White Lady Who Was Bashed Online After Relocating To Nigeria With Her Husband, Explains Why She Moved

An Ukraine lady named Lana Svitlana who’s married to a Nigerian Man once shared her love story online and she received negative comments from Nigerians because she relocated here.

She has cleared the air on why she relocated on her LinkedIn platform.

She wrote;

Hi guys, 😁
So, I decided to share my story again, because so many people keep asking me where I am from, if I am single and why I am using Naija number, so let me post it again. 🙈

My name is Lana and I am originally from Ukraine 🇺🇦 When I was 17 years old, I met my future hubby, who was studying in Ukraine at that time. He is an Igbo man from Mbaise.
Few days ago, someone asked me if it was my dream to marry a Nigerian man.

🤔 Well, I was 17, I beg which man oh.. especially a foreigner 😁😁 But obviously, it was God’s doing. 😌
So when I met my husband, we started to communicate with dictionary, because my English lexicon contained not more that 100 words and his Ukrainian was really shaky too 😅 But somehow we survived and learned from each other.

Two days after we meet, he told me that he will marry me, and after 5 months of dating we was married.

My parents was calm about it, God bless them 🙏. They was worried cause many foreigners that time marry women, make babies then left, but it was not my portion.

I remember that my husband always told me stories on how our future life will be. We could sit for hours and he was just talking with his broking Ukrainian..and I was listening, and believed him.

After we married, we had our first son and moved to Switzerland, stay there for sometimes and then went to US and lived there for 10 years, and this is where our 2nd son was born.

Then, my husband explained to me that our boys should learn Igbo culture and therefore we should go to Nigeria and put them to school for few years.

I won’t lie, it was not easy for me psychologically, I was scared….to leave US and go to Nigeria 😟…it took me 2 years to prepare myself mentally. But I did, and by coming here I become a stronger person not only spiritually but also mentally.

When someone carried my first story I posted here to YabaLeft, many people wrote that my husband and I are crazy, that we need to go and see psychiatrist, pouring all kinds of insults, just because we left US and come to Naija… But what many people don’t understand is that sometimes we do things not because we want to do it, but because we have to do it, and because it is a right thing to do…

My husband actually give me a choice ….. either I stay in US, keep the house, car, etc or go with him….I chose him…I chose my family…over comfortable life in US.
And I did not regret it for a second.

Our life together began over 26 years ago and by the special grace of God we have many more years to come.🙏
Sometime, if we continue to stay in our comfort zone, we won’t achieve much, but expanding it, sky will be our limit.

Thank u for reading.

Source: LinkedIn

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