Joe's True Love

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I was looking at a top politician recently and was terrified by the way he looks. I pray God forgives me for saying that His creature is ugly because Christianity teaches me that everything God made is good. This man being God’s creature is good because he is complete however, he is FEARFULLY made!

Then coming to his personal life, this man who is a former governor is married to very beautiful young lady who he is over two decades older than. Ever since they got married, I have been asking myself if the beautiful lady married the former governor for love.

Do women marry for love these days? With what I see in recent times, the answer for me is ‘No’. in recent times, young ladies are looking for the easiest way out of poverty or the average life. Our society has made it almost impossible for the youth to settle for less. Everyone wants to live in a big house, drive the nicest cars and travel the world.

The fake life on social media is unbelievable, while some have made the social media a place to breathe a little away from the real issues, others have made a deliberate space to deceive others into believing their lies.

No one can convince me that the marriage between the former governor and the young was out of love from both sides. Strip the lady of her beauty and the former governor would not have noticed her and strip the man of his wealth the lady would run as far as her legs can carry her.

Somi is about to get married to Joe who is the first son of a very wealthy family, he is a chronic womanizer but has been given an ultimatum by his parents to settle down. Presently two ladies claim to have been made pregnant by him.

Somi is miserable but she is seriously planning her wedding and her friends are all excited for her and wish they were in her shoes. All they see is the new SUV that Joe gifted Somi when she accepted his proposal. Somi knows that aside from the external punanies, Joe has an internal one; Cheta, Joe’s father’s driver’s daughter is the unrefined beautiful internal punani.

Joe pays her school fees, it is an open secret every one pretends not to know of. Somi knows that it will always be there, Joe did not deny it when she confronted him, neither did he admit to it. She had the chance to end the relationship but too many people will be hurt especially her mother who has sold over three hundred pieces of asoebi and spent millions in souvenir and her own clothes; she would change her clothes every time her daughter changed hers.

Somi knows that she will suffer a lot of lonely nights and be miserable for days in her marriage for sometime but she is willing to give it a try and fight it out somehow. Her mother told her that her own husband, Somi’s father was an alcoholic and a chronic womanizer but she stood by him till he beat his addictions. 

She advised her daughter to stay, win her husband over and build her home. That advice sounds very familiar; almost every Nigerian young wife has heard such from her mother.

Joe is able to provide everything that she needs and Somi is sure that she will never have to bother one day how her family will cope. Her friends and her family think she is the luckiest girl on earth to be getting married to Joe. The harsh reality is that if Somi decides to leave Joe, Joe will get any kind of girl he wants including Somi’s friends.

Somi’s wedding is coming up and I know that she will be walking down the aisle on that day not because she is in love but because she needs to get married and marry well at that.

I hope she is strong enough to stay and fight it out. I wonder what she will do about Cheta who for all you know could be Joe’s true love.