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Removing Ruto alone won’t help much if UDA still has the majority in Parliament tbh. We also need to be careful who we vote in for those seats cause at the end of the day they’re the ones passing laws and making decisions and if most of them are from the same side they’ll obviously favour their own interests over wananchi.

So my girlfriend and I have been dating for like 3 months although she's a childhood friend, we studied together all of our primary school. Although I can say I know her but I know her as a Friend and not as a partner. So this month job imekua hard and obviously you need to cut on bills and expenses I fit budget not unlike other months.

So yesterday we were talking about money and I asked her what if things don't get better ( obviously I don't want but life is unpredictable) would we still be together? She hesitated and said I don't know.

What surprised me is personally I'll stick with her through thick and thin but her saying she doesn't know made me see her in a different way, like the only time you'll be with me is if things are ok and if that's the case then I don't really want to be with you even if things are good.

What do you think am I right to feel that way or wrong

I am (F) in my mid-late 20s. My spouse is in his early 30s. I did not have a privileged upbringing, but my parents covered all my basic needs; I went through school till uni with their full support, though resources were limited, they managed.

My husband on the other hand, grew up in a rich home. He had more than enough. By the time he was joining uni, his Dad has already bought him his first car😅, when he graduated, it was upgraded. Y’all get the contrasting picture between our upbringing, yeah?

Now fast forward to now when we are married, we really cannot agree on most things financial and it is extremely frustrating. I happen to be more money conscious and save more than him, because I am so used to resources being limited, I just don’t like splurging unnecessarily.

He on the other hand has a taste for the finest things in life 😅. He is always splurging and buying ridiculously expensive things, eg importing designer watches and the like. The worst part is that he is mostly in debt😅 and I noticed he owes a lot of his friends money though he will not come clean about it.

We recently started building a simple home in upcountry and he wants to go for extremely exquisite interior finishes (some of them imported) which in my opinion does not make sense because this is a house we will be sleeping in for at most thrice a year. Why don’t we just use decent but budget friendly finishes?

What bothers me is that both chip in financially to our financial projects and I really feel my money funding his expensive tastes is just waste of my hard earned money.

I feel it could do so much more instead of importing a single 80,000 toilet because “quality”😏

Anyway, I feel I would be so much farther ahead in life I had married someone who grew up the way I did, and sees money the way I see it but here we are😞

So today was meant to be a good day, someone who I know and have worked for had brought work a few weeks ago promised to pay this week. To be fair he's even brought one client who ended being a good friend so even when he's difficult to deal with and varnishes when its time to pay only to show up after months when he needs my service again. I try to accommodate him. But today was different, had been waiting for the money since yesterday. I knew it would pay up fuliza, buy tokens and some supply to feed my kid and I for the week as I do what I do, try to keep us afloat. But I call, no response, text no response, I finally face him and tell him to never come to me for services again as this isn’t the first time he's doing this and delete his number. What hurts me though is I had to punish my child to go to bed without eating, because I need the little thats left to be what he take for school tomorrow. Schools have resume, he can't go empty to school. The fact that I had to punish my own child because someone let me down while I had rightly earned it has me feeling so much pain in my soul.

There's a special place in hell for people to take hard earned money and leave others to suffer. And still society will paint a single mother as wanting to do it all by themselves, as proud, as arrogant.

Standing at the balcony and realising the only reason I haven’t left this fu##$ng world is because I don't have it in me to leave that boy alone or take his life.

I am out of fight.

Hello guys.

I hope it's ok for me to ask this, but has anyone here legit received a gift or something valuable from someone on Reddit, either from the community or abroad, and it really turned out to be something true and with no strings attached?

Do you believe that some people are genuinely whole hearted, and how can one gauge genuine intentions vs those that could lead to serious consequences?

Met someone here, been having very stimulating conversation for a while, and just recently, they kinda proposed to send me something after a bit of ranting on my end, was excited at first (maybe I'm a bit gullible), but after telling my siz, she strongly advised me against it and I got kinda wary about the idea. The something though would have been something very valuable to me, but I've just been going down a rabbit hole thinking of all the ways I could be an accomplice to crime and could land myself in trouble for trusting online strangers, and I kinda feel like I lead with good intentions sometimes and I could have been projecting that onto everyone I come across.

I apologize if this seems like a low quality post, but I just need a bit of advice :)

Let's talk about this.I am an employed young adult who gets told this 1000 times when I say I'm exhausted.

COVID millionaires.

EBOLA millionaires.

Fuel Price millionaires.

Protest millionaires.

Election millionaires.

But millions of poor people.

I think I'm done with LinkedIn, on to better pastures.