This is the question from Hive Naija.
📝 Truth is indeed a bitter thing, and it hits differently when it touches our hearts. Has there been a time someone told you a painful truth about yourself? What was it, and how did it make you feel?
Indeed, telling the truth is bitter when told.
I will begin with a story of a man whom I watched on the social media platform. It is all about marriage. He got married to a beautiful damsel and got up to divorce this lady, for her character of lying. The lady took the case to the court. They had been staying separately before, so the court told them to stay under the same roof with the man. She did, according to the order of the court.
Under the same roof, the husband would be coming with another woman to their matrimonial room and it has been escalated into a fight.
A married woman who is vested in marital knowledge stepped in to address the issues between husband and wife. She first talked to the lady, asked the necessary questions she needed to have asked the lady, and answered appropriately. She went to her husband and asked him questions upon questions and he responded as someone immature in marriage. Here, the truth was being revealed to him by the woman and he was ranting and shouting and being pained by the truth of the woman. The woman rightly told him that he would lose everything for bringing another lady into the house, that he didn't know the purpose of the court telling him to stay under the same roof with his wife, and that they were testing him if he could sort out things in his marriage but he failed to be sensitive. The woman told him the truth about women and marriage, and he kept on shouting, for the truth. The truth is that he is handling marriage as if he is in a relationship. Marriage needs wisdom and patience to put things in place. At the same time, women are naturally disrespectful, and it takes the strong heart of a man to make that woman humble.
We are humans and we are bound to make mistakes. In life, the nature in us would likely want to come up, especially when the truth is being told.
For my part, my boss mostly reprimanded me for many things; for some things, he used to say pain me, but he was telling the truth; deep within me, I was boiling and crying. The fact is that, whether we like it or not, the truth is the truth and it must be told.
This is in response to the Hive Naija contest
Thank you for reading through.
I love, I care, and I forgive.
I remain 
