Popular Nigerian dancer Kaffy Shafau has opened up about the reasons her marriage ended, attributing it to her limited understanding of what marriage truly involves.
In an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Kaffy explained that many people enter marriage without proper preparation or guidance, a mistake she admits she also made.
Kaffy, who was married to Joseph Ameh from June 2012 until their divorce in January 2022, called for a more structured and intentional approach to marriage.
She suggested that couples planning to marry should undergo counselling, mental health assessments, and even a year-long programme in human behavioural sciences before committing to marriage.
The dancer also expressed concern that getting a marriage certificate appears easier than obtaining a driver’s licence, despite the serious responsibilities that come with marriage.
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She said, “I was not educated enough for marriage and a lot of us aren’t, our parents are not preparing us enough, living through their eyes is not enough education about marriage.
“It is a special course that needs to be taken, we can’t have a society that issues you marriage certificate easier than drivers license like it’s harder to get the drivers license but it’s much easier to get a marriage certificate but it’s inside this home that all the ills of the society are being built.
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“There’s a lot of mental health situations and assessments that needs to go on.Its not only counselling that they should do. They should do mental evaluation of the couple.
“It should be a mandatory requirement that drug test, mental evaluation, couples therapy, all of these things, there need to be a one year programme of human behavioural sciences that they need to go before two people come and damage another human being that they would bring to life”.
