For 2026, I decided that I will read more books 📖on my Amazon Fire. My bookshelves are overflowing and I really need to slow down (not stop) buying books😄. We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship by Khadeen and Devale Ellis was a great choice 😍 I absolutely enjoyed this book and I have recommended it to all of my friends. Rating 5 / 5.
We Over Me was inspiring, thought-provoking, educational, insightful …. a great first addition to my Kindle bookshelf. The book takes us through the ups and downs of Khadeen and Devale’s relationship, their 20 year marriage and the times in-between where things were falling apart. We journey with them through university, to first jobs, to kids, and to more kids 👨👩👧👦, to fights, and breakups, to being broke…. and to achieving financial freedom 🤯.
I think this book is great if you are single, it will give you insight to what the realities of a marriage can look like (of course everyone’s relationship is not the same), if you are in a relationship or married, you can see that some struggles are not unique to you and your partner and there is sunlight after the rain. Overall, I think this is a great book for anyone, no matter your relationship status ❤️ ……you can learn something from their story.
FYI, this is a social media couple 🎥, they built their content creator careers from sharing their life stories online. However, I believe that their audience has grown so much as their brand seems to be built on authenticity and sharing their real struggles with the persons who view their channels.
Some of my favorite quotes from this book are:
Don’t spend your energy trying to live up to someone else’s Instagram posts.
Because let me tell you something about this thing called life and marriage: Shit is going to happen. If you don’t have the ability to give grace, be forgiving and be understanding, you ain’t never going to make it through.
Back in college, we would have the most fun just hanging out in my apartment, playing cards, getting food from the student cafeteria, and taking an occasional road trip when we had a long weekend. Now that we have four sons, our lives will never be that simple again. So we have to remind each other to go back to those basics when we fall off track.
Sometimes you can be so focused on preparing the best life for your kids that you don’t realize as a parent that you also have to create the best life for yourself. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and space.
You might be surprised to hear us say this, but we do not put our kids first. …. It wasn’t until Khadeen was pregnant with our second son, Kairo, that we understood that we had to shift the energy to who we were as a couple first so that we could be the best parents to our sons.
Have you read this book? What did you think? 😊
Much Love and happy reading,
Celly
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