An elderly woman has lamented being single and still searching because she rejected many men in the name of sacrificing her life to give her siblings a good education before getting married.
In an interview with AfriMax, monitored by Znewsgh.com, the Congolese woman identified as Alphonsine Tawara revealed this.
According to her, she loved her siblings so much that she wanted them to graduate from school, and have a better life before she get married so she rejected a lot of men who wanted to marry her at the time.
“The reason I am still single is that I haven’t found the right man for me. But when I was still a young girl, several men were chasing after me. I dated several, but I refused to get married before my siblings graduated because I was the one who was taking care of them. Men would approach me for marriage and I would tell them no because I wanted to educate my siblings first, then marry later,”she said.
Now that she is ready to settle down, men are no longer coming because age has caught up with her already.
Alphonsine revealed that even though she has no child of her own, she was a teacher and taught mostly in Catholic mission schools seeing the pupils she has taught as her children.
“I have no biological child, but I am a mother of many – the children I have taught,” she said.
In an earlier report, a 56-year-old woman with a disability, identified as Alvera Uwitonze turned down many men when she was young, but now men are asking her to pay them before they can have a relationship with her.