Albert Ocran advises on how to thrive through marital challenges

Executive Pastor at ICGC Christ Temple, Albert Ocran, has said that while he does not view himself as the perfect role model for married couples, he believes they can learn a thing or two from him and his wife, Comfort Ocran when they are confronted with the decision to divorce or not.
According to him, he still learns new things even after twenty-seven years of marriage. “Even after twenty-seven years of marriage, I still see myself as a learner. It is just every day, one step at a time, exploring the journey. I tell people plain honest that some of the things that people divorce about, we went through it and we decided just to work it out. It is a very complex situation”, he told Rev.Erskine on the Y Leaderboard Series of the Myd Morning Show.
Giving an example of how they as a couple have dealt with their differences, he related, “I grew up without a biological father. So the way my mother raised us was informed by our circumstances. So my outlook on life will have a certain dimension to it. I started as a very strict father because that is how I was raised. My wife couldn’t understand why I was so strict because her setting was very different even though my mum and her mum were both teachers, she grew up in a different setting.
Now any comments she made about me being strict, if I didn’t understand it, could easily lead to fire because in making it there will be probably an inference to how I grew up and I could take it very personally. This same thing could let someone walk out of a marriage”.
He advised, “Very often, I think that the things that people go to war over are resolvable. If we will just breathe in and accept that we are different people but we have decided to do this for life, let’s work it out.”
Albert and Comfort Ocran are a Ghanaian couple who are admired by many for their exemplary marriage life.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah