I have learned over the years that you pick your battles. I have also
learned that it is wise to ignore certain things, but when that certain
thing is something that could impact another being negatively, then I
would be doing a disservice by ignoring. I woke up this morning to a
tweet by a twitter follower of mine (blazingpearl). She had retweeted a
friend who retweeted a quote that was supposedly said by me.
Apparently some blogs are touting the idea that I am ok with
cheating. “Toni Payne Said, do not leave a cheating man” Toni payne said
its ok to cheat”. I have NEVER in any way shape or form, condoned
cheating. It is hurtful, wrong, can be dangerous and I do not advise
anybody male or female to cheat on their mate. I know different people
used different headlines to address my tweets. I am only referring to
those blogs whose headlines on twitter said I was ok with cheating. To
those who quoted me without saying I was ok with cheating. Thanks for
staying within the professional lines. My tweets were about self love.
We cant deny that not everyone leaves a cheating spouse. The point I was
trying to make was, if you decide to stay, please work on loving
yourself instead of being miserable because your man is creeping. That
is IF you decide to stay. I am not here to judge anyone who wants to
stay with a cheating spouse, we all know what we can endure in life and
we all know what makes us ok as individuals.
I felt like tweeting advise that may or may not help someone that may
be going through some difficult times. You never know who is reading
and I feel some words I have stumbled on have helped me too so why not. I
really don’t want to stop tweeting advice because of some mischievous
few, but misconstruing my words on such a sensitive topic is
irresponsible. Even if you no send me, send your readers naa. All na
public service abeg abeg. I enjoy my simple life and I don’t need the
extras. How many times have they posted that “Toni Payne is achieving
this” upon all the things I have done this year alone. My podcast has
been doing very well in Naija and America, they wont write about that…
na to put bad bad tin. God pass you jor.. lol…I digress!
I talk about my experience because that is what I have to share. I
can not speak about someone else’s opinion or experience. Only mine!.
Because I chose not to harbor hate in my heart does not mean I have not
moved on. On the contrary, it means I have moved on perfectly fine. I do
not need to come on the public spare shouting up and down that I am in a
relationship or posting another mans picture everywhere before people
realize that I have let the past go. Letting the past go does not mean
you cant speak about it. It doesn’t mean you can’t use it to advise
others. Speaking about your experience in life does not mean you are
dwelling on it. It doesn’t mean you are insecure, foolish, or you dont
know what you are doing. It simply means, you are wiser, and wisdom is a
lot of times earned via learning from experience.
I don dey talk long but to the initial point i wish to address, to
those who still believe I cheated on my ex. I am sorry to disappoint
you, I NEVER cheated on my ex hubby. Its not who I am, it will never be
who I am. Tell yourself 1 million times, Toni Payne cheated, it will
never make it true. Nobody caught me in any lie, or in any bad
situation, nobody slept with anyone he was close to. Yall need to put a
full stop to that bullshit. Its old!. Sometimes, men want their freedom,
and the fact is you cant force them to stay. Same goes for women.
Everyone wont have a perfect relationship, not everyone will stay
married forever, we can only aspire to. Even those that have been
married 10 years and are busy judging others, do you know your tomorrow?
naaaa you sure don’t so curb it abeg. We can only pray, work, and hope
for a good union.
Anyways To address this my ex said this or that issue. Let me just say
He has NEVER for once opened his mouth to accuse me of cheating. He has
NEVER for once opened his mouth to accuse me of sleeping with anyone he
knows. If awon alaiye baje wanna use our situation then to sell their
crap, how is that my fault? The same media controlling the remote to say
I think cheating is ok, are the same who controlled the remote back
then to say his song was about me. Nobody ever called him to verify or
ask before publishing. Ill admit that we both did not handle the
situation well back then, It was the first time we would experience
such. The tension was plenty and emotions were everywhere. We should
have sorted it privately. which we did try to do but one rubbish
headline and emotions go buckwild again.
I don’t wanna sound like I am defending him, cos he is responsible
for himself, but in all fairness to him, and because I have a conscience
that serves me well, not for once did he tweet, fb, email, interview
anything of the sort. Our issues had absolutely nothing to do with what
the media were speculating. People took a song he did and turned it
upside down. My crew MIXED AND MASTERED the song. If it was about me,
why would I allow him release it. God gave all of us sense naa.. Some
just chose not to use theirs and chose to believe anything they read
even when the facts are there to sort through. The only thing I have
blamed him for, was not coming out on time to refute the claims and
allowing it to escalate to that level, he has since apologized
SEVERALLY, we have discussed it privately as we should have from the
jump.
I have accepted and moved on. I have also apologized for losing my
cool on twitter, he has since accepted and moved on. Really, what more
is there. I am not sure what people want from me. Should I hate him
forever? Should I tie him to a post and flog him mercilessly? Should I
be a wicked person and deprive him of his son? If I remain bitter and
upset, please what value will it add to my life? Wo, my life is much
more simpler than all this. Those who know me well, know this.
Those
that dont understand me are the ones who will be forever outside looking
in, speculating crap. I am truly tired of this topic but since it seems
to keep popping up, i felt it is best to finally address it properly.
If anyone decides to hang on to the lie after this, that is their own
cup of tea. I have a talk show to record, poetry to write and a child to
raise. I don talk my own. FIN!.. If you catch any typos or errors..
take it like that. I wrote it as is…straight from the heart.. I know
most who carried the headline have no conscience and wont bother
appending but if anyone choses to take my post and misconstrue that one
too, I leave you to God.. no be chere kambia..Se Fini
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