Why my marriage crashed - Kaffy
By Yewande Fasan Popular dancer Kaffy Shafau has said her marriage ended due to her limited understanding of what marriage truly entails. Speaking during an interview with media personality Chude
By Yewande Fasan
Popular dancer Kaffy Shafau has said her marriage ended due to her limited understanding of what marriage truly entails.
Speaking during an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Kaffy noted that many people, including herself, go into marriage without adequate preparation or proper guidance.
Kaffy, who was married to Joseph Ameh from June 2012 until their divorce in January 2022, stressed the need for a more structured approach to marriage.
She recommended that intending couples undergo counselling, mental evaluations, and a year-long programme focused on human behavioural sciences before tying the knot.
She further expressed concern that obtaining a marriage certificate is currently easier than acquiring a driver’s licence, despite the far-reaching impact marriage has on individuals and society.
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She said, “I was not educated enough for marriage and a lot of us aren’t, our parents are not preparing us enough, living through their eyes is not enough education about marriage.
“It is a special course that needs to be taken, we can’t have a society that issues you marriage certificate easier than drivers license like it’s harder to get the drivers license but it’s much easier to get a marriage certificate but it’s inside this home that all the ills of the society are being built.
“There’s a lot of mental health situations and assessments that needs to go on.Its not only counselling that they should do. They should do mental evaluation of the couple.
“It should be a mandatory requirement that drug test, mental evaluation, couples therapy, all of these things, there need to be a one year programme of human behavioural sciences that they need to go before two people come and damage another human being that they would bring to life”.
