He proposed!!.

I woke up that morning, feeling so tired and stressed out due to the level of work my body got engaged in, the previous day.

Just between; struggling with an opened and closed eyes, my phone rang. I looked at the caller's ID and a curvy smile formed on my face. I picked it.

Him: Goodmorning Princess, I figured you'd be awake. Hope you slept well?

Me: Awwn, so thoughtful of you to call me this early, I did sleep well and you?

Him: Oh yes darling, I did...

You know what readers?. Let's scrap that and delve right in.

The story.

Destiny and I, have been together for five years; ever since I graduated from the University of Ibadan. We actually met for the very first time on my sign out day, and ever since then, our admiration for each other grew each passing day.

Destiny called me unusually today to ask me out on a fancy dinner date with him. He clearly stated that I should dress in my best outfit...

Best outfit... Whoosh! Oh! I could only imagine how lovely tonight would be. I immediately called my close friends, we went to the mall to pick up a dress, I preferably love color blue, there's this sparkle it gives whenever I put it on. So then, blue it was. I was so ecstatic at the feeling of what plans Destiny had. I had a gut feeling that he was going to propose...

Let's hear what Destiny has to say.

Destiny:

She's is all I want in a woman, she's a good cook, she's smart and hardworking, she's respectful, she's curvy. oh! I love her smiles, she's intelligent, she's a really good housekeeper, she's very neat and one thing I love the most about her Is that: Imelda can never be caught unfresh.

Oh! Buddy, she's my real kind of woman, my spec, extremely gorgeous, she's all I ever want in a woman, I love and want to spend the rest of me with her.

Here's what I have to say.

Me:

Destiny Is all I want in a man, he's sweet, loving, caring, he's so handsome, he's a good listener, he's calm and he's always there to hear me out, he calls Everytime, he never fails to tell me his whereabouts as the clock ticks, he's neat, he's a good cook, he's hardworking, he's smart, he tells me everything and isn't secretive, he doesn't keep late nights,he understands all my love languages...

Oh!, Gosh! Destiny is just so perfect. I love him, I really do and oh yes! I'm ready to spend the rest of me with him, he's all I ever wanted in a man.

Just as predicted. Destiny asked the question during the dinner date.

Destiny: Would you marry me?

Me: (giggling in excitment) Oh Destiny, I desperately would!

Me: (Aside) who wouldn't marry Destiny? Oh! I'd be cursed a fool if I had declined.

We are married!

The best day of my life was finally here, oh, the joy, the gladness that filled my heart as I walked down the aisle with the one I chose to spend my "forever" with, this was indeed the best day of my life...

Our wedding night, oh! You don't say, it was all I envisaged, from the beginning to the end of it, all of it...all of it.

It was all sweet and lovely during the first and the second month, I loved and cherished every bit of it, from the morning kisses to the goodnight kisses, from breakfast in bed to seeing a movie together. I guess I was still trying to adapt and he was also trying to adapt to living with the love of his life. We were all loved up in a teenage kind of way. I was still looking like his spec and he was still looking like mine. I felt so much heat in my head, but still never took off my wig.

Then one day, he was shocked to the extreme and that was because I finally decided to feel at home.

Destiny: (wakes up, wanting to give a morning kiss and looks at me, suddenly gets shocked by what he sees, jumps up abruptly and screams) What!!! Imelda!!, What is this? Where the hell is your hair?

Me: (yawns from sleep) Oh, Goodmorning honey, hope you slept well?

Destiny: Oh! There's nothing good about this morning, where's your goddam hair?

Me: (surprised) oh! You mean my wig?

Destiny: I don't care about what it's called, but where's the hair I have always seen on you?

Me: (sighs) common honey, stop making a fuss out of it, I'll put it on after I take a shower okay...

Destiny: (disgusted) this is not the lady I married, you had better get that wig on, before I get back (he walks out of the room)...

And that day marked the beginning of it all...

All I saw when we were dating was what Destiny showed to me, and I guess all he saw was what I showed him.

Ever since that fateful day, Destiny suddenly changed, breakfast in bed stopped, goodmorning and goodnight kisses stopped, seeing movies together suddenly became obsolete. Everything just changed.

I suddenly felt like going back home, I suddenly missed my single life, I suddenly wanted to be out of his life.

I just couldn't be natural anymore, it seems Destiny preferred me; being artificial, he doesn't like me when I'm not on makeups, he detests me whenever my wig is off, he always wants to see me in skimpy dresses and worst still: "Destiny wasn't ready to have a child, even after two years of being married to him."

Destiny:

She suddenly changed, I thought she was neat and respectful, but these days, she leaves the house unkempt sometimes, she nags alot.

Infact, there was a time, Imelda urinated in the toilet and forgot to flush... Who the hell does that?.

Oh! No! I was completely and totally wrong, getting married to her was definitely the biggest mistake I'll surely regret for a lifetime.

Me:

Destiny suddenly changed, I don't know why he gets so upset with me over trivial things, this is definitely not the man I married, no, he can't be the one... He suddenly started keeping late nights.

Things he never did when we were courting, are the things he does often. I'm tired, I'm tired of this bondage called marriage. Which kind of man wouldn't want to have a child till after six years of marriage? I mean who does that?

Okay see, the other day, I forgot to flush the toilet, he came out and started nagging, he even went as far as calling me a pig, for heaven's sake; a pig!!!. Now, what stopped him from just helping me out to actually flush, huh, tell me. He doesn't give me breakfast in bed anymore.

Guess what, at times... Destiny won't even sleep on our matrimonial bed, he'll sleep in the guest room.

Where did I go wrong? Do tell? We've slept so many times harboring malice in our hearts.

I'm tired! Ah! Oti sunmi!. I don't want anymore, if this is what marriage looks like, then it's definitely not for me.

Sighs...

If you ask me, well I think Destiny and Imelda got it all wrong from the beginning, they both had a wrong concept of marriage, they forgot that "worse" and only remembered the "better."

There's more to marriage, than cuddles and kisses, in marriage, there'll be disagreements, tantrums, there'll be times to go on your kneels and pray, interceding massively for your family, they'll be times when you'll need to sit together and communicate your flaws to eachother.

Love is blind, but marriage would open your eyes.

Pastor Adeboye

Great relationships isn't when a perfect couple comes together, but when an imperfect couple learns to respect and enjoy each other's differences.

Coined from a movie the writer watched.

Disclaimer: This story is fictional and just a figment of the writer's imagination.

Till we meet again in my next article and in yours.

Thanks for reading.