By popular demand😁
Na you ask for am. It is a long one. You know me and my threads.
I come from the city where our parents always like us to marry from our hometown. Ilu to jina sina, to sunmo alijana (The city that is far from hell but close to heaven).
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I was a happy go lucky girl that liked to cook for everyone in school. Almost all the guys in my class had eaten in my house.
Shortly after we finished housejob, I got a call from someone we went to primary school together (a year ahead of me in school) who just called me out of the blues. Let's call him Mr. A.
Someone else introduced me to another person called Mr. B. He wanted to have a relationship with me right from the start. But he didn't have any of the qualities.....
He officially asked me out the next day and that was just about two weeks after talking. A relationship was the last thing on my mind and I wanted to explore in the dating game 😁. For where?
Mr. A was still doing friendship.
By the time he came in one month to my home in Ibadan, this man called TJ was so comfy
I used the 80/20 rule of relationships to make up my mind about him.
I knew that I really liked him but I wasn't ready for marriage. Mr. A was still asking me out but I didn't see the possibility of him as more than a friend anymore.
By 6 months, TJ proposed. I actually said "No..don't do this" when I first saw the box.
The advocacy and health education I started to do on Twitter was because of him and my friend @adesoji45 .They both felt Twitter was a better platform than Facebook (where I had been writing and teaching for years)for me and that people
Someone asked a question once about how much you can compromise in your relationship on a scale of 1 to 10. I said 9.5.The remaining 0.5 is just for me because it is necessary to always have your own identity.
And most importantly, our families are like one. I love his family as much as he loves mine. I was a wreck when my MIL died. She would always pray for me, cook, buy me gifts. There was a time she made me a big pot of stew.
Although I still feel like giving him pankere at times (same way I'm sure he feels like giving me too as per Iya Taoo that I am), we have our fights and highs and lows....I know that we both chose well.
In friendships and relationships, I don't know how to do half measures. I'm an all or none kind of person. There is no other way to love for me....but with all my heart. What is love, if not done wholeheartedly and with reckless abandon?
Mr. A is doing well and we catch up at times. Married with two children too😁
Which of the favors of my Lord will I deny? Absolutely none!
I would never have written this normally but I decided to, so people know that it is not all bad. It has been over 8 years of marriage and I am grateful for all the blessings in it.
One of the most important decisions you have to make in your life
Aye yii o le, awa omo adamo la s'aye d'ogun.
On a lighter note, both our parents prayers were answered. Down to our great great grandparents are all from Ilorin....Just by a stroke of luck.
I love to hear love stories!
P.S...the first pic of me was the one TJ saw first time ever. Do you recognize the ward?😁
Here's a picture of us now.
See him looking at me like today's ah-ge-ge bread. Fine geh😁😂
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He reminded me of some things I left out. Maybe this would have become a novel😁
@teejayrious Baba Taoo.