and kindness are the hallmarks of communication. True friends are present through thick and thin, cheering each other's successes and offering a shoulder to cry on during difficult times.

FACTS... 1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes. 2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years. 3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime. 4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger. 5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother. 6. If a part of your body "falls asleep", You can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head. 7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - food, attractive people and danger. 8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side. 9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odor. 10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years. 11. There are so many kinds of apples, that if you ate a new one every day, it would take over 20 years to try them all. 12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping. 13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t. 14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking. 15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia. 16. Our brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb!! 17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 minutes to boil 1.5 liters of water!! 18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell!! 19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!! 20. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant. 21. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. 22. When you wake up in the morning, pray to ask God's guidance for your purpose, today. 23. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants. 24. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds. 25. Try to make at least three people smile each day. 26. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts and things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment. 27. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card. 28. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 29. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for everything. 30. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 31. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 32. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present. 33. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 34. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. 35. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?' 36. Help the needy, Be generous! Be a 'Giver' not a 'Taker' 37. What other people think of you is none of your business. 38. Time heals everything. 39. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 40. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch. 41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 42. Each night before you go to bed, pray to God and be thankful for what you accomplished, today. What if you woke up this morning and only had what you thanked God for yesterday? DON’T FORGET TO THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING. 43. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

His name is Felix. This is one of our brothers from Nigeria that came to buy goods in China. So 3 days ago he felt sičk and this sickness made him to have a partial strokě. Which took him to hospital and he was revived, but as God may have it, he's alive. We want to know any of his family members. And unfortunately none of his family members is in China and no way to open his phone to contact any of his family or friends, But we are meant to know that he owns shops in lagos and is from Aba, Abia State. So we are trying to know in case if you know who is this person is. Please send contacts to get to his family. Atleast he is shaking his body and his alive. Please help share this post with this picture here. So that people who knows him can come so that we can take him back. Please share this video, So that it can get to his people, please Save a brother. #save #highlightseveryone Please share to reach his family members

𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 (𝟖) 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐆𝐆: We have so many things in life that we can handle with strong hands & they can withstand pressure and force. There are things that are so fragile in nature & anyone who wants to handle them must do so with every carefulness and tenderness. I saw a truck loaded with cartons of Noddles. Two guys were asked to move the cartons of noddles from the truck into a shop. You need to see the throwing and catching prowess of this two guys. One was in the truck throwing the cartons to the one at the entrance of the shop and he was throwing it into the shop. The one in the truck can throw about 3 cartons at a go and the one in the shop will catch it so well. They can do it like that because the noodles in the cartons are not fragile. They can't handle crates of egg like that when loading from a truck into a shop. It takes extra carefulness and tenderness, if I not ,it will break and that will amount to huge debt and wastages. Friends, there are things we also must carry and handle with extra- carefulness because these things are fragile and once broken, it is not easy to put back together and once some of these things get broken, they can lead to huge damage and destiny wastage. Let me mention 8 of those things you must carry /handle with carefulness as if you are carrying a crate of eggs. 1. 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄: Your name is very important and fragile. There are names that stink in the ears of people simply because, those who bear those names spoilt the names. The way to handle your name with carefulness is to be careful of your doings. Your actions can rubbish your name. A good name can open doors for you & for your children and generations after you. The Bible says ' A good name is better than precious ointment...' ( Ecclesiastes 7:1). When your name is mentioned anywhere, like in your office, at home, church, on social media like Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc. What comes to people's minds? Carry your name with carefulness. It is a huge asset. Read one of the quotes written by Shakespeare. 'Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed'. 2: 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓: Many hearts are broken, shattered, wounded and bitter today. One of the factors responsible for this is because many of this heart owners were careless with their hearts. You can guard your heart from being broken and bitter. Run away from people, and things that are bent on breaking your heart. Carry your heart like a crate of eggs. You need a whole heart before you can be said to be fully whole! 3. 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐖𝐈𝐅𝐄 : When you put too much pressure on your wife, you will 'break' her. ' Likewise ye husbands, dwell with your wife according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel...' ( I Peter 3:7) Handle your wife with carefulness and tenderness. Let tenderness flow in your manliness. Don't be wicked to your wife. Carry her like a Queen. She's stron, powerful and wise, yet, she needs to be protected, cared for and handle like a crate of eggs. Treat her like that. 4: 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄: Your purpose is your destiny. If you don't handle it with utmost carefulness, it can slip off your hands and gaze and get broken. So many things can come like pressure on this 'crate of egg of purpose'. Discouragement, lack of fund, delayed Breakthrough, etc. These are things that may want to come like pressure on your purpose to break it. Don't allow it! Carry it with care. Carry your purpose away from people and things that may want to put pressure on it and break it. 5: 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇: You have only this body as a vehicle that will carry you throughout your journey of destiny in this life. Handle your health with carefulness. No matter how big your vision is, once you are dead, nobody can really run the vision like you! Fight for your health. Avoid things that can destroy your health. Wealth is useless when your health becomes useless. Don't kill yourself before your time. Do your best to stay alive. We still need you here. Don't use your fork and your spoon to dig your grave. Watch what you eat. Always pray for divine immunization against sickness and diseases. 6. 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐄.: So many people handle their marriage like a carton of noddles. Let me remind you sir/ma. Your marriage is fragile. Handle it like a crate of egg. It must not break! A broken marriage is not easily put back together, because, when a marriage breaks, many things get broken with it. Husband and wife, please, carry your marriage like an egg. It must not break! 7: 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒. : Your worth is attached to your words. Be careful with words. Once broken, you can't gather it up again. Many people are careless with their words. They speak violently. They make empty promises and break it. Some say things they later wish they never said. Guard your words. Be careful with it. 8: 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘: Those who are running up and down to fulfill destiny here on earth without thinking of their eternity are not wise! Hear what the Bible says ' Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, they would have considered their latter end! ( Duet 32:29). Friends, the matter of eternity is not something you should handle with levity. Think about where you will spend eternity. You will die one day. I will also die one day. All that we are and have in this world are vanity upon vanity. Take the matter of your end very serious. Stop living carelessly as if you have extra life. Think about eternity. Don't live for the pleasure of this present moment alone. If you miss heaven, you will cry! I believe someone here is blessed with this. You can share it to bless others. (don't plagiarize it ) Thanks for reading.

