He got home quite early the previous day and they spent time together with the children watching “Sound of Music”
Everything had been going on quite smoothly between
They had been married for ten years, he had five children!
The only major challenge she had was adopting her husband’s first son which he kept a secret from her while they were courting!
She felt he ought to have told her about the boy before they got married!
It mattered!
She had the right to know, she had the right to consider all the facts and make up her mind if she wanted to proceed with the marriage or not! That option shouldn’t be taken out of her hand!
Even her mother said “The boy will not sleep on your bed and his mother had remarried, so what is the problem?”
The problem was the deceit!
Once she took it once, he would offer it to her again!
She coped!
The boy was a sweet genius, extremely brilliant
She settled into her marriage properly
Her husband was a banker
She was a nurse
They were believers and they prospered!
Her husband built houses and acquired land for fish farming and
They travelled abroad often and they were set on course for a glorious future!
And then that Saturday morning came!
By 11AM all The Who is who in his family were seated!
They invited her into the sitting room and told her the news
Her husband has married another
She was seriously caught unawares!
She was dazed and befuddled!
Another wife?
Why?
The women in his family drew close to her
They wanted to touch her and calm her down
Her husband was rich and they were putting on a performance for him
She was fair game and she knew it!
After about thirty minutes of whispering and talking and pretending to care, they brought in the lady
She was pregnant
She was the daughter of the boli (roasted plantain) seller whose shop was on their street!
What!
That girl!
Had her husband gone mad?
The girl was barely literate!
Something was wrong!
She met her husband in the UK, he had a serious skirt chasing issue but he had a certain type of woman he fell for!
The girl was looking like a housemaid
Though she wasn’t prayerful and all but she knew the lady, her pregnancy and whatever she had with her husband was staged by an agenda of the lady’s family to move out of poverty!
Her husband was under the influence of powers beyond the physical!
His family members were puzzled, they expected a war!
She gave them a smile!
They left around 1pm
She went to her room and cried for two hours
Then she called her children and told them to dress up
She wanted to take them
They got on the road at about 5pm
She and her five children!
She didn’t tell anybody anything!
Her father left her a property in Lagos
The property was a building of four flats!
She rented out three and left one for herself and relatives who might have a business in Lagos to
They drove there
The drive took three hours from Ibadan!
They didn’t pick a pin from her husband’s house
She still loved him but she sensed that she and her children were in grave danger if they stayed!
Her husband had brought in the devil, why should they be victims?
She told them she was fine but she and her children will not live in a polygamous home!
Her husband should keep his new wife!
If he desired to be part of the children’s life, he can send their fees and
Her family members also called
They tried to persuade her
“Fight for your home”
You have ceded your territory to a stranger
People will say the second wife’s charms worked on you!
Blah! Blah!! Blah!!!
She knew what she saw
It wasn’t ordinary!
She will not fight for a man that refused to fight for himself or for her!
She refused to budge
She resettled in Lagos
After all his threats and pleas had failed badly
Her husband accepted her decision!
Her husband put her in charge of his business enterprise
He was transferred to Benin as Regional Manager of the bank he was working with
It took only 18 months
All the houses, farms, cars, animal feed factory and the hotel were sold off!
She got the phone call that her husband had suffered from stroke and was hospitalized in Ibadan!
She went to see him
He was in a terrible state!
One of his eyes was blind, his left
The doctors claim they do not know what caused the eye issue and spots but the caught the high blood pressure and stroke on time!
She called the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
She asked for help
The Lord Jesus came through for the family
He was discharged from the hospital with a slight limp on his left leg
He had lost everything!
He asked for her forgiveness
She forgave him
He moved into her flat in Lagos with her
They started rebuilding from scratch!
They were one year and five months old!
She cared for them like her own children and her children also took to them
Ps: Love prevailed
She said she never stopped praying for him
She knew it was not ordinary but she had to run away from the storm so that
It just didn’t add up for her!
He said he was sorry!
He wasn’t in control of anything and didn’t even know how he gave the second wife access to all his documents and properties carelessly!
Some people’s mission in your life is this!
Your wife is your fountain of joy, drink from her with joy
Let her breast’s satisfy you
If you insist on seeking what is not lost, your life will be littered with potholes of regret and pain!
Sir/Ma, be sensitive
There is a time to run
David did
Jesus did
So should you