IS LOVE A DANGEROUS GAME?

The social media has been buzzing with domestic violence issues for a while now especially with the latest news of the death of one Ronke Shonde who allegedly was killed by her husband.

The week before, even though nobody died, it was about Tiwa Savage and Tee Billz. The rate at which marital issues keep buzzing on air and around the space, one would think there are no longer sane or peaceful relationships between couples anywhere, anymore.

 

Away from the domestic brouhaha!  While a lot of couples are killing each other or attempting suicide in some part of the world, some other persons are celebrating life for the little blessings they have counted worthy to celebrate.

It’s no longer news that handsome 35 year old Hollywood act Ryan Gosling and 42 year old Eva Mendes only just had an addition of a beautiful baby girl, into their family and the actor is every way still excited on the arrival of the baby.

The already named baby girl, Amada Lee Gosling, arrived on Friday the 29^th of April at 8.03am in Santa Monica, California thus giving their first child Esmeralda Amada who is already a year and twelve months old, a baby sister.

In an interview with PEOPLE, Gosling was quoted saying “It sounds so clichéd, but I never knew that life could be this fun and this great” depicting the picture of a very proud and happy father.

It is expected that Gosling who started dating Mendes sometime in 2011 would continue to keep their new addition out of public eye just as they have done with Esmeralda whom someone had told PEOPLE that Gosling was “madly in love” with, so there are no doubts that the same kind of love would be meted out to newly born Amada Lee Gosling.

In all of these excitements, Mendes sure loves her life at the moment as one of the latest celebrity mums all over again even as congratulatory messages are still going out to the couple.

It would be recalled that Gosling had earlier in an interview with Hello! Said “I know that I’m with the person I’m supposed to be with.”

How nice is the sound of that? Isn’t life beautiful? *winks*.

Honestly speaking, love shouldn’t really hurt. Couples should take a cue from this simple family and celebrate the little beautiful things and moments in their homes instead of fighting and killing each other in the process.

Nevertheless, if and only if you can’t stand the heat anymore, I guess just like Kenny Rogers sang “you’ve got to know when to hold on, when to walk away or when to run”. It’s better than someone dying in the process.

Enough of all these domestic violence. It’s time to stop the madness.

Basketmouth And His Basket Of 'Lovelies' To Wife Elsie

Basketmouth and Wife, Elsie

While a lot of celebrities are busy having a war of words on social media and packing up the remains of their troubled marriages which at one time or the other were highly celebrated as 'heaven-made-on-earth' kind of marriages, Nigerian Comedian Bright Okpocha who is popularly known as Basketmouth was busy celebrating his wife Elsie Uzoma Okpocha as they marked their fifth year wedding anniversary.

On Wednesday the 28th of October 2015, Basketmouth sent a lovely message to his wife thanking her for being a source of blessing to him and for giving him a beautiful family. His exact words were " “Elsie, thank you for letting me come into your life, for giving me a beautiful family, for blessing me with your love, affection and care. Happy wedding anniversary.” Hmmm! How lovely!!

Basket and Wife on their wedding day

You sure agree with me that those are heartfelt words from an appreciative husband who no doubts has been having a blissfully peaceful marriage, isn't it? For me, that equals or even more than a basket of tangible 'lovelies' any day. Yeah, sometimes, words are just ENOUGH! I meant SOMETIMES!! Okay?

Now I know a lot of people would give me 'the eye' if I stood right in front of them at this very moment with expressions or statements such as "it's not the first time, we've heard this before, tomorrow now they will start fighting, give them another five years, they are just starting, blah blah blah, and many more pessimistic statements.

I understand to a large extent why some people would make such remarks because nearly 80% of celebrities who have praised/eulogise their spouses in interviews and on social media platforms in the past and even very recently, have turned around to say the opposites when the tides change.

However, for Basketmouth and his wife, I perceive that at the rate they are going, we may have more 'Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva's' kind of marriages reenacted in the marriages of younger couples such as Basketmouth's. I bet you'll all agree with me on that, wouldn't you? *winks*
 
Now (while pondering)  speaking of Uncle' Olu Jacobs and 'Aunty' Joke's stable marriage of many years, I would suggest they start a school on "how to sustain your marriage". We CANNOT rule out the fact that they have their own share of marital issues at one point or the other, but at least they've being able to resolve and sustain their marriage without sending themselves to the 'cleaners' at any time by taking their problems to social media for their fans to take sides. I'm sure there's a lot to learn from that couple.

Before you go on to ask if this (Olu and Joke) is the best couple around, let me beat you to it by saying "NO". We've got many more great couples around (celebrities and others like my parents) but I deemed it fit to use this very popular celebrity couple who have really touched lives in many ways than you can count just by being TOGETHER  and strong all these years and most importantly because this article is focused on marriages of celebrities.

Before I sign out, I would like to get back to what inspired this topic by wishing Basketmouth and his lovely wife a HAPPY anniversary and many more beautiful years ahead TOGETHER hoping that in the next forty five years when they celebrate fifty years together, we will all be there to say 'WELL DONE'!