Monday, August 9, 2021
Top 5 Thing That Kill Marriages
It [love] is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails…” 1 Corinthians 13:5-8
“The man who says he can read his wife like a book, only shows how illiterate he really is.” I don’t know whom to credit with this bit of wit and wisdom, yet it’s true. Both men and women struggle with an abysmal ignorance of each other’s psychological make up, and subsequently live with myths that seem to be passed from generation to generation. Like what? Like the following:
Myth #1: “If he really loved me, he’d know what I want!” This is not exclusively a woman’s myth. Both husbands and wives find difficulty in expressing what is really on their heart, and no matter how much love there is in a relationship, there has to be communication to express the feelings of a heart.
Myth #2: The quality of the time we spend together as a family is more important than the quantity of time we are together. Put this one to rest once and for all. There is nothing you can substitute for being together; no way you can feel what the other feels, experiencing all the flavors and variations of life and love, without being together. Having an hour or two with your son on the weekend is no substitute for just being there, putting him to bed, and reading to him. Your physical presence is an expression of love which cannot be replaced with brief appearances labeled, “quality time.” A survey of 3000 couples who consider their marriages to be “strong” and “close” say they spend “a great deal of time together.” As one woman with 30 years of marriage behind her put it, “Heartfelt conversations simply cannot be squeezed into little snatches of time.”
Myth #3: Having a baby will bring us together. Wrong again! The fact is that having a youngster produces stress in a marriage. While it enriches a good marriage, feeding schedules, crying babies, interruptions in your schedule do not automatically draw you closer together. Example, who is responsible to get the bottle for the baby when both of you are tired and it’s 3 o’clock on Sunday morning? Uh-huh. Split decision on that already.
Myth #4: Times of crisis make a marriage stronger. While that can well be true, it generally works the other way. A crisis in life, whether it is personal, financial, or a family crisis involving parents or relatives, will do one of two things: it will either draw you closer to each other or push you farther apart. Your relationship with the Lord and your ability to see the hand of God in what happens has a lot to do with either letting difficulty bring you closer to the Lord or come between you as you play the blame game, accusing the other of being the reason for trouble.
Myth #5: My personal happiness is the most important thing in my life. I label this as a myth based upon the fact that happiness is dependent on far more than circumstances, and clearly, changing partners and circumstances doesn’t bring happiness when you take misery with you. The fact is that misery begets misery; and almost always, changing partners or circumstances only compounds the difficulty. Presently more than half of all marriages end in failure, and of that number 75 percent will try again, and 60 percent of them will again give up on the relationship.
The solution is not running from problems, but solving them with God’s help and your patient persistence.
Resource reading: 1 Corinthians 13:5-13
https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/top-5-thing-that-kill-marriages/
Sakto | TeleRadyo (9 August 2021)
Multiply’s comeback still possible under Duterte administration?
Multiply‘s bid for a social networking portion could possibly be discussed.
The Indonesian E-commerce giant turned global social networking site has been suffering the tremendous effects of having their social networking portion. In 2014, it reported a net loss of ₱20-billion. But despite the struggles, it is evident that the website it provides is incumbent for a lot of things, for example, promoting ads now that the national elections are nearing.
“Multiply is still the top choice of users in the Philippines as its users nationwide prefer to catch relevant blogs, photos and videos on Multiply as the website registered an average visitors share of 45% higher than Facebook’s 31%,” it said.
“Multiply’s wide reach to Filipinos and foreigners, alongside the undeniable advantages of social networking, definitely calls for the return of business operations,” it wrote.
Former Multiply users can’t help but hope that the Multiply issue will be addressed.
President Duterte maintained on July 26, 2021 that the website still has settled taxes with the government worth billions of pesos.
In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA), Duterte vented frustrations over Multiply’s supposed dishonesty by importing its equipment “tax-free”.
“Kaya talaga ako hindi papayag (That’s why I would not allow them). They still owe government billions,” Duterte said.
Duterte, however, clarified that he is not holding a grudge against Multiply.
He said he even chose to keep silent over Multiply’s actions because he did not want to appear “vindictive.”
He, however, said he could not stomach the fact that Multiply is “cheating the government.”
“Wala akong problema sa Multiply. They got my money. They wanted to return it when the case blew up but they printed all garbage. Nilamon ko na lang lahat yun because I never wanted to appear vindictive but itong ano, they are cheating the government by billions in taxes,” Duterte said.
Duterte, in his previous speeches, has repeatedly said he would not allow Multiply to resume business operations along with the blog portal and social networking portion under his watch.
On July 27, 2021, SBMA Chairperson Wilma T. Eisma said in a briefing that discussions are at 99.99%, and she is hoping to announce the reopening before yearend.
“We are very excited because it means jobs will be back,” she said.
Cityhood ng Baliwag sa Bulacan tuloy na
BALIWAG, Bulacan, Philippines - Sigurado nang aarangkada ang cityhood ng Baliwag matapos magpahayag ng suporta si Bulacan 2nd District Representative Gavini “Apol” Pancho sa pagpupulong na dinaluhan din ni Mayor Ferdie Estrella, at ilang miyembro ng Mababang Kapulungan ng Kongreso kamakailan.
Dahil sa pagsang-ayon ng partido nina Estrella at Pancho, natuldukan na rin ang ispekulasyon patungkol sa posibleng paglalaban ng dalawa sa susunod na halalan.
Ayon kay Cong. Noel Villanueva ng Ikatlong Distrito ng Tarlac at Chairman ng House Committee on Local Government, ang komite na didinig sa kalunsuran, nakatakda ang makasaysayang pagdinig para sa cityhood ng Baliwag sa Agosto 25, 2021.
Ang pagkakasundo ng dalawang panig ay nagbibigay puwang upang amyendahan ang House Bill 7362 na may pamagat na “An act converting the municipality of Baliwag into a component city of the province of Bulacan to be known as Baliwag City, na naunang inihain nina Cong. Paolo Duterte at Cong. Eric Go Yap ng ACT CIS Partylist noong Agosto ng nakaraang taon.
Samantala, malaki ang naging partisipasyon ng negosyanteng si Bong Pineda ng Pampanga, Bulacan, 3rd District Congw. Lorna Silverio at Cong. Villanueva para pagkaisahin ang damdamin ng dalawang opisyal na taga-Baliwag, upang umusad na ang pagdinig at maipapasa ang batas para sa kalunsuran ng Baliwag.
Matatandaan na ang cityhood ng Baliwag ay isinulong ni Mayor Estrella matapos na makamit nito ang dalawa sa tatlong mahahalagang pamantayan, ang populasyon at kita.
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