After the birth of our second child, my husband fell sick. It was really bad. I feared we were going to lose him until we went to the hospital. The doctors stabilized him, ran some tests, and then discussed their diagnosis with me.
Your husband has depression and high blood pressure,” they declared. They assured us that he would be fine as long as he took his medications regularly. He was given a diet plan to manage the pressure. With time, he got better as the doctors assured us…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>
I was ready for us to resume our marriage until I found out something was off about him. This man used to pounce on me at the slightest chance he got. That’s how passionate our love life was. We were always all over each other. All of that disappeared after his recovery. He started acting as if I wasn’t an attractive woman living with him.
I would undress before him but he wouldn’t be moved. It was painful for me to admit that my husband was losing interest in me sexually but that was the case. I reported the change to our doctors and they said, “It’s a side effect of his medications. It happens sometimes but don’t let it get to you. Eventually, he will return to the way he was.
They are the experts so I trusted them. I was filled with hope that things would get better but they only got worse. No matter how understanding I wanted to be, I am also a woman with needs. The sexual starvation got to me. I was doing my best to wait but how long could I wait? When it became too unbearable for me I had a conversation with my husband about my frustrations. With nonchalance, he said, “If you want it that bad then make the move.
I will do my best to meet you halfway.” It was something. Something that gave me hope. The first time I initiated intimacy, he rose to the occasion as promised. I was so happy until I wasn’t. The man who used to pound me into satisfaction now could not last beyond one minute.
I know some men finish fast during the first round, but when you get them going again they take you home during the second round. Unfortunately, my husband’s situation is nothing like that. The moment he is done with those few seconds of performance, there’s no rematch. He just gets up and goes about his business or nods off to sleep. It’s been like this with him for the past nine years.
I suffered a lot when it all began. I tried to make lemonade out of the lemons life dealt me. I told my husband that there are several ways to satisfy a woman that does not involve penile penetration. “You can use your tongue to get me there,” I suggested. He listened but refused to do it. I ended up developing an addiction to adult films as a result. I didn’t watch the ones with men doing it with women. I preferred the ones with women doing it with each other.
I would watch a woman go down on another woman and imagine I was the one at the receiving end of that pleasure. It was a harmless thing at first. All I wanted to do was live vicariously through women who were getting their needs met. Little did I know that I would soon graduate to wanting to participate in those acts. I thought about it often. I imagined how it would feel to experience the touch of a woman. I got pleasure from these thoughts.
If I knew any women who were into this kind of thing, I am sure I would have given myself to them. I didn’t so it all remained a fantasy that haunted me. To rid myself of my perverse desires, I spoke to a female doctor. I explained my struggles with intimacy in my marriage and the ways I tried to soothe my aches. She said no good would come out of me switching teams when it came to sexuality. We started some counseling sessions to help me overcome my addiction. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
It helped so we kept going. As we continued to talk, we got closer and closer. Sometimes she would invite me to social events. Other times we would hang out as friends, just the two of us. I found her friendship comforting. It helped me to clear my head whenever I felt overwhelmed. One time she invited me to a house party. It was a birthday party for a gentleman in her circle. As always, I showed up. Later at the party, she introduced me to the guy. We had a brief chat but that little moment felt like eternity. He is easy on the eyes, a great conversationalist, and I felt a spark with him.
He felt it too. If not, he wouldn’t have invited me to chill with him the weekend after our meeting. We went on to spend the next few weekends hanging out and getting acquainted. One day I was talking to the doctor when she asked me, “How are things going with Paul?” I shrugged and answered, “He is a nice guy and we enjoy each other’s company.” “He told me he likes you.” “Aww, that’s nice. I like him too.” “Do you understand what I mean? He said wants to have you.
And let me tell you, his head game is good.” She didn’t say anything more. She didn’t have to. We are not children. I understood what she meant. And out of curiosity, I decided to give him a try. After years of starvation with my husband, my experience with Paul felt like the first rain after eight years of drought. It was orgasmic, literally. Although I was judging myself the entire time we were doing it, the one thought that kept running through my mind was, “Damn, this guy is good!” I had purposed in my mind that it was going to be a one-time thing, but I kept going back for more.
