Dominance...

Marriages become distressed for a variety of reasons.  We see them all; infidelity, addiction, poor communication, lack of love, anger, and more. One of the most common difficulties leading couples to problems is one spouse controlling or dominating the other.

Some controlled or dominated spouses finally had enough and decided not to take it any longer. They took a stand and made it clear that if things do not change the marriage will soon be over. Others fell into an emotional relationship with someone who treated them with dignity and respect. All have one thing in common: they demand a different life than the one they have been subjected.

Though in actuality the marriage has been in trouble for some time, the other spouse did not recognize the severity of the problem. Most controlling or dominating spouses have little comprehension of how their actions affect their spouses. As they become aware of their husband or wife’s negative reactions to them, they typically justify their behaviors by explaining their intentions. 

“I thought I was helping by pointing out things to be done better.”

Fund me...

 

While GoFundMe has helped countless people out of real jams, the charity crowd funding website also attracts scammers, from the homeless man scam to the mother imprisoned for child abuse after pretending her son had cancer.  

Downloading a photo of someone else’s crisis and pretending it’s your own is easy to do  but so is spotting these fakes. Download the campaign image or copy paste the link and run a reverse image search. You may find the same image shared on the organizer’s social media pages, but steer clear of any campaigns where the images came from a different person entirely.  

Some scammers shoot their own photos, so original images don’t make the campaign a sure thing, but can weed out some of the fakes.

Reading through the comments before backing a crowdfunding campaign is a good idea that applies to identifying scams on platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo too. GoFundMe suggests looking for supportive comments from friends and family of the recipient. Lack of comments may also be a red flag.

Intrinsic...

Women go into marriage for the marriage itself.  For the woman, it’s a combo, a package deal. You get the house, the cars, the stuff, the kids and the guy. Many complain that they feel they are last on the list, after the kids, her job, her mother, her sister, her friends and Zumba. She can get her needs met in a variety of ways and can have close, intimate relationships with any one of those on that list, not only with him.

For many men, however, the woman is central. They desperately need to feel connected to her emotionally. They also need for their wives to admire and respect them. Women belittle that need, but it exists and it’s true.

Typically, when a man either has an affair or leaves a long-term marriage, the wife is often incredulous. She can’t understand how he could put everything they’d built together at risk. To the wife, the marriage itself has such an intrinsic value. But many men felt that, yes, they were part of it and they went along with it because she seemed to want it so much, but the institution of marriage was not what was keeping him there. It’s his wife that he wants. When she isn't there, it’s not that hard to walk away.

Once his interests migrated,  he’s not the man she thought he was and that is the beginning of heart aches.  

Reveal...

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a harsh summary report in May revealing that an FBI Deputy Assistant Director had numerous unauthorized contacts with the media, accepted gifts from journalists and disclosed the ‘existence’ of sensitive information under court seal to the media.

Several officials confirmed that the unknown senior FBI official is Bryan Paarmann. He is currently on leave and his security clearance has been suspended, sources stated.

 The large number of FBI employees who were in contact with journalists during this time period made it difficult to identify the sources of leaks.  Just a thought.

Can't...

We want the power by all and any means. We say any thing and we do any thing. Just a thought.

Crisis...

That said it all.

Mis-Remember...

We exaggerate our memories. The fact that often we ‘mis-remember’ past experiences can place us in more difficulties.

We tend to remember ‘good’ things being better than they actually were. And we tend to remember ‘bad’ things being worse than they actually were. We exaggerate our memories. 

The way this plays into men thinking that women will bring them happiness is quite simple: we tend to have overly positive recollections of the good times we shared with women in the past. You remember something like going on an exotic vacation or decorating a new apartment with an ex-girlfriend, and it seems like that was one

of your happiest moments ever. 

In reality, it was probably a good time, but most likely you didn’t think it was ‘heaven-on-earth’ while it actually was happening.

Another big idea is the fact that we romanticize the future, just as we do the past. And this feeds into the false belief that women will bring us happiness for the same reasons that ‘mis-remembering’ the past does.

The danger here is that we’re prone to incorrectly believing that finding a girlfriend or having one will be the best thing ever and make us oh-so-happy for ever and ever. 

Just a thought.

Extort...

Seul Ki Yum, of Olympia in Washington, spent three years picking out her targets on Tinder, OK Cupid and Seeking Arrangements before blackmailing them to pay for rent, laptops and designer handbags.

The 26-year-old would tell the men she slept with that she had become pregnant and demanded that they pay for purported abortions or she would expose them to family members and future partners.

In one instance, Yum acquired a naked image of one of her victims and sent it to his future girlfriend and wife-to-be when the man failed to pay the demanded sum.

In another, after meeting a married California wine dealer, Yum received $10,000 a month from the victim for over two years so that she would not tell his wife.

After one of her seven victims approached the police, the FBI arranged for the man to wear a wire to record their conversation during an exchange for $5,000, which eventually led to Yum's arrest.

She pleaded guilty to five counts of extortion.

Yum faced the prospect of a lengthy period behind bars, but prosecutors agreed to an "exceptionally low" sentence of 30 days imprisonment given it was her first offence, her remorse and her cooperation with police authorities in their investigation.

"I am very ashamed and very embarrassed of my behaviour," she told Judge Lori K Smith, reported the Seattle Pi.

Inmate...

“For 23 years, I was a jailhouse lawyer,” said Calvin Duncan, a former inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. “That was my assigned job.”

He had a 10th-grade education, and he was serving a life sentence for murder. The prison paid him 20 cents an hour to help his fellow prisoners with their cases.

He got good at it, and he used his increasingly formidable legal skills to help free several inmates. He knew how to spot a promising legal issue, and he was relentless. Seasoned lawyers sought his advice.

One issue in particular consumed Mr. Duncan. He could not understand how a Louisiana law that allowed non-unanimous juries in criminal cases could be constitutional. He would not let it go, working on about two dozen failed attempts to persuade the Supreme Court to address the issue.

Last year, Louisiana’s voters amended the State Constitution to require unanimity, though only for crimes committed after 2018. In April, The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on the subject.

New...

At the edge of the ancient pyramids of Giza, some 5,000 construction workers labor around the clock to finish the long-awaited GrandEgyptian Museum. Expected to open by the end of this year, the 5.2-million-square-foot structure will become the world's largest museum devoted to a single civilization.

"This will be the museum of the 21st century," said its director general, Tarek Tawfik

All means of modern technology have been taken into consideration in order to make this an unforgettable experience for the visitor, but at the same time provide the best possible environment for the artifacts.