By Bunmi Sofola
It’s the dream of most women to get married to a man whose chemistry works well with hers. She’s dreamt of the magic of her wedding day for years. And now the day is here, would she be stepping into her worst nightmare? “As I walked down the aisle towards the man I was about to marry,” recalled 36-year-old Rolake an IT consultant. “I could see my mother on our side of the church earmarked for the bride’s family wearing earring matching expensive aso-ebi designed for my wedding. A sea of faces smiled at me, wishing me luck and dancing as if they were as much responsible as my immediate family for this spectacular wedding.
“All I felt were huge palpitations in my heart. I felt I could be somewhere else but this church where everyone had come to wish me joy in my marriage. The dreadful truth was that even though I was about to make my vows, I knew I didn’t love this man ahead of me at the altar in spite of the fact that moments from…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper