We rolling….

Excited to announce we now have ‘54 Countries’ the book 📖 Your child can now explore all 54 Countries of Africa in one book 📖 Growing up, we never got to learn about where we were from in a positive way. But we can change that now Pre-Order here: https://t.co/z6cj62zJpY

Mikie Sherrill’s radical energy plan will only make New Jersey utility prices go UP UP UP! 📈 On Nov. 4, say NO to Sherrill. She’s more of the same…but WORSE.

looking for someone to edit some footage for me today, need it by 6pm GMT tonight.

If this thread made you pause, smile, or reflect, you’ll love my newsletter. I write stories, lessons, and reminders like these daily: https://t.co/qpnM8Oef1u And if you want to go deeper. Check out my books on love, sacrifice, and partnership:

Love doesn’t flourish in muddled emotions; in polluted water, nothing can thrive. It’s important to empty the glass regularly and refill it with compassion and empathy.

I used to move past problems instead of resolving them. It’s easy to take a step toward peace while skipping the harder steps toward understanding and resolution.

Honesty requires putting someone else above us, even when we don’t know how our confessions will be received. Honesty has hurt me, but it’s never failed me. Transparency solidifies any companionship.

A relationship doesn’t have to be perfect, but it must be honest. The truth doesn’t care about love, so sometimes the truth hurts. Yet, honesty is the backbone that supports all the other elements of companionship; a love without honesty is crippled.

When you are building with someone, the foundation impacts the structure. Secrecy is a breeding ground for regret. For a relationship to know where it’s going, it helps to know where it’s been.

Think about it, the more time you spend with someone, the more you find out about them. What if it’s not the fairy tale you envisioned? Marriage is about peeling away the layers of a person, revealing the raw individual underneath. Every relationship has an origin story.

The comedian James Acaster’s asks a poignant question. He asks: “What if a relationship is just a process of someone finding out that they didn’t like you as much as they thought they would?”

If this thread made you pause, smile, or reflect, you’ll love my newsletter. I write stories, lessons, and reminders like these daily: https://t.co/qpnM8Oef1u And if you want to go deeper. Check out my books on love, sacrifice, and partnership:

That not every victory is worth the battle fought to attain it. You can be right in the wrong way. I still need to find out where my friend ended on December 25th. I’m sure the newlyweds found a suitable compromise and learned a lesson about responsibility.

As a man raised to try and navigate the world by himself, I struggled with compromise. It’s more of a skill than it is a choice. It took time to recognise that my perspective is not the only perspective that matters.

When I still worked full-time in retail, I would beg my wife to come and see me on the weekend, but Sunday was her designated church day, so I only ever got half a weekend of her time.

How do we know what you are painting without the pencil sketches to trace? Your husband wakes up at 5 am for the gym every morning. That’s fine until the sound of his protein shake blending becomes your new alarm clock.

We are so excited about the big picture (weddings living together, honeymoons etc.), and we neglect the small details. They become minor brush strokes on the larger canvas. We forget that without those strokes, there is no final image.

In-laws want to see their daughters on family holidays; partners still have to observe their faith (during Ramadan, my intimacy nosedives). All the rules still apply.

Those responsibilities might one day become yours. Starting a relationship at uni made me realise that relationships flourish inside bubbles. When you have the luxury to float around in love, you almost forget that the rest of the world still exists, but it does.

Responsibility is one of most unpredicatble words in the marital dictionary. Commitmet comes with an expanding and evolving attitude toward responsiblity. You can’t consider a partner without considering their responsibilities. We marry a person and their circumstances.