Category It takes a village series

The marriage series – Parenting

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I’ve always had an issue with people who mention that they are not ready for the ‘marriage thing’, while being comfortable with having a child or more, sometimes with more than one partner.We really do live in a reverse (seemingly…

The marriage series – Arranged marriage

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Arranged marriage, those two words can provoke differing emotions, along with raised eyebrows.Depending on where you are in the world and your cultural background, arranged marriage can be looked at with a sense of excitement and expectancy or dread and…

The marriage series – Patriarchal naming

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Identity means a lot to ‘most’ people.It’s ‘usually’ a given that most balanced, rational and relational people like to know where they are coming from and who the relatives are, in their biological ancestral paternal & maternal family lines. There…

Women only

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Greetings ladies.I hope you are well.I know women can be inquisitive and ‘usually’ read more than men; which would mean, you may have already read my ‘Just for men’ post.As with the men on SM, especially Twitter, it’s my observation…

Just for men

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Greetings men.SM can be frustrating at times because I see so many cries for help from men, especially on Twitter.Some are direct and honest tweets but the rest are hidden within both the outrageous and the supposedly “funny” tweets.I also…

Enemies of the Village – Relatives, frienemies and strangers with agendas

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IN CONTEXT Hopefully, you would have already read both ‘part 1’ and ‘part 2’ of the ‘It takes a village’ posts.Reading other posts, such as ‘It’s important to remember’ and ‘Love and colour’, are also relevant, as they give additional…

Why it takes a village – (Part 2 of 2)

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In part one, I covered some of our personal experiences and history.We take our parental role seriously and we understand that effective parenting and leadership, is about influence and motivation to positive action.Life has those unknown external elements which are…

Why it takes a village – helping young adults to build good long-term relationships & marriage (Pt 1 of 2)

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Before the obvious educational establishments, before the rise of the Internet Search Engines, books and libraries were used to increase humankind’s knowledge.Before that, it was word of mouth from family members and community elders, along with cave and wall paintings.Books…

Family

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We’re born into one, it’s where God first puts us and (barring unforeseen difficult circumstances beyond our control) it’s where we stay until we mature and decide to have our own, at which point our family priorities shift.It should be…

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