Things To Know About Dead Billionaire, Antonio Deinde Fernandez
He is 76 years old. He Is A Billionaire. Reputed To Have Not One, But SIX Private Jets. He Owns A Chateau In France, Once Occupied By Napoleon Bonaparte, The Emperor Of France. Friend Of Mobutu. Ally Of Kofi Annan. Associate Of Mandela. I Call Him The Emperor of Blinding Swagger. Terrific Swagger. He Is So Classy That Whenever He Enters A Restaurant To Eat, Everyone Else Must Leave Because He Cannot Eat With The 'Commoners'. He Takes Over Entire Restaurants For The Night To Avoid Encountering 'RiffRaff'. (Chai! Poor Man Don Suffer). Of All The Richest Nigerians I Know, None Comes Close To This Man When It Comes To The Level Of Style, 'Tooshness' & Money-Backed Aloofness. But Who Is He? How He Made His Money? His Marriages? Why He Left His House For A Hotel?
Welcome to the world of one of Africa's richest men: HIS EXCELLENCY, OLUWO ANTONIO OLADEINDE FERNANDEZ, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative (see his writings to the President of the United Nations Security Council and United Nations Secretary General on behalf of President Ange-Félix Patassé of the Central African Republic in 1998 in the pictures). When it comes to the most impressive and exuberant display of the splendour of wealth, Fernandez dusts them all -by miles. The name 'Fernandez' is Portuguese in origin and shows that he is of the popular Fernandez family of Lagos. Historical accounts show that the Fernandezes were originally descendants of freed slaves from Brazil, where Portuguese is the official language. Some of the first modern-styled buildings in Lagos were built by the Fernandezes, and these buildings are known for their spectacular Brazilian architecture. Portuguese navigators were also the first European explorers to reach Lagos State. Actually, they gave the state the name 'Lagos' For Ovation magazine to feature a man in 40 pages says a lot about his prestigious standing. Very secretive (not in a bad way or let me say he guards his privacy jealously) and aloof (he very rarely comes to Nigeria where he is from), this is one rich man in a class and mansion of his own -with no rivals but maybe a few big cats. His wealth has dazed and fazed many, and left even many more speechless. ANTONIO DEINDE FERNANDEZ. Okay, enough of that. Let's get some bits on him: -He is the perfect combination of a diplomat (you can also refer to that as ambassador), businessman and yes, a gentleman. He is multilingual, tall and dark (yeah, take a look at the pix again, will you?) -Even though he is Nigerian, he was appointed the Permanent Representative of Central African Republic (CAR) at the United Nations in 1997 (ain't that classy?, but with the current turmoil in CAR, with former President Francois Bozize fleeing the nation, things are hazy). -Fernandez is said to have interests in the CAR's oil industry (at a time, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic). That does not include his bauxite (for aluminum) exports, gold mines (in Angola) and diamonds pits. He owns Petro Inett, an oil company. Petro Inett is just one of them. He also has shares in View, Sandcat Petroleum, Sanantonio, Goldfields, Voguehope, Grantdalem Inuola, Sandcat Goldfields (cat, cat, now I understand those two cats...lol), Woods and Petro Inett Equatorial Guinea. -Before then, he had served as the Special Adviser to the President of Mozambique on International Economic Matters and from 1992-1995, he was the Ambassador-at-Large for the Republic of Togo and Angola. -He was also once the Consul for Benin Republic (then Republic of Dahomey) (1966), made the Economic Advisor to the Angolan Government in 1982 (just for perspective, only Nigeria produces more oil than Angola in Africa, shey you gerrit?). To be specific, he was a long-time adviser to President José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola (he’s been ruling since 1975). In 1984, he was the Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations. At a point, he was a Deputy Minister of Finance in Swaziland. -He has houses in Kano, built a tower for himself in Lagos (where he was born in 1936), New York (where he is said to stay almost permanently), Scotland, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom. But that’s not all, he has accounts in the Cayman Islands, France, Switzerland (I love that country joor), Ireland, Hong Kong, Scotland and the United States. Don’t ask me of Nigeria. -He surrounds himself with the finest, classiest and the most exquisite things that money can buy. In a divorce case with one of his former wives, it was revealed that he splashed 200,000 British Pounds on his seven-storey townhouse to buy 1,000 books of gold leaf to ‘toosh’ up the already ‘tooshed’ cornices and balustrades. -A high chief of the Ogboni Confraternity, he is highly revered in his