LUXE CULTURE by idoghana Spring/Summer | Page 105

How Tobi and I met: In short we met in church! He was worshipping, I was ushering, prancing up and down in a long fitted black number. Apparently I caught his eye…I didn’t even notice- unlike him, I was too busy focusing on God. A couple of weeks later I received a Facebook message asking if I was ok because I’d been on his heart… I was shocked considering we’d never even had a conversation before and a little confused but I still thought ‘how sweet, Reverend Tobi is messaging me to see how I am!’ We got talking and I started pouring out my heart about how I’d been struggling balancing so much. He took a real interest and made sure he followed things up with me regularly; by regularly I mean every day. He began training me in the word, prayer and business so we began meeting at least once a week for mentoring. ‘Mentoring?’ Everybody said, ‘which kind of mentoring!? Nic trust me he’s interested in you, he likes you. Men of God are men too, they also have eyes you know’. I was trying to keep my thoughts pure! I didn’t want to look at him like that. He was a leader in my church! I switched myself off to all the signs and convinced myself he was just trying to be a good friend. I didn’t’ want to believe he could be anything more, I was happy with where I was and to be honest I didn’t know why he would ever be interested in someone like me. One day he decided to visit one of his friends in Kent not too far from me and invited me over to discuss a business opportunity. Of course I went! He spoke with so much eloquence and wisdom I felt that I could learn so much. They say work hard play harder. As we both got more comfortable around each other, our business quickly turned to pleasure! He cooked me spaghetti Bolognese secretly hoping for that lip locking lady in the tramp moment. I ate till I was about to burst, laughed till I cried and play fought till I was bruised. And with every epic play fight comes the moment where eyes intensely lock, your heart stops beating and you both know if one of you doesn’t get up things will rapidly turn from light humour to that awkward face to face breathing in 1/10th of a second (you all know what I’m talking about). A little flirting never hurt nobody. Soon after I began travelling with him whenever he had a speaking engagement- for those of you who don’t yet know, my husband is my favourite preacher and the best speaker in the world . That’s where is all began, from there our friendship just blossomed. I don’t believe I fell in love because whatever you fall into you can fall out of. Rather he poured out himself in knowledge, wisdom. He loved me by investing in my inner being so I could become the best version of me. We grew in love and are growing together everyday. 3 years later here we are and there’s nothing more beautiful. Mrs Arayomi