{"id":1270002,"date":"2022-12-25T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/25\/love-fades-use-your-head-when-getting-married-basketmouths-ex-wife-advises\/"},"modified":"2022-12-25T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:20:35","slug":"love-fades-use-your-head-when-getting-married-basketmouths-ex-wife-advises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/25\/love-fades-use-your-head-when-getting-married-basketmouths-ex-wife-advises\/","title":{"rendered":"Love fades; use your head when getting married \u2014 Basketmouth\u2019s ex-wife advises \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h3><strong>In an old video, the estranged wife of Nigerian comedian Basketmouth, Miss Elsie quietly suggested that the love in their marriage had vanished, which might have contributed to their eventual divorce.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Thursday on his Instagram account, the comedian formally announced the dissolution of their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as it pains me to bring my personal life into the public space, this is an unavoidable situation. After much deliberation, my wife and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we move forward separately, we will continue to work together to give our beautiful children all the care, love, guidance, and support they need. We humbly ask that you respect our privacy as we navigate through these times. Thank you,\u201d his post reads.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Nigerian comedian Basketmouth ends 12-year marriage with wife<\/p>\n<p>Netizens who were left wondering what happened to the couples subsequently dug out an old video in which Mrs. Okpocha advised women not to rely only on love while getting married.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Because marriage is a lifelong commitment, she counseled unmarried women to select their partners wisely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore you marry anybody, make sure you use your head, not your heart; love is important in marriage but not the thing that should guide you because love fades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s marriage, not a vacation, it\u2019s a lifetime commitment. Nobody goes into marriage hoping to get a divorce. Marry someone that has sense; that is the most important thing in marriage in order to make the marriage work,\u201d she said in the tape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1SWk0IB34oo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love fades; use your head when getting married - Basketball mouth ex-wife\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1SWk0IB34oo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; In an old video, the estranged wife of Nigerian comedian Basketmouth, Miss Elsie quietly suggested that the love in their marriage had vanished, which might have contributed to their eventual divorce. Thursday on his Instagram account, the comedian formally announced the dissolution of their marriage. \u201cAs much as it pains me to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2151,2156,13856,22264,476,1027],"class_list":["post-1270002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-advises","tag-basketmouths","tag-exwife","tag-fades","tag-love","tag-married"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}