Actor Emeka Ossai and his wife Jumai, accept opened up on aloof how acceptable God has been in their lives. The couple, anecdotal how they waited aloft the aristocrat for years afore they were assuredly adored with the bake-apple of the womb; twins.
Read their account below:
How continued accept you been married?
Jumai: We accept been calm for about 10 years now.
Where there oppositions to your alliance afore it took place?
Jumai: No, none.
So, what was the attraction?
Jumai: It was his categorical command of the English language. He is additionally intelligent. I would not abjure the looks too— he is a handsome man. The actuality that he has a lot in accepted with my father, who is a actual absolute person, endears him to me. Emeka is a actual cellophane person. He is additionally actual English in his behaviour. I adulation my ancestor dearly and affair him was a case of seeing him as my father.
Was he an amateur aback you met him?
Jumai: Yes he was an amateur but I didn’t know. I aloof admired what I saw and I capital to accumulate and own him! In the action of dating him, I got to apperceive he was an actor/producer and I enjoyed all the absorption we got whenever we went out.
But best women appetite to accept actors for keeps. How did you ‘catch’ him?
Jumai: Yes a lot of women appetite to accept men in the ball industry but the catechism is: do the men appetite to own the women? So, it’s not how I ‘caught’ him, it should be how did bolt me? I am not alarming my own trumpet but I am an asset, a abounding package, a ambition getter and I accept the best admirable affection in the world. On the home front, I am a acceptable wife ‘material’. Acquaint me, will any man in his appropriate senses let me go? I don’t anticipate so.
Where did you meet?
Jumai: We met at a friend’s babyish ablution in December 2006, he anachronous me for a year and we were affiliated in December 2007.
What is the acquaintance like actuality affiliated to an actor?
Jumai: Well, it is a admirable affair but aback you don’t accept kids, it doesn’t absolutely accompany out the best of both partners. In the beginning, it was adorable beatitude but aback the claiming became obvious, we started demography anniversary day as it came.
Emeka, what has alliance actuality like with Jumia?
Emeka: Alliance to her has been wonderful. We accept had our fair allotment of challenges, abnormally in our appropriate circumstance, but we accept affected with God’s help.
Is your wife arresting able-bodied with your agenda as an amateur and producer?
Emeka: My wife met me, anachronous me and affiliated me as an art practitioner. So, she is acclimatized to me and what my assignment entails.
Does your career affect your marriage?
Emeka: Yes, it does but actual positively. It has created a analytic acceptable assets beck for a able budget of my ancestors (laughs)
But during the challenge, as an African man, were there burden to ally addition else?
Emeka: Anxiety about accepting accouchement in a marriage, for bodies who admiration it, is not appropriate to African men or women. It is universal. I can say this absolutely with a account of experience. My mother was afraid but it was bidding absolutely by the akin of abutment and proactive accomplish she took with my wife to accomplish results. She was actual admiring of our abundant efforts to overcome.
Jumai, were there pressures on you?
Jumai: Surprisingly, for bristles years there was no burden from both families. Rather, we put the burden on ourselves because we both adulation kids and we capital them badly. In fact, my ancestor and my mother-in-law played a abundant role on the adventure to fruitfulness. They counselled and gave us all the affidavit why we should be patient. They aloof kept on acceptable us that the kids will appear but alone at God’s time.
So, how and aback did the babies come?
Jumai: In December 2011, I alleged my mother in-law and told her that she is the mother of my bedmate and I am his wife. So, we should bang off the year 2012 by praying and praising God actual well. This, I believe, would actuate fruitfulness. We did. We prayed calm and alike fasted 21 canicule with associates of Winners Chapel.
I additionally accepted God from midnight till 1.00am and I had my babies’ clothes in my easily (male and female). I had all the acclaim and adoration CDs in my house. In fact, you would anticipate I advertise them! I would accept added the 70 canicule adoration and abnegation of the Redeemed Christian Church of God but I was so weak! I aloof had acceptance that it was activity to appear that year. I knew God would acknowledgment me because I did those prayers and praises rigorously. I was expectant. Aback my ancestor clocked 70 years old, I begged God to let him see his grandchildren from me afore he dies. Indeed, God answered me and I acknowledge Him. Aback I activated absolute to the abundance analysis I went for, my bedmate and I cried.
Can you anamnesis the day you had your babies?
Jumai: We travelled to the United States to accept the babies and aback my bedmate alleged my ancestor from the theatre to acquaint him I was delivered of a set of twins— a boy and a girl, my ancestor cried profusely. Aback I asked him why he was crying, he said he was arrant for joy! At that point I looked at my bedmate and he was additionally crying. In fact, I had to put off the buzz because I didn’t appetite to cry too. They accustomed September 2012. Acknowledge God, we accept a altered adventure today.
Have you accept regretted marrying an actor?
Jumai: Never! I will ally him a actor times over and I will never barter him for annihilation in the apple not alike for a billion pounds!
Do added women affectation threats to your marriage?
Jumai: As I am now, the woman that will affectation threats to my home has not been born! It didn’t appear aback I was childless; so why should it appear now? He is too complex with us, he loves us too abundant and rushes aback home every day to comedy with the kids afore they sleep.
What will be your admonition to couples who accept your affectionate of challenge?
Jumai: I adjure that God will change their adventure the way he did ours. There is achievement as continued as you are alive. Let God be your focus.
Emeka: Adjure hard, accept in and delay on God as you assignment agilely to accomplish results
source: Stargist
