- MI Abaga shares his journey to marriage, revealing the challenges he faced as he and his friends settled down earlier in life.
- In an interview on the Jay On Air Podcast, he expressed regret at 37, comparing his life to his friends who had married in their twenties and are now raising teenagers.
Nigerian rapper MI Abaga has opened up about his emotional journey toward marriage, revealing the personal struggles and life lessons he encountered as he watched his peers settle down ahead of him.
Speaking on the Jay On Air Podcast, MI shared 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.
He said: “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 kids. 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.
“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 lost in humanity today.
“Within my timeline, It just so happened that I had left a relationship around age 39 and met my wife around 40. She was there at my 40th birthday, at that point I was ready, so I asked her to marry me, we got married when I was 41”.
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.
