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  • 55-year-old married man ‘threatens’ legal action on his 27-year-old girlfriend if he refuses to marry him

    55-year-old married man ‘threatens’ legal action on his 27-year-old girlfriend if he refuses to marry him

    A 27-year-old woman is embroiled in a legal dispute after refusing to become the second wife of a 55-year-old married man who has been financially supporting her.

    During an appearance on TV3’s “Confessions,” a tell-all program, the woman disclosed that her wealthy benefactor, who gives her a weekly allowance of GH¢ 1,500, has threatened legal action if she does not agree to his marriage proposal.

    Although the man, who is already married with children, professes to love her more than his wife and wishes to formalize their relationship, the woman disagrees.

    “I am with this guy, and we have been together for a year and a half now; he is the type of man who will not even wait for me to ask him for money. He gives me an allowance of GH¢ 1500 a week. He has rented an apartment for me and helped me open a business. He has even got me a car. I am living a comfortable life without stress when it comes to money.

    “But the issue is he is 55 years old and I am 27. He is married and his wife and kids live abroad. Now looking at how comfortable I have been my parents have been pressuring me to introduce them to my boyfriend but little did they know that this said boyfriend is their age mate.

    “I genuinely do not love him that much. I am just with him because he makes life easy. I get the money, and I live comfortably,” she said.

    Despite the financial perks, such as a rented apartment, a business, and a car, the woman hesitates to marry him because of their age difference and the potential ridicule from her friends and community.

    “He called me one day and said he wanted us to get married, but this is not what I signed up for. I thought we were just going to chill and have fun and spend some money; then, he would go back to his wife and kids. So, where is this marriage thing coming from?

    “He is telling me that he loves me more than his wife and wants to make me a second wife. look at his age, my friends will laugh at me.

    “He is saying that if I do not marry him, he is going to take me to court and demand everything he has been giving me since day one.”

    Rewu

  • Man allegedly burns woman for refusing to marry him

    Man allegedly burns woman for refusing to marry him

    A man named Abdullahi Idris has been arraigned in a Kano State Sharia court for allegedly setting his girlfriend, Sa’adatu Ibrahim, on fire after she rejected his marriage proposal.

    Idris, a resident of Rimi town in Sumaila LGA, Nigeria, had been dating Sa’adatu, a divorced woman, for just seven days before she declined his proposal.

    He faces charges of malice, arson, and attempted murder, to which he pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecutor Barrister Maryam Jubril requested a new date for his re-arraignment.

    The judge, Rakiya Lami Sani, ordered Idris to be remanded in prison and adjourned the case to September 16, 2024.

  • Eddie Nartey criticized for re-marrying two years after death of first wife

    Eddie Nartey criticized for re-marrying two years after death of first wife

    The recent marriage of Ghanaian actor and movie producer Eddie Nartey, has sparked reactions on social media.

    The actor has been criticised for moving on too quickly just after two years of the terrible death of his wife, Vida Obenewah Nartey.

    The actor and his new love married in a traditional ceremony on August 12, 2023, in the presence of numerous renowned celebrities and industry major names.

    Nonetheless, social media users have shown doubt regarding the recent marriage. Some are asserting that the timing of the union is too soon for such an event to take place.

    Furthermore, there are those who are inquiring whether the newly introduced lady had a presence in his life prior to his wife’s passing.

    Additionally, the matter of the appropriate duration for a widower to grieve his late wife before considering remarriage has also come to the forefront of the discussion.

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  • Don’t marry if you are jobless– Pastor to potential suitors

    Don’t marry if you are jobless– Pastor to potential suitors

    A Nigerian pastor, identified as Iniobong Obot, has cautioned men not to get married if they do not have a stable income,

    The clergyman made this known on Thursday, April 20, on his Facebook page.

    He advised men to focus on acquiring a sustainable job instead of getting married.

    According to him, a man who cannot provide for his family is worse than an infidel.

    “As a man if you don’t have something that is giving you daily or monthly income, At this point what you are looking for is not wife but work. Leave spiritual aside, understand what is priority in life, because a man who can’t provide for his own house is worst than infidel.”

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  • “Cryptic” response from Queen Elizabeth to Prince Harry when he requested permission to marry Meghan

    “Cryptic” response from Queen Elizabeth to Prince Harry when he requested permission to marry Meghan

    The Duke of Sussex claims in his memoir that Queen Elizabeth II’s response to his request for her approval to marry Meghan was “cryptic.”