Yorubaland and his family motto is: Aguntan meji kii mumi ninu koto kan na (see images for the insignia). Okay, what that simply means is that two rams cannot drink from the same container. Or some people will say, there cannot be two captains on a ship. -He once married (some reports insist they were only romantically linked) the Erelu of Lagos, Abiola Dosumu but they fell apart and the Erelu of Lagos has since stopped using his name, Fernandez. Today, he is married to a beauty from Kano State. Her name? Haleema, and has a daughter, Mahreyah. She is said to be of the Alhaji Muhammadu Maude (also known as Maude Tobacco) family of Kano. Alhaji Maude was the Presidential Liaison Officer for Kano State during the Shehu Shagari presidency. A wealthy businessman, he made attempts to become governor of Kano State in the 1980s but lost even though his campaign was one of the most colourful and was associated with the use of yan banga, local thugs. In 2012, he denied reuniting with Aduke, his former wife. The chief thundered: ‘It’s a big lie. It will never happen, even in a million years.’ -He owns one of the most luxurious homes in Kano State (with one of the largest horse stables and farms in Nigeria, one of the Boko Haram battles in January 2012 during which the pregnant wife of one of the Boko Haram leaders was reportedly killed, was close to his property). But the house is now said to be falling apart. Well, he doesn’t stay at home! He finished from Cambridge University and Columbia University (business degree) and has been using private jets long before people like Dangote and what is the name of that man again o….ehen! Adenuga! started dreaming of a billion dollars. -He has been in the diplomatic business since 1966 so billions are not new to him. He has direct contacts to some of the most powerful world leaders, business executives and entrepreneurs. He is said to be very close to leaders like Nelson Mandela and George Walker Bush -and they address themselves by the first names. He surely pulls the strings. At a time, he wanted to sue a decorating firm for publishing the pictures of one of his properties that they had worked on. Okay o. -A very deft diplomat was also instrumental to the Bangui Agreements of 1997. He has denied having any links with the Nkomati Accords signed in 1984 between Mozambique and South Africa, to which some have given him credits. He gave brilliant speeches at the United Nations, and below is an excerpt: Mr. Fernandez (Central African Republic) I take pleasure in congratulating Mr. Opertti on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, and I pledge my delegation’s full cooperation. I commend his predecessor, Mr. Udovenko, for bringing the fifty-second session of the General Assembly to a successful conclusion. I take great pleasure in expressing my pride in our Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan. His leadership and many achievements during the short period of his tenure are highly commendable. Just as this session of the General Assembly coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it also coincides, providentially, with the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of peacekeeping operations by the United Nations. These coincidences are striking because, while one was envisaged in the Charter of our Organization and was the subject of painstaking negotiations, the other was a chance development, not having been envisaged in the Charter. Yet both have had a profound effect on the influence of the United Nations in global affairs and on the perception of the Organization by those whom it was established to serve and who were identified in the opening words of the Charter as “We the peoples of the United Nations”. The double celebration this year should also enable us to appreciate better the interrelationship between human rights and peacekeeping. There can be no question of human rights being enjoyed in a situation of conflict. Put another way, conflicts create conditions for the most outrageous violations of human rights, since, contrary to all international law and rationality, the most vulnerable in society — children, women and the aged — are often targeted and deprived of the most basic of human rights, the right to life. As we define and refine our Organization’s responsibilities in peacekeeping, which, by common consent, is now taken in its broadest sense to mean the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts, let us always be conscious that the universal enjoyment of human rights, one of the major aspirations of humanity, cannot and will not be achieved unless we devote as much effort to the elimination of the conditions that provoke the violation of those rights. I believe that it is with this fact in mind that international organizations, whether global, regional or subregional, have