I know Matilda Nti is playing Niles Valentine (the tapping ceremony was never going to happen)

90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days star Matilda Nti managed to trick Niles Valentine into marrying her, and I think that’s how it happened. Niles is a 27-year-old man from Mobile, Alabama. Autistic Niles described his struggles and how his condition affects his decision-making abilities, even in everyday life. Niles’ bluntness didn’t help him made many friends, but found a girlfriend online. Niles didn’t get along well with other people due to his autism, but with Matilda things were different.

Matilda is from Offinso, Ghana. Matilda is a 23-year-old girl with big dreams and a desire to leave her small town, where she has no job and needs to help her mother sell bananas since her father passed away. Although I don’t think it was a valid reason for Matilda to deceive Niles, she was feeling suffocated in her hometown and She thought of herself as someone who deserved better. Matilda had big ambitions and Niles would help her achieve them, although he seemed oblivious to all the warnings about Matilda potentially being a fraud.

How Niles and Matilda met is sketchy

How did Matilda find “Valentine” on Valentine’s Day?

I thought the story Niles told viewers about how he met Matilda was genuinely scary. Matilda and Niles didn’t know each other or have any friends in common when they met on social media. Niles remembers Matilda direct messaging him out of the blue. Matilda sent a message to Niles saying: “Hello Valentine. How are you”The date Matilda had the message sent was on February 15th and the time was 5:49 am. I found it strange that 20-year-old Matilda had randomly started talking to a stranger named “Valentine” on what appears to be Facebook on Valentine’s Day.

Niles himself added that he thought what was happening to him was too good to be true. I wonder if Niles was worried and thought he was being catfished because the woman in the profile pictures was so pretty. Niles and Matilda dated for two years. They talked every day, whenever they could. Niles gave his heart to Matilda when he told her he had autism, and she accepted Niles for who he was. Niles was the one who proposed to Matilda over the phone because he couldn’t wait any longer.

Matilda had already planned the wedding

Matilda just wanted Niles to do as she said

It was just five months before Niles and Matilda started filming 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days Season 7 that Niles proposed. Niles was very happy when Matilda said yes. However, I remember a worried Niles telling the cameras that he was surprised at how quickly things started to happen from there. Matilda was gone.”at full steam” and was planning everything for a wedding during her trip to Ghana. This started to stress Niles out. Niles assumed it was a cultural issue when Matilda started rushing the marriage process so early.

Matilda felt like “dying” when Niles called off the wedding

Matilda didn’t know what to do – it was never part of her plan

I believe Matilda’s reaction when Niles finally mustered up the courage to tell Matilda he wouldn’t marry her was genuine. She never expected him to cancel the ceremony or postpone it. Matilda’s dreams of reaching the US were falling apart. She told cameras that they discussed marriage when Niles was still in the United States. I liked how honest Niles was in telling Matilda that he wanted to get to know her better and that marrying her wouldn’t be possible until that happened.

“Like, now it’s embarrassing for me. People will laugh at me.”

Matilda tried to play mind games with Niles. She was angry that Niles hadn’t told her about his indecision sooner, as his family had already started preparations. Matilda was being irrational considering she was also marrying a man she barely knew. Everything that mattered to Matilda was going to marry an American man as soon as possible. I didn’t like how Matilda didn’t even like the ring Niles gave her as a sign of his commitment to her. I’m sure Matilda feared Niles would completely change his mind and realize she was deceiving him.

Matilda agreed to have a “beating ceremony” instead

Niles needed a family member to perform the ceremony

The “tapping ceremony“is a traditional Ghanaian practice in which the groom-to-be symbolically knocks on the door of the bride’s family to ask for permission to marry her. Matilda convinced Niles that if it wasn’t a wedding, he could do so to formally ask the family her blessings for the wedding. However, Matilda skillfully tried to make the ceremony as grand as the wedding itself. I was as surprised as Niles when he discovered that Matilda had invited 90 people to the event and expected him to pay for everything!

I thought Niles would have the best opportunity to make an excuse and leave Ghana as quickly as possible when Matilda revealed that Niles’ family was expected at the ceremony. Niles even told Matilda that his family didn’t like her and disapproved of his relationship with her. Niles should have listened to his family and not followed his heart to Ghana. Instead, he was skillfully manipulated by Matilda into speaking to a village elder named Mr. Arc, who Matilda thought could intervene and take on the role of Niles’ father during the beating ceremony.

Matilda manipulated Niles into talking to Mr.

Mr. Arc. Wasn’t a sympathizer – he was part of Matilda’s plan

It was Matilda’s idea for Niles to meet with Mr. Arc, the local community leader, to discuss his participation in the door knocking ceremony. Mr. Arc was the “family friend” in the end. Mr. Arc only had one solution when Niles mentioned that they were performing the door knocking ceremony. He told Niles that hitting was just a custom and that in Ghana Niles had to follow his culture and customs. As your “father” now, Mr. Arc wanted Niles to know that he would never agree to just do a knocking ceremony and go home.

“I would never allow that. And this is never done anywhere. Marriage is the custom.

I couldn’t help but notice that Matilda seemed happy that her plan was working. Mr. Arc managed to change Niles’ mind. When Niles told Mr. Arc how Matilda told him that a lot of money was involved in this, that he had to buy food for everyone in the family, which was 20 or 30 people, Mr. . “A simple wedding, that’s our custom,Mr. Arc continued. Niles wondered if Matilda was tricking him into paying for an expensive party.

Niles and Matilda get married in 2024

Matilda was able to fulfill her final wish

I really think an expensive party was never Matilda’s goal. Her goal was to marry Niles and get a visa. The money for the raid was the least Matilda would have been able to extract from Niles if he had not agreed to the marriage. However, the blogger 90dayfiance_alexa I discovered Matilda’s Facebook profile where although her page says she is “single,” a photo posted by the banana seller on September 16, 2023, shows her in a wedding outfit and suggests that she is married to Niles. THE 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days star could be on his way to America now.

90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days airs Sundays at 8pm EST on TLC.

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