Broke the village taboo/ Love that turned into a tragedy

2023-12-17 17:10:00, Sociale CNA

Broke the village taboo/ Love that turned into a tragedy

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Mimoza, mother of two children, comes from Germany, where she has lived for 25 years in "There's a Message for You". Before revealing the reason for her arrival in the "Albanian Sunday" column on TV Klan, she begins to recount the past years in Albania.

Mimoza comes from a rural area of ??Kukes and at the age of 18 she experienced the feeling of love for the first time. In the place where she lived, love was a "forbidden apple" because the village knew only tradition and custom, so her feelings were tested for two years. Then, when she thought she had achieved everything, Mimosa had to experience the pain.

Mimosa: I fell in love with one of my fellow villagers who, according to the traditions of that village, had to marry the girl. Love was taboo.

Ardit Gjebrea: Really, there were no couples who fell in love and then got married or was it just the go-getter?

Mimosa: I speak to you, at that time I do not know anyone who was engaged or married for love in my village.

Ardit Gjebrea: But you fell in love.

Mimosa: Yes. I fell in love thinking that man will appreciate a feeling that comes from God.

Ardit Gjebrea: How did your love go?

Mimosa: My love was judged, prejudiced, condemned by the whole village, which also reflected on my family.

Ardit Gjebrea: How did your family receive you?

Mimosa: Feeling under the pressure of opinion, they did not agree to that relationship and tried for two years to get rid of me.

Ardit Gjebrea: Ah, why did it last two years?

Mimosa: Yes.

Ardit Gjebrea: From 18 to 20 years old.

Mimosa: Yes.

Ardit Gjebrea: And?

Mimosa: After two years, maybe my late father who I miss today, reflected and saw my psychological state that I was very determined about that relationship and crowned it with our marriage.

Ardit Gjebrea: So finally dad agreed and said "marry the one you want".

Mimosa: Yes.

Ardit Gjebrea: Did the wedding take place?

Mimosa: Of course the wedding took place but maybe when one thinks that one has reached the top or made a dream come true, it happened that after I went to the hall, to the husband's family where there was a wedding for both of us to end up in the hospital.

Ardit Gjebrea: What happened, did you have any food poisoning or what?

Mimosa: Someone said that some magic, someone... was suffering from the heart, but I think that our psychological condition had worsened these two years and what happened was that after a few days after the wedding, I survived but he died. Here I thought there is no tomorrow for me. I thought that... there was the hope of every dream that I had until then thought to see come true./tvklan.al