Legendary Nollywood actress, Patience Ozokwor has opened up on
her marriage to her late husband.
Speaking to RTV, Patience Ozokwor revealed that she
was forced into marraige by her parents age 19, and
wasn’t giving any choice as she couldn’t disobey them
because she wasn’t brought up in that manner.
“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”
Patience Ozokwor also said she couldn’t remarry
because of the foundation she had, the kind of home
training and because of her stand in christianity.

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