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"So because "So because they want experience, I should throw myself to just anybody?" Amaka would reply, laughing.

Ifunanya would roll her eyes. "You’ll see love one day. When it hits you, all this grammar will disappear."

Amaka believed in love. Real love. The one where a man treats you like you matter. The one where you feel safe, respected, and seen. She believed in saving herself for a man who would honor her.

She didn’t know that love could also be the thing that would destroy her.

It started on an ordinary Tuesday evening.

She had just closed from work and was walking to the bus stop near Allen Avenue. A tall man in a clean blue shirt and black trousers was walking beside her. He kept glancing at her.

“Excuse me, please,” he said gently. “I’ve been trying to get your attention since you crossed the road. My name is Jide.”

She looked at him. He had kind eyes. There was something gentle about him.

“I’m Amaka,” she said cautiously.

He smiled. “Nice name. I don’t want to disturb you, but can I get your number? I’d love to talk to you sometime.”

She hesitated. Then gave it to him.

That single moment changed her entire life.

Jide was different.

He called every day. Sent sweet good morning and good night texts. He would surprise her with lunch, send money for her mum's birthday, and once paid her bike fare when she got stuck in traffic on her way to church.

“I’ve never met a woman like you,” he often told her. “You’re different. You have peace around you.”

When she told him she was a virgin, he was quiet for a moment, then smiled. “That’s beautiful. It makes me respect you even more.”

She felt safe.

He introduced her to his friends. They treated her like royalty.

He took her to his apartment in Lekki and never touched her without permission.

“I love you, Amaka,” he said one night as they watched a movie. “I want to build a future with you.”

Her heart danced.

It happened on their three-month anniversary.

They had dinner. He played soft music.
PART 2 want experience, I should throw myself to just anybody?" Amaka would reply, laughing.

Ifunanya would roll her eyes. "You’ll see love one day. When it hits you, all this grammar will disappear."

Amaka believed in love. Real love. The one where a man treats you like you matter. The one where you feel safe, respected, and seen. She believed in saving herself for a man who would honor her.

She didn’t know that love could also be the thing that would destroy her.

It started on an ordinary Tuesday evening.

She had just closed from work and was walking to the bus stop near Allen Avenue. A tall man in a clean blue shirt and black trousers was walking beside her. He kept glancing at her.

“Excuse me, please,” he said gently. “I’ve been trying to get your attention since you crossed the road. My name is Jide.”

She looked at him. He had kind eyes. There was something gentle about him.

“I’m Amaka,” she said cautiously.

He smiled. “Nice name. I don’t want to disturb you, but can I get your number? I’d love to talk to you sometime.”

She hesitated. Then gave it to him.

That single moment changed her entire life.

Jide was different.

He called every day. Sent sweet good morning and good night texts. He would surprise her with lunch, send money for her mum's birthday, and once paid her bike fare when she got stuck in traffic on her way to church.

“I’ve never met a woman like you,” he often told her. “You’re different. You have peace around you.”

When she told him she was a virgin, he was quiet for a moment, then smiled. “That’s beautiful. It makes me respect you even more.”

She felt safe.

He introduced her to his friends. They treated her like royalty.

He took her to his apartment in Lekki and never touched her without permission.

“I love you, Amaka,” he said one night as they watched a movie. “I want to build a future with you.”

Her heart danced.

It happened on their three-month anniversary.

They had dinner. He played soft music.
PART 2

*What to Have Before You Become a Wife *

Dear Single Lady, i know you're Preparing for a beautiful future, and marriage is one of those beautiful journey of life you desire.

But before stepping into it, it's important you prepare— not just with wedding plans, but with the right mindset, habits, and heart. Wedding is not marriage, and marriage is not a day experience.

So before you become a wife; Have

1. A Strong Relationship with Yourself

Know who you are. Understand your values, your dreams, and your emotions.

Self-love and self-respect lay the foundation for a healthy relationship with someone else.

Don't expect a man to fully love and respect you when you don't love and respect yourself or you're still confused about yourself.

Know what you can do and what you can't do. The flaws you can manage in a man, and the toxic habits you can't endure.