been devoting considerable time to devising effective means of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts in their various area of competence. Of course, the United Nations, with its unique role as the only global Organization invested with authority for the maintenance of international peace and security, is, appropriately, taking the lead in these efforts…. -In 1987, his American wife of 25 years, Barbara J. Fernandez, filed for divorce, and the proceedings of the case was at the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut (Barbara Fernandez v. Antonio Deinde Fernandez (13283) and the case ‘involved the applicability of the doctrine of diplomatic immunity to an action for marital dissolution and equitable property distribution.’ As at the time of the divorce, Barbara Fernandez stated ‘an international businessman and diplomat who has admitted to being one of the richest men in Africa. He heads dozens of companies, and I believe his net worth exceeds $75 million.’ She (plaintiff) also stated that, in her opinion ‘the defendant could easily sell or transfer assets that are relevant to her claims for relief.’ (Fernandez vs. Fernandez). -Ambassador Antonio Deinde Fernandez ‘claimed diplomatic immunity by virtue of his status as an ambassador to the United Nations for the People’s Republic of Mozambique’, and moved that the court dismiss the entire suit for lack of personal jurisdiction. A waiver was later provided, and the full text of the waiver went thus, providing: ‘Limited Waiver of Immunity.’ ‘Pursuant to Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the People’s Republic of Mozambique hereby waives the immunity extended by the United States of America to Ambassador Antonio Deinde Fernandez under the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations to the following limited and restricted extent only…’ One very unique thing about this Yoruba high chief is that unlike many other moneybags in Nigeria today, he did not make his money in Nigerian public office but rather by working as a suave and most talented diplomat FOR other nations of the globe, at a time when IBB and others were struggling over coups to rule Nigeria, he was already dealing with governments one-on-one. He has no traceable business or investment in Nigeria and stays virtually permanently outside the country (na your money o but nothing for we people of Nigeria,not even a tashere foundation or school tabi hospital. No lele o, Baba God at the top is watching all of us on His Samsung Galaxy). It is quite unfortunate that quite little is known about him (haha, I know how much I wrote on Adenuga na…lol!) because of intense privacy (which he has every right to), and what that means is that we may never know his real worth. At any rate, I stick to Forbes and Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index which lists Aliko Dangote as the richest black person on the third planet in the Solar System. Maybe a day will come when the Big Masquerade, the Afobaje (Kingmaker), the Custodian of Prosperity & Panache, Olori Ogboni Agba (Supreme Ogboni Chief) and Olori Oluwo (Head of the Occult) of Lagos, will come out and displace the Kano tycoon. If that day comes, this piece will be rewritten. Let’s take a good look at some of his titles, honours and awards (he is a tribal Yoruba chief and said to be one of the most prominent members of the Ogboni Confraternity): His Excellency, AMBASSADOR, CHIEF ANTONIO DEINDE FERNANDEZ. -His Imperial Highness Garsan Fulanin Kano (Kano State, Nigeria). -Baron of Dudley (England). -Grand Officier de l’Ordre National du Leopard (Grand Officer of the National Order of the Leopard, the Democratic Republic of Congo) -Grand Officier de l’Ordre du Merite Centrafricain (Grand Officer of the Order of Merit, Central African Republic). -Grand Officier de l’Ordre du Mono (Grand Officer of the Order of Mono, Togo). -Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Merite du Gabon (Commander of the National Order of Merit, Gabon). -Officier du Ouissam Alaouite (Officer of the Ouissam Alaouite, Morocco where the descendants of the Alaouite dynasty rule as kings. The present is King Sidi Mohammed VI) Thanks for your time. IYANIWURA.
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my mentor some yrs back
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@Iyaniwura dz s short. Is dat all u v abt him?
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Op,your site is not user friendly. ONLY those with unlimited data plan should click on that link.
My 6mb wasn't even enough. Nice research you made on him there. I was particularly amazed by the volume of your reference page. Nice work. Again,photos of his Yatch was annoyingly too much. You still deemed it fit to add photos of an asset he sold almost 10 years ago. Whoever does that kwanu?  A good read!
