How often do you see us celebrate wining marriages on the pages of our magazines? We talk more about the marriages heading for divorce and create so much fear in the minds of the younger generation as if it is almost impossible to get it right in this generation.

Before I got married, I...

I am amazed at the quest of many couples to copy and outdo Hollywood when it comes to the red carpet lifestyle as well as marriage. We copy both the good, the bad and the ugly such that we live in deception, thinking marital break-up is also one of the ways to cement our status as a celebrity.

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Her father was a senator while his father was a minister and they have been business associates for two decades. Bob and Risky are two silver spoons who had their education outside the country. Their parents felt they should take their relationship further by arranging for their children to be...

Someone once asked me: "Praise how can God speak to you about your choice of spouse and you still go through a troubled marriage?" I smiled and responded: "Have you not read that you have to work out your salvation with fear and trembling?" But someone is wondering why people play the religious...

Sis Janet and Bro Rasaq met at a spiritual conference and he felt ‘led’ to propose to her based on ‘what the spirit told him’. There was no history of friendship or a quest to seek to understand each other.

Now they have been married for 4years and constantly fight...

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ACCIDENTAL SPOUSE – 19– RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

The best place to stop an intruder is at the gate and not when you have served him dinner inside your bedroom

One of my mentors once told me that there are two ways to kill a lion – either you...

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ACCIDENTAL SPOUSE – 18– WHO ARE YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO?

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” 
― Thomas Paine

The fourth attribute of accidental spouse is  lack of accountability.

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ACCIDENTAL SPOUSE – 16 – NEVER ASSUME MARRIAGE

I sit over domestic violence cases consistently and one common pattern I have noticed is the unequal yoke of the couples each time we run their beliefs assessment tests. The gap is often too wide that you knew...

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ACCIDENTAL SPOUSE – 15 – THE TRAJECTORY OF ERROR?

I usually would play a game in most of my classes by asking my students to write down something they are so sure of. I’d then ask the class to troubleshoot the belief with them to be sure it was...

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ACCIDENTAL SPOUSE – 14 – WHOSE IDEA ARE YOU?

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are. A subtle kind of murder – Jim Morrison

A few years ago I started to question...