2. Emotional Maturity

Can you handle disagreements without losing control? Can you forgive, communicate, and listen to your man with love?

In as much as you're willing to be a submissive wife, understand that You won't always agree with your husband.
There will be days of misunderstanding. There will days where you don't feel like talking to him. And there will be days when you'll look at him with a bombastic side eyes and feel like shouting ontop of your voice— at him. So start learning Conflict Resolution Skills.

Learn Good Communication Skills too.

Marriage requires honest, gentle, and respectful conversations. So you must Learn how to address a man.

Start Practicing how to express yourself clearly and calmly, even when things get tough.

Develop good manner of approach and speech. Learn how to resolve issues with calmness and respect instead of anger or silence.

A peaceful home is not a home without problems, it's a home where problems are handled with wisdom.

3. Financial Wisdom

You don't need to be rich, but it's wise you learn how to manage money, budget, save, and spend wisely. Marriage involves sharing responsibilities, and finances are a big part of that.

You may not have money in your pocket now, but have a brain that can generate millions. Don't be empty physically and mentally.

Imagine you meet a man who's ready to help you grow, what do you have that he can use to establish you

Don't wait for a man to come into your life and start building your from scratch. Have something— physically or mentally, or both.

Don't sit down lazying around— believing you'll get any man or thing you want because you're beautiful. Your power doesn't lie in your beauty/body— it lies in your BRAIN. Feed your brain!

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4. A Clear Vision and Purpose for Life

What kind of life do you want to build? What are your priorities— faith, career, children, purpose?

Do you want to raise worldly children or Godly children? Do you want a marriage centered in Christ or Crisis? Do you want to be a career wife or a house wife?

It's very important to know where you're headed in life so you can choose a man who shares and supports that vision.

Don't be the type of lady who just want to want to birth kid, eat and sleep.

If all you're concerned about as a lady is trending things and fashion, you may get frustrated when you enter marriage and your expectations are not been met.

Luxuries are good, but have a vision and a purpose that can birth impacts. Impacts generates money, and money brings comfort.


5. Sound Marital Knowledge

You want to get married without knowing anything about marriage?

In as much as there will be some shocking discoveries you'll experience inside marriage, you still have to equip yourself well to some extent.

You don't prepare for battle in the battlefield, you prepare ahead of it.

You want marriage. You want to answer a 'wife' . You want to be a mother. But you haven't read upto 5 positive books that teaches about healthy marriage, becoming a wife of value, and a fulfilled mother. You don't even study God's standard for marriage— your bible.

All you do is to go on dates, then come back home and watch movies. Keep playing

Even when you prepare yourself, the practical aspect of marriage will still give you some shocks. Now imagine what will happen if you don't equip yourself at all ?

Show me a man who is going for war without arming himself, and I'll show you a man who has made up his mind to be k!!led even before he gets to the warfront.

Marriage is not a play. Get the right Knowledge as much as you can.

6. Healing from Past Wounds

Unresolved pain from your past relationships or childhood can cause problems later in your marriage.

Please Take time to heal, forgive, and let go of your past relationship hurts before planning of getting married.

Don't carry what your Ex did to you into marriage and start pun!shing your husband with it. You may de$tɍoy your marriage.

Find peace first. A peaceful heart makes room for love to grow.

7. The Right Community

Surround yourself with wise women— married, single, and older— who can guide you, pray with you, and give sound advice. You'll need them before and after marriage.

Stay away from feminist if you truly want to enjoy your marriage.

Anyone who advises you to equal yourself to your man doesn't mean well for you. Avoid them.


8. A Lifestyle of Responsibility

Can you take care of your home, your health, your work, and your spiritual life without being pushed?

Marriage doesn't magically make people responsible, you carry your habits into it and it amplifies them.
Start building them now— the right habits.

Start learning how to cook, keep the home neat, take care of kids.

9. Hobbies and Passions

In preparing to become a wife, You have to learn to trust God's timing. But while you wait, grow.

Don't lose yourself because you're waiting for marriage. Explore your talents, pursue passions, build a meaningful life outside of your relationship. Work on yourself, build your dreams, and enjoy your season.

