26/05/2017
Words by my business partner, radio and TV personality and author: Linda Andre Yende
Arguably, The two biggest causes of divorce are infidelity and finances. Lack of money can and does put a massive strain on marriage.
Hell, it puts a strain on friendships, even.
There comes a point where you have borrowed money from every single one of your friends. Where your friendships are all uncomfortable, because of "that little issue".
It is horrible! There is nothing worse than being known as a bad payer or worse, a chronic borrower.
An empty wallet really is a terrible disease. That point where people start to avoid you, because they know you are either going to complain about money, or ask to borrow money to get by.
Having your cars repossessed, your house auctioned off...that doesn't say you fell on hard times. To society, it says you are irresponsible with your money.
And believe me, society judges a broke man very harshly. If you haven't paid your child's school fees, if you haven't paid the lights, if the family has no food to eat...it's judged on the man. It is terrible for your self esteem. You feel like a failure!
I don't care how many people claim that "money isn't everything"...I still maintain that lack thereof IS everything. It consumes your entire being.
I have experienced most of the things that I am talking about, here. And I refuse to ever be there again.
I refuse to ever dread fetching my child from school, because I know she will ask for a pie and coke, or McDonalds, on the way home. And the orange light is saying the car may stop at any moment.
You know when you start getting mad at the poor child and telling them Money doesn't grow on trees, you know! Over a damn pie! That is shocking!
If you have ever told your child that you are not hungry, even as your stomach was growling...simply because you only have enough money to buy her food and not for yourself, you know what I mean.
I understand why women end up having to sell their bodies (in whatever form of transaction) just to get that money. At some point, your pride and dignity go right out the window.
People can glamorize "blesser" transactions and sugar daddies all they want...deep down, they know how soul destroying it is, to sell your body for money.
And this, for me, is why. I will never stop talking about Forever Living. I know what it has done for me. I know where it has taken me from and where it has taken me to.
When I show how much money Forever Living has paid us in such a short period of time, I am not doing it to brag...I am doing it to say, if you are where I have been, where I was a short 18 months ago...if you are battling and have run out of options, here is an alternative.
This is what it has done for me, and this is what it can do for you.
An empty wallet is a disease.
