

What you've practiced, and what habits you have, are still there."Īnd what Meagan shared what she learned in waiting too: "Because if I have no discipline in xes before marriage, then I have no discipline in xes after marriage. "I said, God, I don't have enough strength to get out of this, but if you get me out of this relationship, then I am going to practice 'the wait.' so I can align my public self with my private self so I can have peace."Īnd since that day, he began practicing celibacy with an iron fist and didn't break his promise until his wife Meagan came along: He goes on to discuss being in a bad relationship as well, and him speaking to God about helping him. And the public person and the private person were at war. But privately I was doing something different. "I started preaching when I was 15, so I was teaching people how to live.

But I was still telling people that I was waitng because I didn't have enough courage to let people know that I made a different choice in my life." But when I got in high school, I didn't wait. So from a very early age, I was taught, you know, wait-you gotta wait 'til marriage. The third thing that God told me was that Devon was my husband."īut it was when the two joined Oprah on the OWN Network's Super Soul Sunday to discuss that we learned how their relationship is deeper than what they could ever express. The second thing that God told me was that it was time to be celibate. "The first thing that God told me was that it was time to get out of relationship. According to the actress, their marriage was preordained by God. In 2011, the two began dating after getting to know each other on the set of the film Jumping the Broom, and the two eventually got married in June 2012. Dix.įortunately for the happy couple, the stars aligned at the right time, and the two have stood by each other's side ever since. More specifically, his celibacy, set to the tune of ten entire years.


Girl meets boy, girls like boy, girl starts telling everyone that he was her husband.īut there was one factor to their relationship that wasn't as ordinary: celibacy. It was pretty standard for both of them: boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy thinks girl is out of his league. DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good's start of their relationship was interesting to say the least, and a story that they have told many times over.
