Nollywood actor and national president of Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Producers' Association of Nigeria, Dele Odule (TAMPAN), recently poured encomium on his wife for being able to love him and manage the home for 20 years.

According to the actor, it has not been rosy in the marriage especially with the fact that he is an actor and his wife a legal practitioner but they have grown to love and understand each other with time and they have been able to build a good home.

The actor pointed out that credit should be given to God because he is the sustainer of the home but the woman is the only person who can actually make that home stand or fail.

In his words, “God sustains marriage. But the only person that actually makes it sustainable is the woman. So, she has done excellently well in that regard. She has done so much to make sure that the marriage is still intact.

“Because if she has to go by the way an actor would have lived, ah! (laughter). We are from different school of thoughts. I am from the acting, she is a legal practitioner. So, you can see that we are not from the same field.”

While praising his wife, he also recalled how he had met her when she just left secondary school in 1988 and got her pregnant in 1991 but later lost the child.

“I met my wife in 1988, we had our first child in 1991, though he's late now. The boy is late now. We got married officially 20 years ago. We got our first child before we actually went to the altar. I met her when she was just a young girl. She just left secondary school then,” he told Yes magazine.