By Olukayode Salako
Happy birthday to the woman, who has always lived for love; stood for the ideal sanctity of womanhood, and, the me, she believes absolutely in.
Thank you ‘Ibadiaran’ for standing solidly for the survival of our bond all through the 10 years, we have lived it; roughed it, and shall continue to progressively be gaining the divine essence bountifully together by His grace.
To us, marriage is beyond the way most humans see it, but in the essence of true friendship; companionship; ideal togetherness and absolute beliefs in one another.
We started out as socio-political project partners; then into compatible friendship and graciously later to inseparable life partners in a controversial marital bliss, which appeared like a joke to a lot of doubters and haters then.
But, today, we are proving it to the world that we meant it, when we said we were convinced about it. We are simply two people of strong character!
Our No! is No! Our Yes! is Yes!
It is now 10 years together, and, by God’s grace, His guidance and divine purpose for our lives shall continue to sustain it and manifest His glory in all that life still has bountifully in store for us.
Foluke Daramola-Salako is a woman in the peculiar nature of any daughter of the mother Eve from the ancient Garden of Eden, but who is not expected to be perfect as a wife. She has her buts, and likewise me, but to say she has a fantastic heart as a woman is an understatement.
I make bold to say that Foluke’s heart and her resolution to continue to be the wife under our marital vows are parts of the reasons, we have been able to do the first 10 years together.
My wife could be a very ‘tough’ one to imagine, but she is strong in character; highly principled, socio-personally disciplined; doggedly hardworking; straight forwardly bold; responsible, kind and humane to a fault.
When Foluke believes in it, she stands solidly by it. When she believes in you, she stands by you through the tick and the thin.
She has not been a perfect one in the marriage all through the 10-year period, and neither am I. Sometimes our natures; normal marital challenges and people’s expectations, tried so hard to break it, but our hearts, orientation, and the conviction we got, when we got into it, has kept sustaining it strongly well thus far.
In this marriage, we have been called all sorts of unprintabe names with a lot of ugly expectations, but our conviction and avowed resolutions to continue to run it and sustain it together has always kept us strong and well in the journey.
To those, who had/have always wanted it to break, we say ‘Thank you!’. Little did you know that your contributions and expectations are one of the reasons it has refused to break.
And, to those who have always wished the marriage well and good, we also say ‘Thank you!’, and I pray you will always experience ideal and progressive wellness in all your life endeavors as well.
We are two peculiar people. Our old-schoolly- inclined orientation as a people; ideal values of contentment in strong character virtues and conservative social nature are the hallmark of why this marriage has been working and faring well.
We are 10 years old today, and may the good Lord continue to guide our parts; aspirations and expectations as we journey on into the uncertainties of the next future.
Celebrity marriage could be very stressful and unassuming, but we have grown in it, to continue to live the way we have chosen to be in it.
Congratulations my dearest wife and happy 10th Anniversary to the two of us.
- Olukayode Salako posted this on his Facebook Timeline