It's dangerous to have jealous people around you. They see you as a competition while you see them as family or friends.

*27 WAYS TO BUILD A HAPPY AND LONG LASTING MARRIAGE 👩🧑💖* Marriage is a beautiful and fulfilling relationship that requires commitment, love, and sacrifice. No matter what culture you belong to, what religion you believe, what society, level of wealth, or era you live in – one thing common to all people is that they want to be "happy", especially in their marriages. What Should you do? 1. Love the person you married, not the person you hoped you married. Accept your spouse totally. You cannot love a man/woman you do not accept. Stop comparing your spouse with anyone, he or she can never be somebody else. Until you accept your spouse, you can't get the best out of your marriage 2. Understand each other. No marriage succeeds without understanding. Learn to know one another as best as you can. Understand you are not the same and may never be. Respect that you are both individuals. Get to know each other strengths and weaknesses. Strengthen each other's weaknesses. 3. Be quick to forgive and quicker to apologize. Love forgives. Learn to accept apology. Freely forgive your spouse’s past, present and future offenses. Never refer to his/her past mistakes. Never go to bed with anger or unsettled quarrel. Marriage is two forgivers living together. 4. Ask your spouse, "What can I do for you today?" every single day. 5. Never talk bad about your spouse to other people. Protect him or her and always keep his or her name safe. Fight for each other, not with each other. 6. Have lots of s*x. Enjoy S*x with your spouse. Never withhold s*x as a punishment. 7. Keep the word "divorce" out of your vocabulary. Remember your vows. Review them on a regular basis. 8. Provide for the needs of your spouse and children. Never be stingy to your spouse. Care for his/her needs. Be generous to him/her. Pay your children’s school fees promptly and regularly. Marriage is not 50/50. It's 100/100. Give yourself entirely, and don't hold back. Men, Be sensitive to your wife’s needs. Spend money to beautify her. 9. Be faithful to your spouse. Being unfaithful is the easiest way to completely ruin your marriage. Adultery kills. 10. Understand and learn each other's love language. Either it can be words, gifts, touch, actions, etc. If it is words, then frequently tell your spouse you love and appreciate him/ her. If it is action: regularly do things that they appreciate: either take the garbage out, wash the dishes, cook the food, wash the car, etc Spoil each other. Keep track of the things your spouse loves and buy them for him or her. 11. Communication is the key to a relationship. Talk like friends and lovers. Don’t make your spouse guess what you are thinking or feeling. Don't expect him/her to read your mind. You should feel free to discuss all things without fear. 12. Always listen attentively to your spouse. Switch off your phone or television, shut down your computer or iPad and newspapers, books and magazine should be closed. The greatest communication skill you can develop is the listening skill. Be quiet and patient while he/she is speaking, when he/she is done, you can express your opinion. Look straight into his/her eyes when he is talking to you or when you’re talking to him. This will make him/her feel that you are interested in what he/she wants to say. 13. Love, respect and courtesy are basic ingredients of happy married life. Give them generously to your spouse. Show your spouse how much you love, care and appreciate him/her regularly. Say, "I love you," every single day. 14. Be honest and show sincere appreciation. Appreciate each other. Show your spouse appreciation for the little things. Be thankful and say so!!! Find something that you appreciate about your spouse and say thank you. 15. Surprise each other with lovely gifts, kiss and s*x. Kiss passionately. Hold hands. Cuddle. Make physical affection a priority in your marriage. 16. Make quality time for each other. Keep dating each other. Put your marriage and spouse before your children. Play together. Never lose your sense of humor. Make your spouse your best friend. 17. Share everything...no secrets between you. Be open with your spouse. 