By Ehichioya Steve Odion
It was a joyful outing yesterday for Mr. & Mrs Paul Okoruwa in Benin City as they garthered their relations, friends, associates and well wishers to celebrate their 25th fruitful years of wedding anniversary in grand style.
Some of the guests made beautiful remarks about the couple, describing them as exemplary family worthy of emulation, stressing that they have lived together in love and harmony without bitterness.
They wished them more blissful years of marriage and advised them to sustain the cordiality which has been the strength of their union.
Earlier in an interview with The Groove Watch News crew, the celebrant Mr. Paul Oswald Okoruwa described his Marital journey as a lovely and fruitful one.
"It is 25 years in my Marital journey. It has really been good. But you also know that people just look at the number of years you have spent. They may not want to know what may have transpired within the period. However, you also have to talk about the good times you spent together. The love that will grow with time. The unexpected things that could happen within the period".
Continuing, Okoduwa said, "Your ability to be able to bear some certain things that may come your way, uncertainties and you can not be sure of what may happen next. You have to be very resilience in handling your emotions. These are some of the things that have kept us going. It has been a joyful marriage all along. Overall, I'm grateful to God that we are alive and blessed with children who are doing very well in school. I don't think I can ask for more".
Okoruwa recalled that he has actually spent 35 years with his lovely wife having dated for 10 years before they got married 25 years ago.
He described his sweet heart as nice, kind and lovely. "My wife attends to me quickly when she sees that I'm not in a good mood. She wants to know what is wrong. She takes care of the home and she is very much involved in home affairs. We encourage each other to grow. When you see the behaviour of my children you will appreciate my wife. They were brought up in a special way. All these are virtues from her with my support".
On her part, Mrs Itohan Kate Okoruwa said herself and her husband actually grew up from different backgrounds. My husband is an Esan man while I'm a Benin woman. With time we were able to understand each other. My husband likes music and social outing with friends and associates. Although I was not initially good in social outings, but I have since taken over from him in that aspect. What that means is that he was the one that polished my social life to the level it is today".
Mrs. Okoruwa said she and her husband have shared love, togetherness, built home together on the solid foundation of God Almighty.
"Today I remember my late mother because she was alive 25 years ago. But when we were preparing for this event, I remembered that she was no longer with me. I broke down in tears because when I look around I could not see my mother. I had a reflection on how we lived and stayed together while she was alive. So, it's good we appreciate God", she concluded.
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