    Prince Harry was unsure whether his grandmother was trying to tell him she wanted to refuse his request, was being sarcastic or playing word games.

    The Duke feared he was “doomed to be the next Margaret”, he writes, in reference to his great aunt, Princess Margaret, who was not allowed to marry the love of her life, divorcee Peter Townsend.

    The Duke recounts the moment he plucked up the courage to ask the Queen in his forthcoming book, Spare, which is officially published on Tuesday but was released early in Spain.

    He admits he was “scared” and always nervous in her presence. And the moment was made even more awkward when the Queen simply replied: “Well then I suppose I have to say yes.”

    Harry had no idea what she was saying.

    ‘She felt she had to say yes?’

    He writes: “She felt she had to say yes? Did that mean that she was saying yes, but wanted to say no?

    “I didn’t understand. Was she being sarcastic? Ironic? Deliberately cryptic? Was she allowing herself a bit of wordplay? I don’t remember my grandmother being a fan of wordplay and this would have been the strangest time to start being one (without mentioning tremendously inappropriate).”

    The Duke had earlier confided in his aides, Ed Lane Fox and Jason Knauf, that he wanted to propose but was told there were “strict rules” governing such things and that first and foremost, he would have to ask his grandmother.

    Harry suggests he was taken aback by the suggestion, asking if that was a “real rule”.

    “It didn’t make any sense,” he writes. “A grown man asking his grandmother for permission to marry.”

    However, he recalls the “absurdity” of his father, then 56, having to ask permission to marry the Queen Consort.

    The Duke picked an October 2017 family shooting trip at Sandringham to make his move.

    He opted not to tell Prince William of his plans because he had already warned him against it. “Too fast, too soon,” he is alleged to have said.

    Harry claims his brother was “pretty discouraging” about him dating an “American actress” at all, implying that her nationality and profession was akin to being a “convicted criminal”.

    Prince Harry claims his brother was 'discouraging' about him marrying an 'American actress' - KIRSTY O'CONNOR/AFP
    Prince Harry claims his brother was ‘discouraging’ about him marrying an ‘American actress’ – KIRSTY O’CONNOR/AFP

    On the day in question, he watched the late Queen drive a Range Rover into the middle of a field to look for dead birds, alone and with no security.

    “I tried to engage her in some light chat to loosen her up,” he writes.

    “The full seriousness of all this was finally starting to sink in.”

    The Duke muses over what would happen if his grandmother said no. Would he dare to disobey her or would he have to end his relationship with Meghan?

    “This moment was either the start of my life or the end,” he says. “It would all come down to the words I chose, how I delivered them and how granny heard them.”

    With a dead bird in each hand, he chased after the Queen as she approached her vehicle, surrounded by hunting dogs.

    “I needed to get to it without one more second of hesitation,” he writes.

    “I saw her waiting for me to speak, and not waiting patiently.

    “Her expression screamed: ‘Out with it.’”

    Agonisingly long pause

    He says: “Granny, you already know that I love Meg a lot, and I have decided that I’d like to ask her to marry me, and they’ve told me that… well…. I have to get your authorisation before asking for her hand.”

    She replies: “You have to do that?”

    “Yes,” he says. “That’s what your people have said and mine too.”

    The Duke reveals her expression was impenetrable during an agonisingly long pause.

    Eventually, she replies: “Well then I suppose I have to say yes.”

    He finally realises that she has given him permission to marry and “splutters” thank you.

    He was desperate to hug her, he says, but did not. Instead, he helped her into the vehicle and they made their way back to the rest of the family.

    Source: Yahoo

  • After bike accident, man in US wakes up thinking it’s 1993, asks wife to marry again

    A man who barely survived a motorbike accident in the United States last year woke up thinking it was 1993 and asked his wife to marry him again.

    Kristy and Andrew Mackenzie from Virginia nearly died in a motorcycle accident in June 2021 after a car skipped a red light and smashed into the pair. As per ABC 7, the couple was launched more than 50 feet across the street leaving the husband unconscious and in need of life-saving surgery. Following the accident, the pair was immediately airlifted to a nearby hospital as they suffered internal bleeding, punctured lungs and broken bones.

    But when Andrew woke up three days later in the hospital, he thought he was back in 1993. 29 years of his life had disappeared into thin air. Speaking to the outlet, Kristy said that he didn’t even recognise his own daughters, Lorelai Mentzer and Amanda Mackenzie.

    “He just immediately, it was, ‘Where’s my wife? Where’s my wife?’ And I think he thought I was working at the hospital,” Lorelai said.

