If you suggest HIV testing to your partner (talking stage) and they give even a hint of resistance, just know they already know their result. Positive people will rarely spill their status voluntarily, and they will avoid by all means to get tested!
Grew up an academic maverick, had an upshooting career in STEM. Basically smashed goals by 25. Got married at 30 and immediately lost my job. Lost savings trying to migrate but Trump happened. I couldn land a steady job and things kept nosediving. At some point I became scared to pray, felt like it makes things worse. Now back home, and restarting. Funny but sometimes during the day I genuinely wish dai zuva rachidoka ndarara ndozozviona mangwana. I do not know why God chose this as the perfect timing to be jobless for me, but wow it’s been a journey. I had never suffered before and I was one of those people who would say depression chirwere chema vet. It is real and it’s a battle fighting it every single day. Many nights I am up husiku hwese trying to retrace what went wrong and what can be my next possible move. Hope to win soon and rise up.
A part of me is convinced humiliation rituals exist, even in Zimbabwe. By definition humiliation rituals being things people do before they can elevate to a higher level. John Cena running up naked on stage during an Oscars night, or celebrities wearing dresses, Baba Harare briefly converting before reverting. Or Some of the things Holy ten does. The list is endless