Each time I would tell myself, “This is the last time. I won’t do it again.” It’s been one year now and we are still going at it. When we started, it was all about getting my satisfaction from him but now things have changed. We’ve fallen in love. If you see me with him, you would think he is my husband. Meanwhile, I am in a fourteen-year-old marriage.
I think I got so caught up in my happiness that I forgot to cover my tracks. I am saying this because my first child recently told me that my husband knows about what I’m doing. I didn’t believe him until he asked, “Isn’t his name Paul? He knows him.
He says he hasn’t said anything to you because he knows he can’t do anything about it. But he doesn’t mind giving you a divorce if that’s what will make you happy.” I don’t know which one is worse: hearing that my husband knows about my affair but has been acting perfectly normal and fulfilling his duties as a husband, or hearing the news from my child?
If shame could kill, mine would have rendered me a corpse long ago. I can’t look my husband in the eyes anymore even though he still hasn’t confronted me. I feel so stupid for doing this to my family. Accepting the divorce seems like a reasonable way out but I don’t want my kids to stay away from their father.
I am already aware that people will judge and insult me but that’s fine with me. I know there are women here who have walked in my shoes and will understand what led me here. I am counting on understanding souls like them to see past my shortcomings and counsel me. Should I let my husband know that I know he knows about the affair?
After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering. According to the Treason Act 1351 , this punishment involved…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>
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Michelle SpearProfessor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
That you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive cut down, your privy members shall be cut off and your bowels taken out and burned before you, your head severed from your body and your body divided into four quarters to be disposed of at the King’s pleasure.
This process aimed not only to inflict excruciating pain on the condemned, but to serve as a deterrent – demonstrating the fate of those who betrayed the Crown. While Fawkes reportedly jumped from the gallows – which meant he avoided the full extent of his punishment – his co-conspirators apparently weren’t so lucky.
By dissecting each stage of this medieval punishment from an anatomical perspective, we can understand the profound agony each of them endured.
Torture for confession
Before his public execution on January 31 1606, Fawkes was tortured to force a confession about his involvement in the “gunpowder plot”.
The Tower of London records confirm that King James I personally authorised “the gentler tortures first”. Accounts reveal that Fawkes was stretched on the rack – a device designed to slowly pull the limbs in opposite directions. This stretching inflicted severe trauma on the shoulders, elbows and hips, as well as the spine.
The forces exerted by the rack probably exceeded those required for joint or hip dislocation under normal conditions.
Substantive differences between Fawkes’ signatures on confessions between November 8 and shortly before his execution may indicate the amount of nerve and soft tissue damage sustained. It also illustrates how remarkable his final leap from the gallows was.
Stage 1: hanging (partial strangulation)
After surviving the torture of the rack, Fawkes and his gang faced the next stage of their punishment: hanging. But this form of hanging only partially strangled the condemned – preserving their consciousness and prolonging their suffering.
Partial strangulation exerts extreme pressure on several critical neck structures. The hyoid bone , a small u-shaped structure above the larynx, is prone to bruising or fracture under compression .
Simultaneously, pressure on the carotid arteries restricts blood flow to the brain, while compression of the jugular veins causes pooling of blood in the head – probably resulting in visible haemorrhages in the eyes and face.
Because the larynx and trachea (both essential for airflow) are partially obstructed, this makes breathing laboured. Strain on the cervical spine and surrounding muscles in the neck can lead to tearing, muscle spasms or dislocation of the vertebra – causing severe pain. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
Fawkes brought his agony to a premature end by leaping from the gallows. Accounts from the time tell us:
His body being weak with the torture and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder – yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck by the fall.
This probably caused him to suffer a bilateral fracture of his second cervical vertebra, assisted by his own bodyweight – an injury known as the “hangman’s fracture” .
