''THIS is the story of my life, I
am not a loose woman, I am just a woman who loves her husband and didn’t
want to lose him. I just did what I had to do to save my marriage even
though I feel guilty sometimes. It was not easy but I slept with my
driver so that I could give my husband a child, but instead, God gave me
twins, a boy and a girl.
I was married to Phillip for
eight years, we had no child. The worst was that I never got pregnant
even for one day. His mother became so impatient that that she started
breathing down my neck as she gave me no breathing space at all. She
moved in to live with us and practically made my life unbearable in my
matrimonial home.
I cannot drink water or drop
a cup because she must insult me. It got to a point she stopped eating
my food because. According to her, I should be feeding my children so
that they would grow healthy and stronger, not her. “Monica, if you had
children you are supposed to be feeding them with all these food so that
they would grow healthy and strong. I am getting old so I don’t need
all these nonsense you call food. Take them away and give me grand
children” she would scream.
Even after she had left, I
could still hear those insults in my head so I decided to take a bold
step: I seduced and slept with our driver.
Before then, my mother-in-law
stopped talking to me. However, the only time she talks to me is when
she wants to insult me and remind me of how less a woman I was.
Phillip and I love each other so
much that he stood by me despite all his mother did or said to frustrate
me to leave him. We visited different specialist and they all certified
us medically alright. I have visited churches, held vigils and even
fasted for days, drank various concoctions of varied colors and
combinations all in the name of getting pregnant so that my
mother-in-law can stop humiliating me yet I couldn’t get pregnant.
It was just the three of us
living at home. God I was always terrified even when I hear her voice
from a distance. It is so agonizing to say these but my husband always
pleads with me to come out of the room and this makes him feel so sad
especially those times I refuse because I don’t want to come face to
face with the mother. When her trouble became too unbearable, Philips
practically threw her out of the house just to make me feel safe and
comfortable in my own home.
Okon is a young man in his
late 20s. He is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering but because he
could not get a good paying job, he opted to become a driver. I promised
to get him a good if he sleeps with me just once. However Okon thought I
just wanted to cheat on my husband with him. I planned it during my
ovulation so that I could get pregnant. Although it was not easy
sleeping with another man, I knew I was betraying my husband but I saw
it as a necessary action. After a month I discovered that I was
pregnant. So as promised, I got a job for Okon in a friend’s company
where he stated earning almost N150,000 per month. When I told Philip
that I was pregnant, he was so excited. “Sweetheart, God has finally
answered our prayers, I am pregnant,” I revealed.
When I was five months
pregnant, he informed his mother and she immediately returned to the
house. She pampered me like a babe and also took good care of me. I
never wanted to do any scan but my mother-in-law insisted. When I
finally did the scan, it showed I was pregnant with twins, a boy and a
girl. My mother-in-law and husband were extremely excited while I felt
fulfilled. “God, thank you for compensating me with a set of twins after
eight years of barrenness”, I muttered.
When the twins were born, the
girl took ill for some time. It took a while before she fully recovered
after several treatments and this got me worried. Philip and I insisted
that blood test be carried out on them to determine their blood group
and genotype and then came the shocking revelation. The doctor informed
us that although heir blood groups are both A, however their genotype is
AS for the girl and AA for the boy. Meanwhile Philip and I are both AA.
I wanted the ground to open and swallow me up because I felt Philip
would ask questions but to my surprise he didn’t. He just said: “Sweet
heart, let’s go home, we have had quite a long day, you and my babies
need to rest.
Three months later he held me
closely and said: “Monica don’t be scared, I don’t want to know who the
father of the twins is, I know whatever you did, you did it to save our
marriage and I am very proud of you: I promise to always love you and
my babies. I promise this will be a secret between us, I love you
sweetheart, I know we will have our own children someday.” I wept as he
wiped my tears with his hands.
I know what I did was wrong
but at least my mother-in-law is extremely happy with me. That is all
that matters. Although everyone is happy, but I feel guilty that I
selfishly used an innocent man to achieve my aim. But before anybody
judges me, just put yourself in my shoe and think for a moment, what
will you do?''
Guys if you are the husband, what would you do?
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