Veteran Nollywood actress Patience Ozokwor has revealed in a recent interview with RTV,a Ghanaian TV that she got married at the age of 19 although it wasn't his decision but that of her parents.
The Evangelist said she was left with no choice than to accept the decision because she was not raised to disobey her parents.
She said:
"It was not my decision. And if it’s not my decision then I was forced into it. I did not see any reason my parents were
forcing me as I was still young. And even at that age I had so many suitors and
they just wanted me to get married. You
know when you come from a polygamous family and your mother is struggling for
her own daughters to get married and this other one is also struggling for her
own daughters to get married and when this one came around and I said no I
should make a choice. but I was not allowed to make that choice.'
They didn't give me that choice and at the end,
I had to obey my parents. I was not brought up
to disobey them at all."
When asked if she enjoyed the marriage, she
replied saying
"Sincerely speaking as a Christian I did
not."
Adding that he was once married to girl
who was arranged for him but the
marriage didn't work out.
"The girl was sent to London to meet
him but she got there and found out she
didn't like him so she decided to move
on with her life. So they didn't leave
together as husband and wife.
He waited till after he came back after
the war to come and marry me and
there was no reason for that."
Speaking further on her marriage, she revealed
that it wasn't easy at all for her as a young girl
"The marriage was not easy at all for me
as a young girl, it was not easy but when
you have two children and it is also not
in the culture of my parents for you to
jump from one man to another. I lost it
sometimes and I had make due with the
children God gave me that is why I am
very close to my parents.
When asked her view on marriage she said;
" It is an ordained thing by God and it should
be honoured. When a man and woman are
declared man and wife that is final, your plate
of food is out of your parents' house.
She further said that there are only two
reasons a person should leave their spouse
according to the bible, life and infidelity.
"If life is involved, God did not say don't
separate. God has standards and
christians must adhere to the standards
of God concerning marriage because
there are one or two things that a
husband and wife divorce otherwise it is
not coming from God. So it didn't come.
I didn't catch my husband cheating on
me and he didn't catch me so we had to
stay together until death parted us.
When he died, I became free, people
started coming for my hand in marriage
but I said no, it's already late"
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