When you're a well-rounded woman, you'll bring joy, depth, and beauty into your home.

10. A Prayer Life

Marriage will challenge your emotions, your faith, your patience, and your strength— and that's why you must start now to build your relationship with God.

A praying woman builds her home in wisdom. So Start now! Make prayer your anchor, not your backup plan.

A kneeling woman is a winning woman!


Dear unmarried lady, Marriage won't fix your life, it will add to it. So build a life you love— then share it with a man who truly values it.

Building yourself means you don't expect your man to complete you— you're already whole.

So as a single lady, you must understand that becoming a wife is not just about finding the right man, it's about becoming the right woman.

A wife is not just a title, it's a calling, and preparation is key.

Don't just sit and be waiting to be chosen— Prepare yourself too to choose wisely, to love deeply, and to thrive in your marriage, not just survive in it.

Marriage is meant to be ENJOYED , not to be ENDURED .

You are worth the wait. PEACE!

*27 WAYS TO BUILD A HAPPY AND LONG LASTING MARRIAGE *

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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

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He slēpt with hēr right in fr0nt of mē, without minding my presence. And I was still in my wedding gown when all these were happening. But what I did next shocked them. I didn't say anything o. I just went and carried...
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MY HUSBAND BROUGHT ANOTHER WOMAN HOME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT

Chapter 1

They said marriage changes a woman.

They didn’t say it would happen in one night.

The hotel room was cold—too cold for comfort, too quiet for celebration. My wedding dress clung to my skin, the lace already itchy. My hands smelled of fried rice, perfume, and sweat. I had waited over an hour, seated on the edge of the hotel bed, legs pressed together, heart trembling like a candle in wind.

Tonight was supposed to be the beginning.

My beginning.

But Chuka wasn’t picking his calls.

I dialed again.

Switched off.

I dropped the phone. Picked it again. Put it down. Repeated it like prayer.

A knock came at the door.

Not hurried. Not soft. Just... calm.

I jumped to my feet and smoothed the dress even though it was crumpled from sitting. I checked the mirror one last time. My lipstick was fading, but I still looked like a bride.

I opened the door with a smile I forced.

And then I froze.

Chuka stood there, yes.

But he wasn’t alone.

There was a woman beside him.

Tall. Beautiful. Red lips, long hair. Dressed in white silk like she belonged in perfume commercials. Like she belonged beside him.

She didn’t look surprised to see me.

She looked... bored.

“Ezinne,” Chuka said. “Let’s go inside.”

I stepped back slowly, eyes darting between both of them. “Who is she?”

“She’s with me.”

I stared at him. “With you? As in?”

“She stays with me.”

My smile died.

“Tonight?”

“Every night.”

The woman walked past me like it was her wedding suite. Like she’d been here before. She kicked off her heels, sat on the bed, and unzipped her purse. Comfortable. Confident.

“Chuka,” I whispered, feeling my chest tighten. “I don’t understand.”

He shut the door behind him. “She’s part of this marriage. That’s how things work. You’re the wife. She’s... Amaka.”

Amaka.

Her name was Amaka.

I wanted to laugh. Or scream. Or disappear.

“You’re joking,” I said.

“No, I’m not.” His voice didn’t rise. It didn’t shake. It was the same tone he used when he ordered fried rice with no pepper. “If you can’t accept that, you can leave.”

The words didn’t make sense.

I didn’t move.

I just stood there.

My veil slipped to the floor.

Amaka picked it up, looked at me, and said with a small smile, “You’ll get used to it.”

I ran.

Out the door.

Down the hall.

No slippers, no bag.

Just my legs, my wedding dress, and a sound in my throat I couldn’t name.

Outside, the night air hit my skin like slap. I sat on the stairs behind the building and cried. Not loud. Just small, broken sobs that nobody would hear. My phone vibrated in my hand.

It was my mother.

I picked.

“Mama…”

She didn’t let me finish.

“Ezinne, please don’t disgrace us.”

I blinked. “What?”

“You’re married now. Endure. At least he married you. At least you’re not like some girls jumping from one man to another.”

I held the phone away from my ear.

I couldn’t breathe.

I had just been replaced—in my own marriage. And my mother called it endurance.

The line went dead.

I looked up at the sky. The stars were watching.

God was watching.

And I whispered, “Why me?”

But the night gave no answer.

Only the wind.

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Prologue

The ballroom went completely silent. Not the kind of quiet that came when people paused their conversations, but the horrible kind where everyone stopped breathing at the same time.

Thousands of wolves stared at me like I was some kind of freak show. The fancy chandeliers hanging from the ceiling made everything look golden and beautiful, but all I felt was darkness eating me alive from the inside.

I stood there in my simple sundress. The dress my mother had sewn for me with love, hoping I would find love and acceptance from my fated mate today.

I thought it would make me pretty. I thought it would make me good enough. I thought maybe, just maybe, someone could love a girl like me. A girl without a wolf.

But now the dress felt like a joke. Like I was wearing a costume that screamed how ****** I was for believing in happy endings.

Alpha Richard Brown stood in front of me. He was tall and strong and everything an Alpha should be.

Just some minutes ago, he had looked at me from across this same ballroom. His beautiful eyes had made my heart race with hope.

For one perfect moment, I thought maybe the Moon Goddess had finally smiled on me.

Now those same eyes looked at me like I was garbage.

“You?” His voice was loud enough for everyone to hear. He wanted them all to witness this. “You think you’re good enough to be my Luna? You think you can stand beside me and lead my pack? You think someone like you deserves to carry an Alpha’s blood?”

People started laughing. Soft giggles at first, then louder and meaner. I heard my own pack members laughing too.

These were people who had watched me grow up. The people who bullied me, who looked down on me even though I was the beta’s daughter.

“I—” I tried to speak, but my throat felt like it was full of broken glass. I had practiced what I would say to him. I had stood in front of my bedroom mirror and rehearsed words of love. But now I could barely remember how to talk.

“Look at yourself,” Richard said, his voice getting quieter, but somehow everyone still heard him perfectly. “Eighteen years old and you still don’t have a wolf. You’re empty inside. What could you possibly give me? What could you offer my pack except weakness?”

His words were cruel, and my knees wanted to give out. My hands started shaking. Someone in the crowd whispered, “Poor thing.”

“The Moon Goddess marked you as broken,” Richard kept going. “You have no wolf. No strength. No purpose except to show everyone else what failure looks like. Did you really think I would lower myself to mate with something so incomplete?”

Incomplete. That word echoed in my head like a bell ringing over and over. It wasn’t just mean. It was true.

I was incomplete. I was the girl who couldn’t shift when everyone else ran free under the full moon. I was the daughter who brought shame to her family. I was the pack member who didn’t really belong anywhere.

“I thought—” I whispered.

“You thought wrong.” He cut me off, fast and final. “I, Alpha Richard Brown of the Silver Moon Pack, officially reject you, Jane Biller, as my mate. You have no claim to my heart, my pack, or my future. You are nothing. To me. To my pack. To the Moon Goddess herself.”

When he said those formal rejection words, something inside my chest snapped. It felt like lightning striking me from the inside. I gasped out loud, and the sound echoed through the silent room.

“I always knew she was cursed...” someone said among the cowards.

“Poor Alpha Richard, having to deal with that...”

“Her poor parents, how embarrassing...”

“What was she thinking?”

“To think the beta’s only child is this useless.”

I couldn’t stand it. I had never thought I could be humiliated like this. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my father, the beta, standing tall and proud beside our Alpha.

“Father,” I whispered, reaching out for the one person who should protect me. But when I looked into his eyes, what I saw there stopped my heart cold.

I had always known he didn’t love me the way he should. I had always felt his disappointment. But this? This was something else entirely.

The hatred burning in his gaze was so deep, so complete, that I realized I had never truly understood how much he despised my very existence.

“Do you think I will offer you my helping hand, Jane? Stop this pathetic display—you’re humiliating yourself,” he snapped. “Even as your father, I regret the day you were born.”

I couldn’t breathe. My hand went to my chest. It hurt so much. How could my own father say this to me?

He wasn’t done hurting me. His face grew meaner.