18. Be polite and courteous to each other. Saying thank you, please and I am sorry. 19. Get rid of bad habits. Don’t do those things your spouse hates. Don’t do things that hurt him/her. Develop a godly character. Don’t create a hostile environment for your spouse. Focus on making your spouse happy. The best way to improve your relationship is to improve yourself. 20. Always be honest to your partner. Lying never gets you anywhere 21. Aim to do something at least once per week together. It does not matter what, even if it is to eat together, bath together, watch movies together, read books together and share light conversation 22. Do NOT look at other marriages and covet. No marriage is prefect. Remember, the grass is not greener on the other side. You will still have to maintain, mow and weed that side too! 23. Work at your marriage. If you ever lack motivation for your marriage and feel like the flame has gone dead. Just try to imagine yourself without your spouse. Talk to anyone who has lost their soul mate and they'll tell you that they will give anything to have back that special someone. Remember, it is your marriage and you have come this far. Make the best of it. Pledge to yourself that you will do your part and try your best. Remember that you chose your spouse for forever. 24. All issues need to have a solution and be resolved at the time of the conversation. Finish what you start otherwise things just hang in the balance,which leads to future problems. 25. Don't make mountains out of mole hills. Don't waste your time fighting over little things. It's not worth it. Let small things go. 26. Don't broadcast your problems to everyone else. If you need to talk to someone about it, other than your spouse, get a therapist. 27. Above all: Serve God together, Pray together & Pray for one another. Pray for your spouse daily in your personal prayers. Be specific. Talk to God about his or her challenges and trials, and ask Him what you can do to be a better spouse. You will not fail in your marriage in Jesus name Kindly share..

Good morning 🌞 friends and acquaintances ✌️

Happy Sunday to all friends and well wishes, make ths Sunday be a wonderful and blessed day in us

As long as you walk with the Holy Spirit you can never be a failure. Celebrate friends and happy weekend.

Never dare to defy God!! I repeat, NEVER DARE TO DEFY GOD!!! The most recent, Brazil defied God, by imitating the status of satan who drags Jesus Christ on the ground with stumps. Today, a disaster has befallen Brazil unlike any other in the 21st century; The owner of the Titanic ⛵️ said: "Even God can't sink this ship′′ and you know what happened? The ship ⛵ sank shortly after. Marilyn Monroe said: "I don't need JESUS", 3 days later she was found dead. A mother told her daughter: "God be with you". Ironically, the daughter replied: "there is no room in the car except in the trunk". On their journey there was an accident where all the people inside the car died but the trunk remained intact, the egg crates in the truck none were broken. A dad told his son, "may God protect you", and the son said, "my friends will protect me more than God", while he was returning from work, a stray bullet killed him where the friends looked at him but could not protect him. A boy went to a church and started urinating on the cross saying "there is no GOD", the next day he lost his arms and confessed the desecration. A man received this message and deleted it saying what!! "God does not exist", the man suffered for 8 years before he died, another man received this message and shared it to as many people as possible, he was promoted in his job. GOD opens doors that no one can close through this message. And if you don't need GOD, ignore this message and don't spread it... The message is meant to go around the world. The president of Argentina received it and ignored it, after 8 days his son died. This message is sacred and miraculous. Share it to 5 different WhatsApp groups. Don't ignore !!! Don't break it.!!! Is GOD first in your life? If so, leave what you are doing and share it now in 5 different WhatsApp groups. COPYED. I have asked God (through prayers) to bless you with the desires of your heart according to his will if you end this message to others if necessary.