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As d man ego big reach, na only women fit chop hin money.
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Yes, for now
 Any fresh info will still be added, thanks for asking. And that's assuming you followed the link provided.  Okiki_Oluwa: @Iyaniwura dz s short. Is dat all u v abt him? |
You are right, but I will see what I can do to make accessing it easier. Thanks a lot. Yes, I had to add the pictures of the yacht because there is very little info on it, and many Nigerians still think he still has the yacht. Iyaniwura gives as much details as possible but maybe I was a bit carried away with the yacht sha
 , thanks a lot.Screwface: Op,your site is not user friendly. ONLY those with unlimited data plan should click on that link. |
Na you talk that one o
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Okay, but the question still remains :
Where Is Chief Oladeinde Antonio Fernandez? Nigeria's RICHEST man. http://www.nairaland.com/905661/where-earth-chief-oladeinde-fenandez
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I know he's filthy rich.
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ANTONIO OLADEINDE FERNANDEZ. Nice sexzy rich name.
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Yeah, you are on point.
nikkyshyne: ANTONIO OLADEINDE FERNANDEZ. Nice sexzy rich name.
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Yipeeee!!! Yes, Oluwo Dehinde Fernadez is my maternal uncle. He is very different from most African wealthy men. He got class and very tall and handsome. Thanks Iyanwiura for profiling him.
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Olori Apena 1! Respect Lewi!!
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I didn't enjoy this.Too little information on him to digest and enjoy.
 Why does he have a spanish name? Who are his parents? Where was he born and bred? Does he think himself a Nigerian? Marriage? Children?
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gunuvi: Yipeeee!!! Yes, Oluwo Dehinde Fernadez is my maternal uncle. He is very different from most African wealthy men. He got class and very tall and handsome. Thanks Iyanwiura for profiling him. |
Kindly follow the link provided to get answers to your questions. Thank you.
slimyem: I didn't enjoy this.Too little information on him to digest and enjoy.
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Olowo ti ko fe ariwo
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. Someday y'all will profile me better than chief Fernandez__amen .
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Ìyániwúrà123: Kindly follow the link provided to get answers to your questions. Thank you.still nothing on why he is ANTONIO FERNANDEZ and not ANTONIO OGUNJIMI or something..  I found this intersting however.. Samora Machel later died in a |
Slimyem, the post has been specially revised for you. Check again now, thank you
slimyem: still nothing on why he is ANTONIO FERNANDEZ and not ANTONIO OGUNJIMI or something.. |
Yipeeee!!! Yes, Oluwo Dehinde Fernadez is my maternal uncle. He is very different from most African wealthy men. He got class and very tall and handsome. Thanks Iyanwiura for profiling him.
Nigerians like to worship money sha. The man is wherever he is, making his money and not investing a dime in Nigeria and people are behind their keyboards singing his praise. How has this profile changed d report that nigerians feed on $2 a day
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..and this funny..
He has no:D8)
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Doesn't sound like an honourable man.....yes he is rich but multiple wives (and families?) no philanthropy, no humility, no patriotism ( no industry set up in Nigeria?)... Never liked the sound of him and now i am even more convinced
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He has class you can tell
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op i think you were carried away with trying to give us the impression that fernandez is a wealthy man, to be honest i didnt see anything worthy of emulation from him thru wat i read.
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This is palpable nonsense and you know it..fawning d eminent is not a job,get 1
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not heard of this name before ...
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all is vanity if he does'nt have Jesus in his life.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Thursday, 6 August 2015
What to do when you discover you are just an option to people you love
What to do when you discover you are just an option to people you love
We can’t make people make us a priority but we do have the power to enable ourselves to become a “priority person” in life
There are times when you realize you are an option and not a priority, and if you don’t realize it, you are haunted by the thought.
When you get together with a certain someone, you feel like the third wheel or the last one invited to the party. You are the plus one. Maybe you suspect you are some last minute arrangement. Sometimes you may feel like you are being edged out by some invisible force, like a new, more interesting version of you with more time or more money or fewer problems.
