Betty and Soni Irabor celebrate their 30th Wedding Anniversary

Wow, 30 years of marriage and still going strong. Betty Irabor is the publisher and Editor-in-chief of Genevieve magazine while her hubby, Soni who is a TV personality celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary yesterday.

Here's Betty's advice for couples on how she and hubby get through the bad days:

We do have our roforofo moments but we work it out. A marriage where couples don’t communicate and bear grudges is likely to be an unhappy one.  Talk it over and don’t keep digging up the past. Forgive…forgive…forgive. What I know for sure is that Christ is the foundation of a good marriage.  

Having said that, I would like to add that when the time comes for anyone to choose a life partner, choose a partner who is not embarrassed to say “I am sorry” when he is wrong and never makes you feel small so he can appear taller.  Marry for all the right reasons and never for what you can get out of it when you haven’t put anything in. 

Marriage takes Two: They say the future of a marriage lies in the hands of the woman but I say it takes two. Marriage is one of the world’s biggest collabos between two strangers. It has no manual; you learn on the job.