“If I could erase you from existence, I would do it without hesitation. You’re nothing but a stain on this family’s name—worthless garbage that I’m ashamed to call my own.”

My world fell apart. My legs felt weak. His words kept playing in my head. Trash. Garbage. Nothing.

“Ha!” I made a sound that was part laugh, part cry, and part scream. My hands shook as I tried to stop the tears.

But the more I tried not to cry, the more my body shook. The crazy laugh kept coming out because I didn’t know what else to do. What did you do when the person who should love you most told you that you were nothing?

“You have said well, Beta,” my rejected mate said, nodding like he agreed with every cruel word. “No one could accept a daughter like that. If I were the one, I would also be disappointed.”

Now it wasn’t just my father—it was him too. The man I thought I would spend my life with now stood there, backing up my father’s hate.

Two people who were supposed to love me, protect me, care for me. Instead, they had teamed up to tear me down.

I felt like I was drowning. Like I couldn’t get air into my lungs. How had I become so alone? How had the two most important men in my life decided I was worth nothing?

“I know no one can accept her as a mate,” my father said. People around us gasped and whispered. “What I didn’t imagine was that she could be matched with someone as powerful as you. The goddess must be blind.”

That was it. That was the final blow that broke me completely. My father had just told everyone—the whole pack—that I was so worthless that even the goddess had made a mistake. The whispers grew louder. I could feel everyone’s eyes on me, judging me, agreeing with him.

I couldn’t take it anymore. Everyone hated me. No one wanted me to exist. No one thought I deserved to be here, to be alive, to be anything.

My feet moved before my brain caught up. I turned around fast, pushing past people who stepped back like I might dirty them just by touching them. I had to get out of there. I had to leave this hell before it killed me.

As I reached for the handles, I heard Richard talking to the crowd like I was already gone:

“Let this be a lesson to everyone. The Moon Goddess doesn’t make mistakes. Some people are born to lead. Others...” He paused for dramatic effect. “Others are born to remind us why being strong matters.”

The doors slammed shut behind me. The sound was like thunder. It didn’t just shut out the ballroom. It shut out everything I had ever known. Everyone I had ever loved. Every dream I had ever dared to dream.

I stood alone in the fancy entrance hall. My reflection stared back at me from the shiny walls. I looked like a broken girl in a beautiful dress.

The silence here was different from the ballroom. This was the silence of being completely alone. Of being abandoned.

I walked out into the cold night air. I knew my wolf slumbered, waiting for the storm that would wake her— and when she rose, the world would tremble.

I knew that I would come back to this place years later. Not as the broken girl begging for scraps of love, but as a force of nature that would make them all remember why they should have treasured what they threw away so carelessly.

All I knew was the taste of tears and the weight of being rejected. The sound of my own footsteps echoed as I walked away from everything I used to be and toward everything I would become.

Behind me, the music started again. The dancing continued. The party went on like I had never existed at all.

But I did exist.

And someday, they would all remember my name, and I would make sure they paid.

If you’re someone who deeply self-reflects, you need to be very aware of something crucial for which most people are not aware of., ... Most people project!

This is an incredibly important awareness to cultivate because you might mistakenly self-reflect on their projections, thinking that they, too, are engaging in honest introspection.

You can easily get lost in this confusing loop of self-questioning, often based on people gaslighting you or subtly inducing self-doubt, simply because they are unwilling or unable to turn the mirror toward themselves.

So, before you consider what someone else says to you about yourself, first of all, be absolutely sure that it comes from a person who is not only able to take accountability for themselves, but is also genuinely in the state of mind of trying to understand you, rather than judge.

Understand that many people are not willing to confront their own flaws or turn the mirror to themselves. They don't care if they induce self-doubt and mental fog in you, as long as it helps them get away from their own wrong-doing. Not to forget those who know you are someone who self-reflects, and are simply using that very quality against you to manipulate you.

Self-awareness is beautiful, a powerful tool for personal growth. But that being said, external awareness—awareness of others' patterns and intentions—is just as important, if not more so, in order not to fall into other people's toxic traps. This commitment to truth, even when uncomfortable, allows you to live with unfiltered emotions and clarity.

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