Nigerian media personality and founder of Diary Of a Naija Girl, Ifedayo Agoro, popularly known as Ife has opened up about why she broke off her engagement just two months before the wedding.
While replying to a post on X about people normalizing breaking off engagements if doubts set in, Ife recalled a similar experience she had in the past and how she had to call the wedding off when she realised she was getting married for the wrong reasons.
“Broke off my engagement two months to the wedding. Hall paid for, popular comedian paid for. Part payment for popular musician paid for. Vera Wang wedding dress paid for”, the Diary Of a Naija Girl founder wrote.
“Broke things off without thinking of all that and returned everybody’s asoebi money. I was getting married for the wrong reasons and I just couldn’t continue. I made one of the best decisions of my life”.
Further emphasising that it was a difficult moment in her life, she insisted that she had to take the bold step, seeing as things could end badly.
When a fan asked what the perceived wrong reasons were, Ife replied, “Because I was going to clock 30 and I don’t know who put it in my head that I had to be married at that time or it would be socially unacceptable to be unmarried at 30”.
“When I complained to an older friend that it didn’t seem right because not only was I not in love but I had no rest in my spirit, she said I’d fall in love inside the marriage but to never let 30 pass me by. So I stayed, despite the fact that he was a pathological liar and extremely untrustworthy”, she concluded