Kai and Karo Chief Executive Officer Khalif Kairo and his partner, model Maria Wavinya recently gave fans a peek into their romance and journey together.
The loved up pair talked exclusively to media personality Eve Mungai in an interview which premiered on YouTube Tuesday evening, and on the chat, the businessman addressed Maria as his wife.
“Technically, we are actually married,” Kairo said.
“I think uki sha (when you) mature ukifika (and you reach) a certain mindset, you are ‘like look you need to settle down, you need to start having babies as soon as possible and we need to build our family’.”
He added that he and Maria are on the same page about how serious they want to be at this time in their lives.
“And when you meet a woman who has the same sort of principles and approach to life… someone who wants to settle down, wants to be a good wife, wants to raise your children… unaanguka nayo. You don’t have to keep wasting time.”
Maria supported his statement, adding that she had made the decision to settle down two years ago.
“Being young doesn’t mean I am not exposed. Because, if it’s travelling, I’ve done a bunch of travelling…I’ve interacted with people… so it’s gotten to a point in my life where I feel like if we are delaying the thing for too long, you are practically wasting my time,” the Miss World Kenya 2019 titleholder said.
“It got to a point where I decided I actually want to get married and start my own family.”
CEO Kairo doubled down on his statements about marriage, saying that he and Maria are legally married 4 months into their relationship.
“It’s only that we’ve not done that big wedding… we’re very modest as a couple. We’ll have a ceremony, just don’t expect it to be grand, it will be polite, me and her, a few people, maybe somewhere on the beach.”
He then gushed about his beau, adding that she brightens up his life, and that she is definitely the woman he wants to spend his life with.
Kairo further noted that he learns from the mistakes he made in the past, and is using those lessons to make his relationship work.
When probed about whether he is ashamed to be called a “simp”, a slang word for men who are seen as too attentive and submissive to women, he dived into his opinion about how women should be treated.
“Being a simp is not treating a woman right. When I go out with Maria, I’ll pull out seats, I’ll compliment her, when things are good we’ll go to very expensive treats… and I believe that is the right way to treat a woman.
“You become a simp when she disrespects you and you continue doing the same thing. But treating a woman nicely, that’s being a gentleman.”
