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A 50-year-old Nigerian lady, Gladys Lasila has found love in a white man, Ian, and they are set to walk down the aisle.
The lovely couple will have their wedding this Saturday.
The bride-to-be, Gladys shared how she feels getting married for the first time at fifty.
The Media Room Hub shared this statement for the couple: “The feeling of getting married for the first time at fifty is indescribable and we can tell you guys that her husband to be, Ian feels on top of the world to have her by his side. Despite their pasts experiences, Gladys and Ian never for a second, gave up on love and it’s so amazing to see two hearts bound by love agree to stay by each other forever.
Like JoyBell C. Says, “You can talk with someone for years, every day, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever. Connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
The most traditional reason to get married over 50, or at any age, is still the best: love.
Couples who live together outside marriage no longer face the societal pressures and judgments they once did, and there are certainly compelling reasons for people over 50 to remain single, yet many older couples still choose to marry.
Studies consistently show that the number of couples over 50 who cohabit rather than marry is on the rise, but there is something deeply meaningful about publicly declaring your commitment to love, honor and cherish the person with whom you have chosen to share your life, no matter what the years may bring.
Vows such as “in sickness and in health” and “until death do us part,” whether spoken or implied, are not vague concepts to couples who get married over 50. Once we pass the half-century mark, most of us have logged enough years and experiences to know what it means to face deteriorating health and changing fortunes, and we know those things don’t happen only to other people.
While it may be a stretch to say that two can live as cheaply as one, it is certainly true that two people together can live on far less money than two people apart.
Married couples enjoy economies of scale that single people simply can’t equal—unless they cohabitate.
When two single people living separately decide to marry, the total amount they pay for everything from housing to food to medical insurance immediately goes down. Some things may stay the same, such as auto maintenance if they both continue to need their own cars, but married couples often get better rates for auto insurance.
Bottom line: most living expenses will decrease dramatically when two people begin sharing the cost of one household.
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