Relationships: Soulmates or Cellmates:

Relationships can be easy or difficult, depending on the type. There are times when there are people who make us feel they are supposed to be in our lives or people who make you feel like you've been sentenced to a life term in prison. Relationships can be that way, especially if we keep using the same formula to pick toxic people. This book is an honest, expressive, and satirical approach to examining personal relationships that taught valuable lessons about how to find those that accentuate versus steal the life from you. As an educator by trade, I often live in a conundrum of sorts. You always have to be "perfect" and speak a certain kind of way, especially as a black person—don't want to appear angry in public. This book code switches and allows for the freedom to use expletives and slang to discuss 13-points regarding relationships: good or bad. After 15-years of marriage to a culturally different woman, I've gained context about relationships. I didn't know a damn thing in my 20s, and life quickly taught that the past has a way of determining the future more than imaginable This is a break from all scholarly, education-related writing to discuss relationships, so they feel less like a prison sentence, especially when the 50s come. It's true what they say, as you get older, the less politically correct and patient you become.