There was a time when I used to brace for the next twist in the game.The next lie.The next manipulation.The next moment when reality would be rewritten to suit someone else’s fragile ego. Those days are over.No more head games. No more defending my sanity.No more falling for the drama dressed up as emotion, or… Read More 🕊️ No More Head Games — Just Peace, PleaseLet them perform. I choose peace.
✨ Honesty or Lies — You Decide ✨The cost of protecting appearances vs. standing in truth. Behind closed doors, the masks often slip. He pretended to be fair, to have integrity, to be “above all that.” But when his nephew married — a same-sex couple deeply in love and committing their lives to one another — he… Read More ✨ Honesty or Lies — You Decide
There are people who bravely battle real illness every day—people who fight in silence, with dignity, without demanding the world revolve around their suffering. And then… there are those who weaponize illness. People who perform sickness to gain sympathy, dodge responsibility, and manipulate the people around them into endless circles of concern, guilt, and servitude. It’s a… Read More 🎭 Lifetime of Lies: When Illness Becomes a Performance, Not a Condition
There’s something profoundly unsettling about watching those who shout the loudest about morality, legality, or integrity—while simultaneously turning a blind eye to their own transgressions, or worse, those of their family. It’s a story as old as time. A person accuses another of being involved in something “wrong,” “shameful,” or even “illegal”—but conveniently forgets that… Read More “When the Finger-Pointing Reveals More Than Just Accusation” – A Reflection on Hypocrisy, Double Standards, and the Psychology of Blame
There is a kind of lie that doesn’t hide in the shadows — it parades in broad daylight, cloaked in the language of integrity. This is the lie told by the “honest liar” — the person who insists they always tell the truth, while quietly weaving a web of deception. I knew one intimately. He… Read More The Honest Liar: A Tale of Deception Disguised as Integrity
When a partner allows others—especially family members—to disrespect or defame their significant other, that breach of loyalty is not just hurtful; it’s destabilizing. It breaks the emotional safety that relationships are built on. And when the damage extends to stepchildren, creating alienation and loss of trust, reconciliation might not just feel impossible—it might be inappropriate unless profound… Read More 🦋 Final Thought: Once the Line Has Been Crossed…
It was just a quiet night by the water in France — a tent pitched under the stars, two people sharing space, stillness, and the comfort that sometimes only nature can offer. Fishing rods lay forgotten beside them. The real weight that night wasn’t on the lines cast into the lake, but on the heart… Read More 🎣 The Boy in the Tent: When Truth Is Dismissed and Lies Are Believed
You don’t see it at first.Not because you’re naive or blind—but because you trusted. Because you loved. Because you believed in the story you were told. But over time, the cracks begin to show.Something feels off. The gifts feel performative. The kindness feels transactional. And suddenly, with one shift in perspective, it all falls into place: He… Read More 🔍 When the Mask Slips: The Truth Behind the Double Life 🔍
There’s something particularly painful about being betrayed by someone who wears the cloak of faith. When a person proclaims Christian values—kindness, truth, love, forgiveness—but acts in a way that is cruel, divisive, and fake, the word that comes to mind is hypocrisy. And not just the subtle kind, but the loud, glaring, soul-wounding kind. Imagine someone… Read More Hypocrisy in Plain Sight: When “Christian Values” Are Just a Mask
By Linda C J Turner, Therapist & Advocate For a long time, they thought they had won.A family — united not in love or honesty, but in lies, manipulation, and deceit — believing that if they stood together in dishonesty, they could rewrite history.That if enough people repeated the same false story, somehow it would become the… Read More When the Truth Finally Shines: Let Them See for Themselves