I’ve been there, too, too many times. I have been the understanding girlfriend, the accommodating wife, the forgiving sister and the easy-going friend. I would make excuses like, “Well, they are just a) busy b) stressed c) going through a rough time or d) in a weird place right now.” And sometimes these things could have been true. I would tell myself I needed to be less self-centered, egocentric or needy, which sounded healthy. I’d go over what I didn’t do right. I’d try to be THE better person and give them a pass. I’d try to be a better person more worthy of their attentions and affections.
But after exhausting myself, I had to come to terms: I had allowed myself to become “the option person” in life. And although we can’t make people make us a priority, we do have the power to enable ourselves to become a “priority person” in life. And here is how it can be done by you and me.
1. Make yourself and your needs a priority
I know it might sound counter-intuitive to you, but the truth is people like you because you make them the priority and they don’t have to make you a priority. By indulging yourself, doing what you want, when you want, how you want, even if you are alone while doing it, you are really carving out your own dominion.
The people who want to make you a priority will come to your kingdom or they can play elsewhere.
If you are a very giving person, you will have a hard time with this. If necessary, get a pet or a garden going that needs you to make them a priority. You will fulfill your need to be giving in a healthy way that doesn’t set up these relationships where you are second best.
But truly, you need to start living for yourself, not for another person.
2. Recognize the users in your life, even if they are family
It is difficult to identify and then distance yourself from the users in your life, especially if it is family members who have been the ones who have taught you since birth through their actions that you and your wants aren’t very important. It could be that they have their own emotional baggage, and you can be compassionate about it, but if they are repeatedly enforcing the message that you are not good enough or that your needs shouldn’t come first, then you have to take a step back from them when the time is right for you.
Someone taught you to be the “option person,” and you have to get real about who that person or those people are. It will be life altering when you take the blinders off. Promise.
3. List the value of you
It may sound dopey, but for all the time you might spend criticizing and putting yourself down, you at the least need to make a mental lists of your valuable assets. You have them. You have your funny side, your compassionate side, your loving side, your nurturing side, your smart side, your hard-working side, and so many other sides. List them. Pin them up on a mirror. Every day we spend time looking in mirrors to check out our face, teeth, and clothes. Have some internal, introspective, beneath-the-surface qualities that demonstrate you are worthy. Chances are you’ve forgotten some.
After internalizing your list, you’ll notice better when others don’t appreciate you, and you’ll know sooner to stop wasting emotional energy on them or to re-prioritize them as an option person, too.
4. Invest yourself in a worthy cause
I don’t think we think about volunteering and charity as a self-help tool, but it can be. If you are a giving person, give to a cause that will benefit from your good works. Don’t dump your energy into people who are not valuing you. It does no good. But do give yourself to helping others and causes you care about, you will be doing something of value.
And just think of it, you just added another reason you are a valuable, worthy person. Viola!
5. Don’t turn back!
It is difficult for me not to look back on the good times with people and not think better times will come around, but realistically, you shouldn’t turn back. Once you have realized you are the option, not the priority, a priority person will not look back or go back to being the option person. It will hurt. I haven’t had the experience where someone wanted to know what went wrong and try to work on things. I’ve either gotten silence or a caustic list of how I am the cause of all wrong. So unless you want to be the doormat or someone’s whipping dog or slip back into being just an option, you have to move forward.
Hope is a really great thing unless it is distorting your reality and derailing your future.
6. Believe that better people and better things are just ahead!
Reading over other online posts, the number one reason people get stuck being an option and are unable to make themselves a priority is because they don’t believe there is someone or something better just ahead. Maybe few people want to admit it, but it seems a lot of drama is coming out of the idea that they are “meant to be” with a certain someone: Giving up on that person is giving up on love. Giving up means breaking our word. We promised. We committed. We must remain faithful and true to the end. We must go down with the ship!
But the thing is, once the other person has given up on love, stopped trying, started investing themselves elsewhere, the love stopped existing. Once the friendship was left behind, it withered and died. Relationships, like plants, need things to live and more care to thrive. Hanging on to someone or something because of a story you told yourself a few years ago is going to take away the best things in your life: your possibilities and your future.
