Married to a Masked Man


🎭 Married to a Masked Man: When Love Turns into Rituals and Regret
 By Khanyisa Manganyi

You were glowing, girl. Sparkling like a chandelier at a wedding expo. You thought you’d found him. The man who ticked the boxes — kind of handsome, kind of saved, knew a few gospel lyrics, maybe even quoted a Psalm or two when he was trying to be deep. He didn’t go to church all the time, but you told yourself, “It’s okay, we’ll grow together.” Oh, the fog of love, the dangerous drug of cloud 9. But now? You're in a living room full of burning herbs, goat blood on the porch, and some suspicious muttering in a language you know isn’t tongues. Sis… that’s not marriage. That’s a ritual.

Now you’re sitting on the edge of the bed with your Bible on your lap, flipping pages like you’re trying to find any verse that will tell you if it’s okay to leave. “Does God allow divorce? Am I just being tested?” you wonder, hoping it’s all a phase. But babe… this isn’t a trial. This is a cult initiation, and you didn’t sign up.

Let’s not sugarcoat it — God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16), yes. But He also doesn’t call His daughters to be bound to darkness pretending it’s “marriage.” 2 Corinthians 6:14 says it loud and clear: Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Not just unequally broke, woke, or emotionally unavailable — unequally yoked spiritually. The yoke you’re under now? It’s not just heavy — it’s demonic. You didn’t marry a husband. You married a priest of something you didn’t pray about.

Let’s be real: love didn’t blind you, disobedience did. You ignored the Holy Spirit’s warning because your heart said “yes” louder than your discernment said “girl, wait.” But that was then. Now you’ve woken up, and your life feels like the set of a horror movie with wedding photos as props.

My advice? Run. Don’t walk. RUN. Get yourself a good lawyer, some anointing oil, and a support group of praying women who won’t judge you but will help pull you out. Divorce is painful, but being spiritually imprisoned is deadly. The enemy would love for you to stay silent in the name of “submission.” But that’s not submission, baby — that’s spiritual suicide.

You’re not leaving a man. You’re escaping a lie. A marriage without God at the center isn’t a covenant — it’s a contract signed in emotions and sometimes, unknowingly, in blood.

So, to answer the question — yes, there are Biblical grounds for walking away when there’s spiritual corruption, danger, or when the man you married is no longer standing in the light (1 Corinthians 7:15). If the unbeliever departs, let him depart. Let you depart too if you realize he was never walking in the same spiritual direction to begin with.

You don’t need a panel of prophets to confirm what you already know. The rituals, the deception, the spiritual disconnection — that’s the unforgivable truth you can’t pretend away.

Next time, before the dress fittings and hashtag naming, put God first. Not after the butterflies. Not after you’ve picked the wedding colours. Put Him first. Pray until your knees are dusty and your ears can distinguish between charm and character.

Because love is patient, yes — but so is the devil. And he wears cologne too.

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