‘I Regret Getting Married Late’ – MI Abaga, 43, Candidly Shares In New Interview
Veteran Nigerian rapper, MI Abaga has opened up about his journey to marriage and the internal struggles he faced while watching his peers settle down early.
Speaking on the Jay On Air Podcast, the 43-year-old superstar who tied the nuptial knot with his beau at the age of 41, revealed that by the age of 37, he began to feel regretful as many of his friends who married in their twenties were now raising teenagers or sending their kids off to college.
In his words:
“I felt a little bad about being unmarried when I was 37 because my friend who got married at 25, 26 now have 14 year old children.
I have friends who have kids who are going off to college now and some of them who didn’t marry had kids early. Jesse has a 21 year old child and I don’t have any kids of my own yet so you miss out on some of that.”
However, from his current perspective, Abaga expressed that he has no regrets. Just a year after ending a previous relationship, he met his wife. He continued:
“I have no complaints because I got the opportunity to meet this beautiful woman who I’m married to now and I really see some Providence In that. At the end of the day, when you’re not ready you’re not ready. Everybody’s timeline is different and this is something that is often overlooked in today’s society.”
He further elaborated on his timeline, stating,
“I left a relationship around age 39 and met my wife around 40. She was there at my 40th birthday, and at that point, I was ready, so I asked her to marry me, and we got married when I was 41.”
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Reflecting on past relationships, MI confessed to having been emotionally unprepared and stubborn, acknowledging the women in his life who had treated him with love and kindness.
“I have sadness when I think about how I was in my former relationships. I met a lot of kind women in my life who were supportive to me. I just wasn’t mature and I was stubborn,”
he said.