As cliche as it is, it is true: every ending is something else’s beginning. And if you have worked on yourself and your priorities, the right people and opportunities will show themselves.
7. Stay fluid and continue to make new friends
One of the reasons high school can be terrible or some job can be awful is because we get stuck with the same people and the same routines. Nothing new or interesting happens unless someone new comes into the group. But instead of waiting for someone new to come to you, like “option people” do, you need to go out and meet new people, make new friends and contacts, and expand your horizons. As an “option person” you probably fenced yourself in. You maybe even lost touch with other people because you were trying to stay available for that other person or because you allowed yourself to get sucked into all their plans having none of your own.
Even the worst dating article I read had a truth in it; no one will make you a priority until you make them show you are a priority.
And if you are hanging around hoping that certain someone will finally give you the metaphoric red roses you deserve, you have turned your back on the person who is already ready to do so. So drop off that other person’s radar. If they come around, great. If they don’t, which is more likely, even better. Because to tell you the truth, it seems me many want second chances because they can get third, fourth, and fifth ones too. How tiresome are they? Let them learn the hard way. Don’t continue to be their soft landing spot in life.
8. Be direct with what you want from the relationship
This may send you into panic mode, and if it does, I’m sorry. But really, if you don’t like being an option and you don’t like being taken for granted and if you want more, you have to have “the talk.” I know this is the best thing and should be probably number one. It probably makes all the other stuff I’ve said non-issues. And I know for a lot of people it will be like scheduling a root canal and then showing up to find out they are out of laughing gas. But in some ways, it isn’t much more effort than number one, making yourself and your needs a priority. But you have to actually communicate them to the someone significant in your life, or the someone you wish to become significant in your life.
You may even need your list of value in hand, to remind yourself you are worth it.
9. Be okay with being on your own without turning into a hermit or emotionally shallow
You may be hanging on and becoming comfortable with being an option person largely because you are more afraid of being alone and feeling lonely. Or you are more comfortable with the lack of intimacy in your relationship. Or you’re afraid of intimacy. Sometimes distant relationships or relationships that come and go easily aren’t because they are these great, epic friendships where people are so perfectly comfortable with each other they can pick up where they started. Sometimes they work because the people in these relationships lack emotional depth or are avoiding long-term intimacy that requires accountability. You want to keep your depth, your ability to connect emotionally with someone, and to be able to be held equally accountable in a long-term relationship. So while you need to be able to weather life on your own, you don’t want to become so comfortable that you lose you ability to have a meaningful relationship.
Meaningful relations are all about being a priority.
So while you need to be able to weather life on your own so you won’t settle or hang-on to the wrong people, you don’t want to become so comfortable that you lose you ability to have a meaningful relationship.
10. Allow yourself to be a little high-maintenance
I mention this one lastly because I believe many of you option people have tried so hard in life to be the accommodating one or to please someone or not to be upsetting or to be demanding in any way. I’ve had people try to make it out like I was being high maintenance as a strategic move to get me to be the jellyfish friend or the sad-sap girlfriend they needed. I’ve made friendships and relationships all about the other person, and sometimes I thought I was doing the right thing at the time.
Most people need to work on number nine and quit trying to use people as their crutches, their door mats, or their whipping dogs. People don’t need other people as much as they need to quit using each other and get right with themselves. So sometimes, do yourself the favor, be high-maintenance, make some demands, and be able to let them and yourself walk alone.
There are times when we won’t and can’t be a priority to someone else we deeply care about, legitimate reasons like they have a very young child or an aged parent who is very ill. There are times when we have to be understanding about the demands of an occupation like if the person works shifts or has to work with people in different time zones. We have to know their passions and how this will impact the relationship. It the legitimate reasons are for real and are not just subterfuge or out-and-out lies, you could be doing the right thing by staying open, accommodating, and flexible.
But if the other person is communicating to you that your are not worth being a priority, then feel free to walk on.
And of course, you may just need more than the other person can give.
So believe you will find yourself a worthy partner who will want to walk beside you not one who would have you chasing their shadow.
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