Careful what you tell people about your lover

Love is exciting and being loved is fulfilling. When you are in love you feel like you want to tell the entire world how lucky you are to have someone who loves you dearly. But before you do, take a step to analyse who you share info about your love life with.
Whereas some people are genuinely happy for you and want to see you prosper in your relationship, others are nothing but wolves disguising as sheep. All they want to do is study your weaknesses and later use it to snatch your spouse from you.
Like I shared last week, Stacey was in a promising relationship for more than two years and everything pointed to marriage. She was proud of her boyfriend Stephen. Like most girls do, they used to talk about relationships with her neighbour and namesake Stacey. Stacey, too, was in a relationship and not at any point did her friend consider her a threat to her relationship.
One evening, Stacey walked into Stephen and his best friend’s fiancée having sex. They tried to hide it but she had already discovered the truth. She was devastated and like a bleeding girl, she one day shared with her neighbour (Stacey) about the heartbreaking scenario. Her neighbour encouraged her to break up with Stephen, move on and get a better man.

It was not easy but she tried to end it with Stephen anyway. One day, she returns home from work and found Stephen’s car at her home but to her shock, he had come to visit Stacey her neighbour. She played it cool and tried to ignore them but how could she? Her neighbour had gone behind her back and hooked up with her ex- boyfriend.
They kept seeing each other in her face but she held her head high and acted dumb until Stacey invited her to their wedding meetings. Now this was beyond what she could take in. At first she thought Stephen wanted to get back at her by dating her namesake who also happened to be her neighbour but she did not think this same woman who advised her to look for a better man had gone ahead to date and later on marry her ex.

So as you tell your friends about how well behaved your wife is or how your husband spoils you with gifts and holidays, be careful. Most people just want what you have and by keeping you close, all they want is to find loopholes in your relationship and then use it against you in the long run.
The question is: who do you share your love stories with? Or what do you tell your neighbours about your relationship?
Not everyone who smiles with you is actually wishing you well, other people keep hanging around you with hopes that you will fail and they take up what you have. Like dogs wait at the dining table with hopes of eating the leftovers, some people are good at taking what does not belong to them.

Part 3 coming next week