Stage 2: Drawing (disembowelment)
After enduring partial hanging, the victim would then be “drawn” – a process which involved disembowelling them while still alive. This act mainly targeted the organs of the abdominal cavity – including the intestines, liver and kidney, as well as major blood vessels such as the abdominal aorta.
The physiological response to disembowelment would have been immediate and severe. The abdominal cavity possesses a high concentration of pain receptors – particularly around the membranous lining of the abdomen . When punctured, these pain receptors would have sent intense pain signals to the brain, overwhelming the body’s capacity for pain management . Shock would soon follow due to the rapid drop in blood pressure caused by massive amounts of blood loss.
Stage 3: quartering (dismemberment)
Quartering was also supposed to be performed while the victim was still alive. Though no accounts exist detailing at what phase victims typically lost consciousness during execution, it’s highly unlikely many survived the shock of being drawn.
So, at this stage, publicity superseded punishment given the victim’s likely earlier demise. Limbs that were removed from criminals were preserved by boiling them with spices. These were then toured around the country to act as a deterrent for others.
Though accounts suggest Fawkes’s body parts were sent to “the four corners of the United Kingdom”, there is no specific record of what was sent where. However, his head was displayed in London .
Traitor’s punishment
The punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering was designed to be as anatomically devastating as it was psychologically terrifying. Each stage of the process exploited the vulnerabilities of the human body to create maximum pain and suffering, while also serving as a grim reminder of the consequences of treason.
This punishment also gives us an insight into how medieval justice systems used the body as a canvas for social and political messaging. Fawkes’s fate, though unimaginable today, exemplifies the extremes to which the state could, and would, go to maintain control, power and authority over its subjects.
The sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering was officially removed from English law as part of the Forfeiture Act of 1870 .
There are many unusual things happening across the world. Children are charming and lovely, yet others are really dangerous and have been involved in a variety of illegal activities in society.
Joshua Phillips stabbed his neighbor’s eight-year-old daughter and put the girl’s body under his bed at home. After eight days, his mother discovered the body.
Joshua Phillips was fourteen years old when he committed this act, according to reports, and he was sentenced to life in jail.
Take a look at how Joshua Phillips is now.
2. Eric Smith:
Eric Smith, according to sources, was condemned to life in jail many years ago. Eric Smith was just 13 years old when he hit a 4-year-old boy with a rock and killed him.
Following multiple conversations with Eric, he stated that he was bullied by several senior kids at his school and that he killed the youngster because he was irritated and upset. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
3. Lionel Tate:
Lionel Tate was one of the youngest people to get a life sentence.
According to sources, when he was 13 years old, Lionel Tate killed his neighbor’s six-year-old daughter.
Lionel Tate claimed he was boxing with the young girl.
4. Brian Lee Draper:
Brian Lee Draper was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for murdering a classmate, according to reports.
The murder was committed by Brian Lee Draper and his friend Torey Adamcik, who was sixteen years old at the time.
Parents should always endeavor to teach their children how to be good children, as well as pray for them.
A woman named Stella Namwanje was arrested in Uganda for allegedly committing an atrocious act against her neighbor’s baby. Reports indicate that she was caught on video defecating and urinating on the infant before feeding him the waste. This shocking behavior has drawn widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the child’s welfare…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>
The incident took place in the Binyonyi A area of the Nyendo-Mukungwe division. Local authorities acted swiftly after the disturbing footage circulated on social media, prompting community outrage. The police have since taken Namwanje into custody to investigate the circumstances surrounding her actions and ensure the safety of the child.
The case has sparked discussions about the need for stronger measures to protect vulnerable individuals, especially children, from abuse. It highlights the alarming reality of child torture and the psychological issues that may drive such behavior. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
As the investigation unfolds, the community is rallying to support the affected family and prevent similar incidents in the future. The legal proceedings against Namwanje will likely focus on the extent of her actions and the necessary repercussions for such a heinous crime.