If you continue to live in the paradise of being single but also want to taste the honey of marriage, today we want to encourage you not to lose hope, because there is more time than life. The best example of this is Alice Jemeli, a woman who at the age of 40 married her now husband Johana Maritim Butuk, 99.
And it is that in matters of love, age is not important, although one of the things that has most attracted the attention of this story is that the couple married 20 years after they began the relationship. The wedding took place on January 14, in Kenya, after Butuk proposed to her in December 2022.
According to Butuk’s testimony, he met Alice in 2003, at that time, she was 20 years old and he was 79. And despite the fact that they are many years apart, Cupid did his thing and love arose between them.
I never got married in my whole life because I always wanted to be calm. I was also busy with jobs and when I decided to get married, all my friends were already grandparents. But when I met my wife, I found that I found what I wanted in life. Alice talks less and she helps navigate life’s challenges.
For her part, Alice also assures that she fell in love with her husband from the first day she met him, because after having been in an abusive relationship, she saw in Butuk a humble man who was willing to listen to her.
According to the couple, they met when the man lived with his brother and the conditions in which he was found were not the most optimal, so he was neglected. Years later, when Butuk’s brother passed away, Alice moved in with her now-husband to support him, and they later built their own home.
Of course, not everything has been easy for them, since the criticisms due to the age difference have not been long in coming, since Alice assures that many people did not agree with their marriage because they thought that she had an economic interest. However, Butuk does not possess wealth and the woman herself claims that she fell in love with him because he was so different from the young men she once dated.
Finally, Alice, mother of three children from a previous relationship, pointed out that one of the reasons why she chose her husband is because he gives her the freedom to work and take care of her children in peace.