    Andrew, on the other hand, told the outlet, “One of the first things I remember is Kristy in a wheelchair bedside trying to worry about me taking care of myself.”

    The family was given the devastating news from the doctors who were unable to confirm if Andrew’s memory would ever return. However, upon hearing the news, his wife convinced the hospital staff to put her husband in her room as she believed this would help aid his memory.

    “He started coming around asking me things and I was, like, amazed,” Kristy said, adding, “There were happy tears, and within 24 hours, he was a new person”.

    After spending 11 days in the hospital and extensive rehab, the couple was then able to walk. As per ABC 7, they even took a family beach vacation in August. During this trip, Andrew popped the question for a second time and the couple renewed their vows days later.

    “Luckily, she said yes. We’d already been married 37 years or whatever, and so it worked out,” Andrew said.

    Post a comment The 58-year-old, who doesn’t remember any of the accident, also added that his wife is the one person who got him through.

     

    Source: ndtv.com

  • Marrying an older man meant I became a widow at 34

    I admired my future husband from afar for a couple of years before we finally met at a horse show where we were both competitors. He had a great sense of humour, was a terrific horseman, and looked like Frank Sinatra. I was hooked.

    He was recently divorced and looking. Of course, I had been looking at him for a long time already. I was 20 and he was 45. I saw nothing but his smile. Neither the age difference nor the fact that he was two inches shorter than I am made any difference. T

    here was something about him that caught and held my attention. Perhaps it was the way he treated his horses…he talked baby talk to them and I loved it.

    Our first date followed that show.

    We put our horses away in their respective barns then he picked me up for dinner in his Rolls Royce. He was wealthy, but it made no difference to me. He could have been a starving, out-of-work cowboy; I didn’t care. It was love at first sight.

    Within a year, I was marrying an older man.

    We were married and continued our winning ways together.

    One of our horse trainer friends invited us to dinner one evening. The wife was older than I was but she, too, was many years younger than her husband. After eating, the men talked about horses and training while we girls sat in the kitchen over a cup of tea and talked about being married to men twice our age.

    She mentioned that although she loved her husband dearly, he was slowing down and she was still rearing to go. She warned me about what was to come. Aches, pains, and illnesses…she didn’t paint a pretty picture.

    Some years later my husband had a stroke. He was 58. Within the year, I found myself alone, running a ranch without my best friend and confidant. I was only 34. 

    Things that had been so routine suddenly seemed strange and out of place. I began to doubt my abilities in the show ring. I was no different, but my life certainly was. The vultures came out of nowhere, and I had no one to watch my back.

    I had to keep telling myself that although my partner was gone, I was still the same person, I held the same knowledge, and my talents were still as great as ever. Yet a part of me was missing. It was hard to function as a whole person.

    I had known for a year that his life was ebbing and he would be leaving me. I often thought of what would be worse: a knock at the door informing me that my husband had been killed in a car wreck or watching him slowly slip away, hour by hour, day after day.

    I was with him when he took his last breath. I felt as though it was mine. One second he was there and the next he was gone. We had said all there was to say between two people in love. Sharing the good times and the sad times, we relived our entire married life within a few days. Then he was gone.

    I missed hearing him in the barn, talking to the horses. I expected him to walk around the corner any second to ask me a question or ask for my help. Instead, there was only silence. Day after lonely day … silence.

    I no longer had the desire to go to the shows, let alone win. I questioned what would happen to me. I wanted to shrivel up and die with him. My life as I had known it was over.

    My saving grace was running into the woman that had long ago warned me about what I was in for by marrying a much older man. She too had lost her husband.

    She had continued running their ranch after her husband’s death. I figured that if she could make it, so could I. I asked her to tell me the steps to dealing with the pain and the emptiness. She shared her grieving process with me, advising me to continue my life as it had been before he died. It helped, but still, the pain and numbness remained.

    Slowly, I dug into my horse business again, realizing that my late husband wouldn’t be happy if I quit and walked away from what we had built. I started showing again…and winning. With each blue ribbon, I’d raise it in the ring as though showing it to my love. I could feel his approval and could picture that ice-melting smile.

    Over time I realized that he wasn’t “gone,” he was just in a different form. I can still feel his presence at times. Love never dies — not even death can end it.

    Before he died, he told me to remarry and live happily; I was too young to be single and alone. It took a couple of years to get to know myself again before finding my current husband. He, too, is perfect for me. We’re a match made in Heaven if you know what I mean.

    Source: yourtango.com