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For the first seven years of their marriage, Bisoye and Lara Adedoyin – not real names – were subjects of mockery by some family members. The couple’s only ‘offence’ was that they didn’t have a child.
“I remember a time my mother-in-law asked me what I was using my womb for since I couldn’t conceive,” Lara told our correspondent. “It was in the presence of five other in-laws at a family function. I felt like vanishing from their presence.”
Bisoye and Lara had met while they were both final year students at a state-owned university in Oyo State sometime in 2007. They got married three years later.