Thread by @GbengaWemimo

A forty five year old lady came to my office with her children for prayers before they returned to school! Her first child was a 15 year old lady, the second was a 10 year old boy! The mother said she was led to bring them to me because they were not doing well academically

We prayed!
As they were about to take their leave, the young lady said "Sir, can I talk to you alone?"
Her mother was shocked!
I had very little time to spare and wasn't prepared for that turn of event!
But it would be "unnice" to act impatient with the young lady
I said it is ok

The mother and the younger brother left for the reception
I called in one of my female colleagues (Didn't want to become famous overnight. Nobody trusts nobody these days)
The young lady said "Sir, I don't want to get married! I want to become a nun, I hate marriage! I hate God!

Apparently she was her mother's confidant! Her mother poured all the bile of her marriage in her right from the age she was old enough to understand words! Her mother was a believer, one of the old school types of Christian who didn't keep friends! She had no one else to talk to

Her mother didn't tell her about the good times! Apparently we humans keep the good to ourselves and share the bad! When her husband built a house, she didn't stop reminding the daughter that she was the one who supervised the project and dealt with the land grabbers with wisdom

All the girl heard from her mother was the gloom and doom of the marriage!
But I am privy to how much the marriage had thrived in the few years I have known the family!
I know the daughter had either not been updated or had been so wrongly stirred that's he cannot see the good

I invited the mother and the son back into my office after a while!
Then the ten year old boy also said "I want to talk to you too"
Wow!
So I decided to listen to him too
He said "My mummy is bad, she hates my daddy and she is always telling people bad things about my daddy"

He continued "My daddy is a good man, he is always crying at home! If he tells my mummy to do something for him, my mummy will says "I want to help you but I don't want the witches in your family to shoot their arrows at me"
So my Daddy does everything by himself! I am not happy!

I sat for a long time
I didn't know how to approach the issue
I prayed and waited
After about fifteen minutes, I put a call through to her husband, I asked him to come to my office
When he arrived
I asked the family to sit down
I told them to forgive me for what I was about to do

I turned to the wife and without mentioning the daughter's name asked her if indeed her husband was as terrible as her daughter portrayed!
She was shocked!
Even the incidents that she had forgotten or that she slanted the story to soothe her own narrative or outright lies!

The daughter remembered everything!
The daughter remembered her dreams in which she claimed she was attacked by witches from their father's family!
The daughter forgot nothing!
Her husband was in tears!
She was in tears!
The children were crying too
I told them
Forgive each other

Do it now in front of your children and mean it!
You have built a stronghold of woe and despair in your children's minds
You have practically ruined their journey before it began!
Couples will always have their issues
But we must open our eyes to see even as we cry
This is key!

Playing the victim unnecessarily to elicit sympathy from your children against your spouse is wirchcraft!
Manipulating the emotion of children is witchcraft!
Reporting your spouse to your children is witchcraft
Don't ruin their lives
Calling a gender "scum" is foolish!
Stop it!

The family bounced back gracefully
The young lady is now an undergraduate
The boy is now a teen
Its been four years
I have seen tremendous improvement in that family
The lady's witchcraft infested imagination was curbed
Her husband became less defensive and more transparent