Thread by @GbengaWemimo

There are things you wish you can "unknow".
Knowledge has a way of changing perspective and altering the course of one's life.
His wife was cheating on him, he knows it for a fact.
He had not confronted her about it. He didn't want to.
He regretted that he knew! It hurts

She was cheating with her former boyfriend! A guy she dated before meeting him! Those "old" flames that have refused to die! He was usually above the pettiness of jealousy but her clumsy attempt to pretend all was well was the first sign! He just kinda perceived her "fakeness"

It was the suspicion that made him observe other things! He got her lover's details and knew they met at a Hotel twice a week. He didn't know what to do! He loved her with all his being! When they met, she was broken and vulnerable, he nursed her, and loved her with all his heart

He picked her up by 11:45 pm at night, she was stranded! Her boyfriend of five years had suddenly left the country without warning! He also left with her life savings and didn't even leave a note. When she was told, she wanted to die! That was the night he saw her by the roadside

She was crying on and on!
He gave her a lift because it was a dangerous side of town and she would have been hurt! He took her home, paid her attention, helped her to get back on her feet and soon they were dating!
He married her two years later, their marriage had everything!

And yet she was cheating on him five year's later with the same guy who broke her!
His first instinct was to confront her
But that would end the marriage!
He didn't want the marriage to end
He just wanted her to stop!
He wanted her to do right by him
He wanted her to be his again

She tried to cover it up
She was not heartless or perhaps she was also trying to figure things out and avoid a scandal!
But the knowledge was killing him
When they make love, "he" was all he could think of
He wondered how she reacted to his lovemaking
If they ever talk about him!

Eventually he talked to her younger sister
He asked her sister to tell her to stop!
His wife came home eyes blazing!
"How dare you go to my sister, you have a low IQ, of all the people you can approach, it had to be her! Are you daft? Trying to make me lose respect in my family"

He apologized!
She wouldn't hear it
She packed her things and left!
He realized he had played into her hands
She had been waiting for an excuse to leave and he gave her one
She left him, without as much as a backward glance
He was left with two children
She dumped him callously!

He made attempts to mend fences
She wouldn't hear it
She travelled out of the country with her lover
She left him in pieces
His mother had to move in with him to help him with his children
He didn't hear from her for two years
He met someone else, a youth corper in his office

Love talks started
Youth corper was weary
She didn't want to marry a divorcee
Especially one with children!
He went all out even involved his mother in the wooing
Youth corper reluctantly agrees
They set a wedding date
Pictures were splashed on the social media
Then she surfaced

She had somehow managed to be dumped again
One Saturday morning she showed up with his pastor
Pastor talked
"It is a spiritual attack, she had a soul tie with the other guy! She had missed her children! She was out of her senses! Please forgive her! Count it not against her!"

He said no!
More pastors and elders of the families came
"She had realized her mistake, please let it go!
You have not remarried yet
Reconciliation should be the first option
Consider this because of the children
She was manipulated
You know how women are...
Please let it go!"

He wondered why they were mounting pressure on him
He had always been the reasonable one
Why do people leave the goat and trouble the sheep?
She came to his house one evening
She asked him to give her one date
"Just let me take you out, this once"
She pleaded!
He agreed

They went to a seafood restaurant
She made him laugh
She still had his buttons
It was a good night!
The restaurant was in a hotel
She had booked a room
One thing led to another
They made love!
For the first time, he felt they made love without a shadow in between them
It was good

The youth corper noticed that he was staggering, two months to the wedding!
She called the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
"Your brother has scurried his way into the ancient hole, his rat is lost in a maze!"
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt told her not to worry
The mist must clear

Two days later, Youth corper went to check him at home
Youth corper met her
She screamed at the youth corper
"You are not scared!
You want to come into a settled home
You are distracting my husband
Go find your own man!"
Youth corper left in tears
He was driving home
He saw...

He picked youth corper
Youth corper called off the relationship
He got mad
Went to his house
Threw his ex out
Called family and friends
"I don't want to see her again"

Went to youth corper
"She came to the house to wait for you, that was manipulative and cruel"

She is gone

The marriage held as planned
He married youth corper
One month after the marriage
He got a job in Lagos
They relocated from Calabar to Lagos
PS:
The marriage is three years old
They have a daughter
He says Youth corper saved his life
Youth corper says "I thought I had lost him"