{"id":19779,"date":"2021-11-08T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=19779"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T07:31:03","slug":"a-friend-said-she-was-too-good-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=19779","title":{"rendered":"A friend said she was too good for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"page-grid-header\">\n<header class=\"page-header\" data-page-header=\"true\">\n<nav class=\"sub-nav color-set-color-2\" data-sub-nav=\"true\">\n<div class=\"grid-container\">By Joan Salmon<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-page\" data-article-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-content xxx\">\n<div class=\"grid-container-small\">\n<div class=\"col-1-1\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>When John Lutalo first met Olivia Kwagala, a news anchor at CBS radio, it was love at first sight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-page-ad_wrap mobile\">\n<div id=\"mobile-article-ad-1\" class=\"content-page-ad content-page-ad_mobile\" data-google-query-id=\"CN7OwNOdifQCFdqw1QodrJsCJg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1010816\/DM-art-News-300x250-L1_0__container__\">Lutalo says that at Bulange, Mengo, where he had gone to register for Entanda ya Buganda, he finally put a face to the pleasant-sounding voice he had always heard reading news on the radio.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>John later travelled back to Dubai where he worked but contacted Olivia through Facebook in 2014. Although she had never met him, she shared her telephone number so that they could keep in touch through WhatsApp. For one year, the two focused on getting to know each other;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>\u00a0However, his lifestyle was to soon catch up with him as they say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>\u201cThe day I told my friend, Jimmy Kakooza, with whom I worked in Dubai that I was dating Olivia, he advised against it. Jimmy knew both of us very well; Olivia as a woman of integrity and I as someone who loved partying and bar hoping,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Seeing no chance for the relationship to blossom, John gave up on the idea of dating but did not tell Olivia. However, he later realised that it was not worth clinging onto a lifestyle and lose the love of his life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>\u201cIn August 2014, I accepted Jesus Christ and got baptised. I started praying, asking God to help me find a virtuous woman,\u201d he says, adding that in the process, he and Olivia started dating again. However, she asked that they meet in person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>John remembers a message sent by his longtime friend, Maj. Robert Mutabaazi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>\u201cAs we talked on Whatsapp, he advised me to watch out for \u2018Kampala girls\u2019 lest I get \u2018detoothed\u2019. Little did he know that in the same city were women who are not only rooted in God but also faithful,\u201d he smiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-page-ad_wrap mobile\">\n<div id=\"mobile-article-ad-2\" class=\"content-page-ad content-page-ad_mobile\" data-google-query-id=\"CMj6zNOdifQCFYcGBgAdXosM2w\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1010816\/DM-art-News-300x250-R2_0__container__\">Sticking with his plan, John travelled to Uganda to meet Olivia in October 2015. They met at Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala where John proposed. Thankfully, she accepted his proposal and they agreed to formalise the relationship in December 2016.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>\u201cMeeting him for the first time, I did not expect a proposal. In fact, I found it rather abrupt,\u201d she says. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/lifestyle\/heart-to-heart\/a-friend-said-olivia-was-too-good-for-me-3607396\">Click to read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joan Salmon When John Lutalo first met Olivia Kwagala, a news anchor at CBS radio, it was love at first sight. 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