VENO NEWS:My Genotype is AS, My Wife’s Genotype is AS. Still, We Got Married. Date: 30-11-23
Sola and I have waited for 6 years to share this part of our story. Now that the story is complete, we are excited to share our walk of faith with the world.
I met Her Royal Sweetness in September 2012. We swiftly became friends and nurtured an amazing friendship for one year. We became so fond of each other that our friends knew that it was just a matter of time and we would become “more than friends”.
Then, one of our friends, Ada Ichoja Ohaba had information both of us didn’t have at the time. She knew we were both AS (we both knew our individual genotypes but hadn’t gotten round to asking each other). She said to me, “Chris, shey you know say Sola na AS? Because the way I dey see una two, na relationship be the next thing. So I say make I ask you.” That question was a rude shock because Sola and I never talked about our genotypes.
That was the darkest moment of our relationship till this day. We had nurtured something we both knew was going to go to the next level. Now our genotypes, it seemed, would become an obstacle. I remember she left me that night to go call a friend and she cried so hard. All our friends were sad for us. Dr. Olanrewaju Ajetunmobi had to take our blood samples to conduct another genotype test. Haha! We were hoping that somehow one of us had been wrong about what we already knew. Of course the results came back the same.
Sola was the split image of what I wanted in the woman who would become my wife. I had never met any woman like her in my entire life. At this point, we knew we had to make a decision: start a relationship, which will definitely lead to marriage or forget about it and stay friends.
Before now, we both had developed a faith mindset that believed that anything was possible. We were willing to go into a relationship based on what we knew. On her part, Sola had boldly declared to me saying, “I know I can never have sickly children. The life of God in me will not permit that”. But then, we needed to pray about it. We’ve never taken any destiny shaping decision without a leading from God. This was not going to be an exception. I went on a 3 days ret