After a much-anticipated marriage and courtship leading up to their marriage with their book, The Wait, celebrity couple Meagan Good and Devon Franklin are calling it quits and have just filed for divorce. The couple were married for a total of nine years.
"After much prayer and consideration, we have decided to go into our futures separately but forever connected," Good, 40, and Franklin, 43, share in a joint statement.
"We celebrate almost a decade of marriage together and a love that is eternal. There's no one at fault, we believe this is the next best chapter in the evolution of our love," they continue.
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"We are incredibly grateful for the life-changing years we've spent together as husband and wife. We are also extremely thankful to God for the testimony being created inside us both and for blessing our lives with each other," the pair adds.
Six months before publicly sharing their decision to divorce, Good and Franklin posted anniversary tributes to one another to mark their ninth year of marriage.
Good and Franklin met on the set of their joint movie venture "Jumping the Broom" and later jumped the broom themselves after Franklin proposed. But it was after that proposal that the two made even bigger headlines, because they announced that they were waiting until marriage to have sex.
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Say what? Yes, two grown, attractive adults were setting aside their sexual desires for 13 months until their wedding night. They even shared their tips for others to do the same in the book called, The Wait.
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"It's been a journey.. I've been all about Him.. and then I've been rebellious," Good revealed on Instagram about the process that it took for her to get married. "I've been obedient and seeking him ..and I've been hard-headed and tried to do it my way.. but it all had to happen this way in order for me to get to where I am now."
"(It's) always much to be learned upon the journey. I couldn't (have) skipped anything in between....even when it's been tough.. or misguided," Good wrote to her fans. "I had to be who I was alone first -before I could become who I am in marriage....and we really are one in the same.. even though also different in maturities and experience... Just remember God's timing is always perfect ..and we can't rush it -or we do it a dishonor -because we're not always ready for what we think we are."
There were a lot of naysayers when the general public heard the news about the couple deciding to wait. Some said the marriage wouldn't last a year. Others said that it was too old-fashioned.
Now the naysayers can say what they want, but the couple did what they said they were going to do and got married. I believe the majority of us were rooting for them to stay together, but you never know what a person or couple is dealing with.
As recently as Dec. 2, Franklin took to social media and celebrated his beautiful wife and her newest series, the Amazon Prime Video breakthrough hit, Harlem. "I'm so proud of my love @Meagangood! She's one of the most talented actors on the planet AND she's funnier than you may know but I'm so glad you finally get a chance to see her do it all as Camille Parks in the new Amazon show #Harlem," he posted on Instagram.
Back in June 2021, Good shared a nearly 4-minute highlight reel of their relationship on Instagram.
"To the love of my life, my husband, purpose partner, happy anniversary!!" the Harlem star wrote. "This makes #9 and eternity you go! You are the best decision I've ever made (besides loving Jesus lol). I love you with everything inside me. In this life and in the next."
Who's to say what's next for the power couple--only God knows. Whatever they do--together or alone--we wish them the best.
