One thing the internet never knows how to do is allow people to grieve relationships quietly. The moment a marriage ends publicly, social media immediately begins searching for someone to blame. “Someone must have cheated.” “Someone must have lied.” “Someone must be the victim.”
The moment news about Frank Edoho’s divorce spread again, social media immediately went into investigation mode. Old podcast clips resurfaced. Past opinions about cheating and relationships were reposted. People began quoting things he once said years ago and comparing them to where he is now emotionally.
People were not only reacting to the end of the marriage itself. They were reacting to Frank Edoho’s comments about relationships, commitment, cheating, and emotional exhaustion. Then came reactions to statements from his ex-wife, Sandra, and suddenly the internet picked sides almost immediately. The entire conversation stopped being about two people whose marriage ended. It became another online gender war. 
Somewhere between the debates, the dragging, the “men are this” and “women are that” conversations, people forget that divorce is not just content. It is usually humiliation, disappointment, anger, silence, regret, ego, sadness, and emotional exhaustion happening all at once.
Perhaps the real question is this: why do people become so emotionally invested in celebrity marriages they were never part of?
Real relationships are rarely as simple as social media wants them to be. Social media struggles with complexity. The internet prefers simple stories. One person must be innocent. One person must be toxic. Somebody must become the bad person so people can comfortably choose sides and continue arguing in comment sections.
People were analysing podcast clips like courtroom evidence. Others were reposting old interviews to “connect the dots”. Some defended Sandra passionately. Others defended Frank even more passionately. And in the middle of all this, I kept wondering: do we actually care about the people involved, or do we just enjoy the spectacle of broken relationships online?
Maybe the truth is that nobody outside the relationship truly knows what happened. Not the podcasts. Not the interviews. Not the tweets. Not the comment sections.
ALSO READ: “A Man Can Love You & Still Be Unfaithful, But a Woman” – Frank Edoho’s Candid Thoughts on Cheating
WRITTEN BY: LAWANSON REBECCA
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