{"id":13502,"date":"2019-08-07T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T10:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:42:31","slug":"i-paid-my-own-dowry-it-still-hurts-anne-kansiime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=13502","title":{"rendered":"I paid my own dowry, it still hurts- Anne Kansiime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-info-top left relative\"><strong>By Sqoop<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Very often, we are told, \u2018forgive and forget\u2019. But is it really easy to forget?<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, comedienne Anne Kansiime ended her five-year marriage with Gerald Ojok. Shortly after their breakup, the two had a bitter internet exchange that had both of them washing their dirty linen in public.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kansiime, one of the reasons was because she rushed into it and in the end, it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>Much as she moved on and got herself a new lover, Kansiime seems to be finding it hard to forgive and forget her ex-husband.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anne-Kansiime-with-ex-hubby-Ojok-Gerald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anne-Kansiime-with-ex-hubby-Ojok-Gerald.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anne-Kansiime-with-ex-hubby-Ojok-Gerald-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anne-Kansiime-with-ex-hubby-Ojok-Gerald-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Anne-Kansiime-with-ex-hubby-Ojok-Gerald-750x459.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On August 3, 2019, Anne Kansiime hosted Nana Kaga on her YouTube Channel. The two were discussing their personal experiences with wedding meetings. From the pressure to contribute money to weddings, and all the other technicalities around the topic, their discussion somehow found its way to Kansiime\u2019s ex-husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a Kwanjula ceremony, the couple is given a marriage certificate and they can live together as husband and wife,\u201d Nana wondered why couples invite their friends to contribute to introduction ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is how mine was called a marriage,\u201d Kansiime interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, you were confused, you paid your own bride price,\u201d said Nana.<\/p>\n<p>It is then that Kansiime explained how she ended up paying her bride price, to make it easy for Mr Ojok to marry her.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1391994_10201626245771351_118667051_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1391994_10201626245771351_118667051_n.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1391994_10201626245771351_118667051_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1391994_10201626245771351_118667051_n-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1391994_10201626245771351_118667051_n-750x498.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accused someone of marrying me long enough for the whole to believe it and him to believe it and I also believed it. Later when I realized that when you are married, it is when a man wakes up on his two feet, pays your bride price, takes you to church and then marries you; none of that had happened,\u201d she said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqoop.co.ug\/201908\/four-one-one\/i-paid-my-own-dowry-it-still-hurts-anne-kansiime.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sqoop Very often, we are told, \u2018forgive and forget\u2019. But is it really easy to forget? Two years ago, comedienne Anne Kansiime ended her five-year marriage with Gerald Ojok. Shortly after their breakup, the two had a bitter internet exchange that had both of them washing their dirty linen in public. 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