Last night I saw some shocking news on Television Jamaica...I mean the news on TV is so gruesome that unfortunately my mind has gotten used to the human depravity that makes the news...
But this news story actually blew me away!:
A woman, who accused a 14-year old schoolgirl of taking away her man, lay-waited her and gave her a good whopping on Wednesday morning, with an electrical wire.
Even though the schoolgirl kept telling the woman that she was not involved with her man, the woman continued to beat her.
The beating was so severe that the police had to intervene...the woman was eventually arrested for causing bodily harm to the schoolgirl.
Now, I feel that this woman was rightly angry because her man cheated on her...but her anger was misdirected...it should have been directed at her cheating boyfriend...she should have given him the whopping versus the schoolgirl...
Now I'm not condoning a woman beating a man, here...but these women must realize that when their husbands or boyfriends cheat on them, it's not just the "other woman's" fault...the boyfriend/husband is also at fault.
If a man cheats on a woman or a woman cheats on a man, once, it may have been an error in judgement, but if he/she does it over two (2) times, then that person has lost the right to be in relationship.
I believe that both women and men should have enough self respect that they do not allow cheating partners into their beds.
Don't use the children or some other lame excuse to stay in a relationship in which your partner takes his/her many lovers into bed with you, by cheating on you.
He/she is not only hurting you mentally and psychologically, he/she will give you Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and AIDS.
Your cheating partner will also make your children feel insecure in the home and make them distrustful,when married, of their partners.
The Bible (in Matthew 5:31-32), gives allowance for a married person to divorce his/her cheating spouse.
This is the only time that remarriage, when the first partner is alive, is allowed, according to Scripture.
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Cheating is just plain wrong...
And people must understand before they enter into a relationship with you, what you will and will not tolerate...
Cheating, because of the emotional and physical damage that it results in, should be one of the top items on your "Will Not Tolerate" list!
Nuff said! (Jamaican meaning, enough has been said.)
(I want to thank David Gibb for the use of his Flickr inset picture above, of Jamaican schoolgirls relaxing in the shade of a tree, in their schoolyard.)
Gillian
Sources Include:
1) Television Jamaica News at 10:00 p.m., January 7,2009
2) www.BibleGateway.com specifically, Matthew 5:31-31



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