'I am blissfully happy' — Mona Monyane gushes over her man

Mona Monyane can't stop gushing over her man since she announced her engagement a couple of weeks ago.

Taking to her Instagram timeline Mona said she had two options in how she was going to live her life, and so far the one that's unfolding is the one where she is building a legacy with her fiancé. 

“So many women are told that their expectations for love are unrealistic, that we are asking for too much and that in the “real” world, women are content to just have a man in their lives. I have two options, either I build my empire like the warrior Queen I am and live happily ever after in love with God.

“Or I am blissfully happy, with a man who inspires me to be vulnerable and soft and feminine and fragile. A King who I build a legacy with, an alpha who guards my heart with his life,” she wrote

Speaking exclusively to TshisaLIVE, Mona shared more details, and revealed that her partner, a property developer, asked for her hand in marriage after a year together.

Mona's partner, whose identity she's concealed from the public in the interim, proposed when they were having dessert in a Cape Town restaurant after a stroll in a garden.  

“I have never felt more at peace ... the idea that I would consider getting married again was one I was far removed from but the way in which things have worked out I can only say this is God working in my life,” she said. “This person makes me feel brave enough to take that chance again.”

In a separate Instagram post she shared that she took time to heal. 

“I took a few years shem, to unpack. To unravel, to allow myself to truly feel pain. I took a few years to prioritise not only healing but also loving myself. It cost me a lot of friends, time, money, family ... It cost me making very scary choices and decisions that considered no-one else's opinion but my own. The darkness was real, especially because I never stopped believing, through it all, that I deserved better.”