Ace Nigerian rapper, MI Abaga, has opened up about the struggles of being unmarried at the age of 37, while his friends and peers have settled down.
Naijaonpoint reports that MI Abaga, during an interview on the Jay On Air Podcast, said he had earlier regretted not getting married like his friends, who did so in their mid-to-late twenties and are now raising teenagers.
According to the ‘Bad Bello’ crooner, his outlook changed dramatically when he met his wife just before turning 40, shortly after ending a previous relationship.
MI Abaga further stated that the journey to marriage taught him that everyone has their unique timeline, and that being ready is crucial for a successful relationship.
He said, “I felt a little bad about being unmarried when I was 37 because my friend who got married at 25,26 now have 14 year old kids. I have friends who have kids who are going off to college now and some of them who didn’t marry had kids early. Jesse has a 21 year old child and I don’t have any kids of my own yet so you miss out on some of that.
“No complaints because I got the opportunity to meet this beautiful woman who I’m married to now and I really see some Providence In that. At the end of the day, when you’re not ready you’re not ready. Everybody’s timeline is different and this is something that is lost in humanity today.
“Within my timeline, It just so happened that I had left a relationship around age 39 and met my wife around 40. She was there at my 40th birthday, at that point I was ready, so I asked her to marry me, we got married when I was 41”.
Reflecting on his past relationships, MI Abaga expressed appreciation for the kind-hearted women he had encountered, adding that his immaturity and stubbornness ended the affair.
He said, “I have sadness when I think about how I was in my former relationships. I met a lot of kind women in my life who were supportive to me. I just wasn’t mature and I was stubborn.”
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