Nigerian Woman Celebrates 11th Anniversary, Says Marrying Husband With Little Was One of Her Best Decisions

A Nigerian woman, Chisom Chigbo, has said that choosing to marry her husband at a time when he had few material possessions was among the wisest choices she has ever made. The mother of three shared her account in a Facebook post on Monday, September 28, 2026, as she and her husband marked their 11th wedding anniversary. Chigbo explained that she married him out of love, because she recognized his values, and because she had faith in the person he was and the person he might grow into. Looking back, she described the early years as a period of hardship. She recalled times when they did not know where their next meal would come from and had to walk because they could not pay for transportation. She also remembered buying discounted leftover meat and broken tomatoes at the market at night. She noted that they had faced difficulties paying rent, worried about school fees for their children, and often had to plan carefully to make ends meet with very little. Despite those challenges, she said, they continued moving forward together. Today, she added, they are living out answers to prayers they once made. In her post, Chigbo wrote that 11 years earlier she had married a man who had a job but little money, and who was building his life from the ground up. She said she did not marry him for financial reasons. Instead, she said, she loved him, valued what she saw in him, and believed in his potential. She stated that after 11 years she could say with confidence that marrying him was one of the best decisions of her life. She recalled that they did not begin with abundance but with their relationship. There were days, she said, when they ate their final meal without knowing where the next would come from, days when they walked because they could not afford transport, and days when they moved from one okada to another. They went to the market at night for cheaper leftover meat and bought broken tomatoes because that was all their money could cover. They also struggled with rent and with school fees, and sometimes sat down to work out how to manage everything with limited resources. Chigbo said they had experienced lack and struggle, and there were seasons when they wondered whether their situation would improve. Yet they kept going together, she wrote. Now, 11 years later, they are living in circumstances their younger selves could only have imagined in a sleep brought on by malaria. She said they are now experiencing things they once only prayed for. At times, she looks at their current life and remembers two people who were simply trying to survive and build a future with very little. She acknowledged that some people had doubted them and that some had quietly believed she had made a mistake, with others asking who she was. In time, she wrote, those same people have come around to ask how she is doing. Addressing her husband affectionately, she said God had brought them far. She said she could not tell the story of her life without telling the story of her husband. They did not have everything when they started, she said, but they had love, faith, friendship, determination, and a willingness to build together. She credited God with multiplying their little, and asked which of His blessings she could deny. She ended by wishing them a happy 11th wedding anniversary.