I was up far too late, just realized several typos, but the one you highlighted I had to fix ASAP. Instead of dried store I meant to say "dried goods store," but even that's not correct. Non-perishable goods is the word I was searching for at 4am, so much English vocab is no longer in my brain. I am still working on finding time for sleep, but the last few months my wife has been sleeping 10 hours a night and spending half the day in bed. This isn't abnormal within our history, but it's now been so many years that it' s beginning to affect my health as well because I can't work full time and also be a full-time house husband.

I really want to get her to a physician and a therapist to see what's going, but she refuses my help, leaving us in this unsustainable situation. If my health goes down there will be nobody left to take care of the family.
It's been like this for at least 4-5 years, seems impossible to to anything to do make things better, so I am hoping and praying for a caregiver/renter to walk into our lives. Thanks for thinking of me knappe man, it's a great morale booster 🙏🙏🙏.

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She was our next door neighbor's cat, but just after she was weaned her mother was killed by dogs. I sense our neighbor never took care of the kitties, so without momma around I assume the whole litter is dead minus Meow. On one of her first exploratory visits to our house she brought a similar looking male kitty with her, but it wouldn't come inside and we never saw it again. I think Meow might be a sole survivor.

Perhaps next time I visit the store I will recommend the owner put some condoms in between the virgin and real man soap 🤣. It looks like Nutsara is here to stay in our village with her grandma because her mom has failed in raising her, said she is unable to control her. With us she is well-behaved because we interact with her and don't give her a smartphone to play with 24/7.

The genocide in the 1970s still affects the country very much today. The perpetrators never said sorry and never faced any criminal charges, and now the country is full of PTSD and has never worked through the problems of the past. I have studied the Rwandan genocide a bit, and I like that there were village tribunals set up for villagers to confront the killers, I think this helped process the trauma and allowed people to heal some deep wounds.

All the hygiene products here are full of chemicals, especially soaps and shampoos. Every time I visit the USA I buy kilos of shea butter, cocoa butter, and black soap imported from Ghana, and these are the only products I require to look fresh, clean, and handsome 😄.

Thanks for stopping by with a very thoughtful comment, best one I've read in a long time. Are you Nigerian by the way? It seems most Africans on Hive are Nigerians, I assume because it's the most tech-savvy country there. There are lots of Nigerians here in Cambodia teaching English and playing football. Even when my family and I were stranded in Suriname for three years, our next-door neighbors were Nigerians that once lived in Cambodia, the world is smaller than we realize.

Our laser is still new-ish, so Meow hasn't quite figured that out yet. However, she has realized the source of the laser is the red thing in my hand, and half of the time she will lunge at my hand instead of the light on the ground or wall. Dogs and cats seem to have little self control with certain things, a laser being one of them, so cheers for not destroying doggy knees. I like using the laser pointer to highlight "wall meat," Meow's #1 source of protein.