Marriages of silver spoon kids have attained the status of just one other routine indulgence amongst their kind in the high society. Unlike their less privileged peers, they bat no eyelid and remain unperturbed even while their marriages careen towards a disastrous end. That is because due to their enviable pedigree, when their talk-of-the-town marriages hit the iceberg, they are quick to run off and start over with some new lover.

It gets easier for them to quit their failing or failed marriages to embark on some new romantic enterprise given their unrestricted access to daddy or mummy’s money or trust fund.

Notwithstanding this immutable fact, not a few people, particularly scions of the Nigeria’s filthy rich, will contend that the uncertainties of silver spoon romance, the fatalism of cupid as well as the dilemmas of conscience and egotism all critically constitute unfair influences in the crash of so many silver spoon marriages. However, it will be wrong to imagine all that as the major reasons why silver spoon marriages crash. It is instructive to note that many superrich couples actually fail to immerse themselves in wedlock to such a degree that they will become bothered by any critical downturn in their marital fortunes.

Given their pedigree, they usually don’t need each other for survival and comfort, as are the cases with many wannabe celebrity couples or marriage partners from the working class divide. Thus, rather than work at making the marriage work, they simply decide to move on to the next available love interest. Having married young, they keep on marrying, springing from bride to bride or groom to groom like the chamois of the Alps undeniably adept at leaping from crag to crag. For instance, when Tope Atere and Lande Atere got married some years ago, it was believed that no society wedding would compare with theirs again. Brimming with frills required to make a Prince’s marriage a success, their marriage was expected to be ethereal in breadth and substance. Adding depth to their pedigree is the fact that Tope is from the famous Atere family in Ogun State; but all that is not enough to guarantee the couple’s marriage as it currently totters on the brink of collapse.

Not to forget the grand ceremony that heralded the coming together of Faith Aiyegbeni, the daughter of the owner of D-Rovans hotel in Ibadan, Oyo State, Chief Francis Aiyegbeni, and Saton. Theirs was another marriage that rocked the foundations of Oyo high society until their marital adventure ended on a sour note. Throughout the marriage, Faith allegedly refused to play the submissive wife – a situation reportedly attributed to the fact that Saton, depended on her for everything. Faith reportedly handled the bills and took the major decisions in the house thus relegating her husband to the position of a minion. Although parties close to them explained that they tried patching things up, all their efforts amounted to naught.

Also, Eyitayo, the son of Dr. Onaolapo Soleye, joined the ignominious train; the handsome dude has washed his hands off anything that has to do with Olayombo his wife of barely three months then. Then, there is Olamipo, the daughter of Chief Alao Akala, the former governor of Oyo State whose marriage to Lanre Aboderin has run its full course. Theirs was a seemingly blissful nuptial that, many a time, Olamipo’s peers get to imagine themselves in her shoes, with some even wondering why she seemed to be the luckiest among them. She is young and pretty; a silver spoon kid with Ivy League education; add to that mix a husband in the mould of Lanre. However, the seed of discord began to germinate between them for undisclosed reasons and soon, Olamipo vacated their matrimonial home. Now, all the starry-eyed visions the couple had have been consigned to the waste basket of history.

More amusing is the fact that Aderike Shonekan’s guilty pleasures ruined her marriage. Aderike is the daughter of former interim president, Chief Ernest Shonekan. When she tied the knots with Bimbo Ajitena few years ago, the eaves of Lagos creaked with excitement and merriment. Theirs seemed a perfect marriage until her aristocratic background allegedly got into her head and she refused to submit to her man. Aderike, it was gathered, could not envision herself being subservient to any man and that didn’t sit well with her husband. Sooner than anyone could imagine, Aderike sought escape from her tumultuous marriage visiting top watering-holes almost every Friday night in company of her friends, Louise Priddy, Tilewa Johnson, Feyi Akinrinola, Alaba Ayoku, and others. Predictably, her outrageous lifestyle took its toll on her marriage and she was thrown out of her matrimonial home to the dismay of her aristocratic family.

Forget Arike and Abi Kuku and Funke Fowler, Patrick Koshoni ravenously savours the thrill of bachelorhood, for the second time. The relish with which he enjoys his newfound freedom even as he ignores the consternation of his friends and family brings to mind, Plutarch, Greek philosopher’s memorable work, Parallel Lives, ‘Life of Aemilius Paulus.’ In the story, a Roman got divorced from his wife. The Roman, highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?' holds out his shoe and asked his friends whether it was not new and well made. ‘Yet,’ he added, ‘none of you can tell where it pinches me.’ Like the proverbial Roman, Patrick certainly had good reasons for refusing to salvage his marriage to Karen before it hit the rocks. And despite her status and affluence, the wedding vow: “For richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part,” did not really work for Halima, Princess and daughter of Alhaji Hassan, billionaire oil magnate. As you read, what was supposed to be her fairytale has mutated into an everlasting nightmare. The ravishing Princess’ marriage to Usman Abubakar has crumbled like a pack of cards. It would be recalled that the couple got married in a grand wedding ceremony that attracted society heavyweights. Today, while the ancient city of Kano still relieves the grand celebration of love, in faraway United Kingdom, the couple has bid each other goodbye. Shortly after the wedding, the couple relocated to London and it was there that things started going awry. Reports indicate that Halima refused to swallow the humble pie and be submissive to her man. Bolstered by her privileged background and status, she toyed with her marriage and ended up driving it against the rocks.

The list is as long and endless as their sad stories prompting questions and tiresome rhetoric about the wisdom of silver spoon marriages. Oftentimes, the estranged couples shamelessly wash their dirty linens in public revealing to all and sundry things that are best kept secret. Many a party to such marriages has revealed that they had been victims of forced marriages and inconvenient betrothals that never enjoyed their consent. After spending so much money, the farce devastatingly ends oftentimes for the two strange bed fellows forcefully united on the altar of their parents’ vanities and egotism. However, they hardly get to help the situation as they seemingly only seek to enjoy the good times and every thrill and frill of their wedlock. At the slightest eruption of trouble or challenge of any kind, they become grossly insouciant, uncooperative and eventually pack their bags or quit their home.

Such arrant superciliousness remains unacceptable to partners who oftentimes are wrought of similar character. When everything gets to a head, their marriage becomes gossip material for many society journals that cash in on this and sensationalize it. Consequently, the minor issues are blown out of proportion by the persistent sensationalism accorded it by the media and the public. Courtesy their incessant exposure of their dirty linens or best kept secrets to the public, they satisfy the obsessive lusts and perversions of the media and news audience who maniacally seek out the smell of brimstone in lives made too affluent and easy. It’s no surprise then that such celebrity marriages crash and sink like a brittle ship no sooner than it set on its course.

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Dem dey carry their papa money for head enter marriage. It doesn't work that way.

Well well well
They are also human beings

Are you aware Divource rate now equals marriage rate in the USA and an imminent overturn in the near future?..

Its not just the rich, its everywhere.. you can distinguish the rich because of the extravagant weddings..