From the simplest things like choosing what to eat for lunch to those life changing decisions like who to tie the knot with, one way or another our decisions define how we live.
Why do people date? It’s to find out if the person they’re interested in would be a compatible partner for marriage. But what happens when you skip the dating stage completely? You end up with stories like that of Charles Ajorgbor’s. Thankfully, there’s a happy ending to the story.
“It was the same story over and over again — I witnessed one breakup after another in my family. They simply couldn’t keep it together. Not one of them was ever happy in their love lives! No one could keep a relationship and my parents were the worst of them all! They fought every day.
According to the Daily Mail, ‘Britain has the highest divorce rate in the EU’*. But why do couples get divorced? There are many factors that contribute to the breakdown of a marriage, and it seems that money is always near the top of the list, if not right at the top. Now if we look to Aline’s story, as we will see below, she had to face both of these issues in her relationship.
I decided to leave everything behind in my hometown to start a brand new life with my husband in the UK but I had nothing. No job, no place to call my own and it was a complete shame!
Boy meets girl. Girl doesn’t like boy. But skip the middle part of the story and boy and girl end up getting married. Isn’t it romantic? This is Milenna’s story in a nutshell, but below she goes into greater detail of how she became Mrs Thompson today.
“The start of my marriage was heaven. My husband and I were united and would do everything together. We couldn’t live without each other, but slowly things began to change. My husband started exchanging time with our family to be with other family members and friends. They would go out to clubs and bars and would allow him to come home drunk at late hours of the night. This was not the man I married! Where was my ‘happily ever after’?
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