My marriage was merely seven months old when I stumbled upon my husband’s secret lifestyle. I was breastfeeding our newborn baby by then, but I couldn’t hold myself. I sank into a sea of depression and almost lost my mind. All I wanted to do was to vanish from the face of this earth. I trusted this man so much that I never thought for a second that he had eyes for another woman. Only for me to find out that he has eyes for other women. He was sleeping with twelve women apart from me.
I wouldn’t wish for my worst enemy to experience what I went through. I felt our marriage was too young for me to walk away. Besides, it was the first time I had seen my husband do something like this. So I comforted myself and confronted him. You should see him on his knees apologizing. “I know it is wrong for me to cheat on you, but trust me, I am working on it. I want to be a man worthy of you. Don’t give up on me, please.” Humans err, do they not? And people change, don’t they? That is what I said to convince myself to forgive him.
I gave him a clean slate. I didn’t treat him like the man I caught cheating on me with twelve other women. He is a government worker but sometimes he comes home from work at odd hours. I am talking about 11:00 PM, 12:00 AM, 1:00 AM, and even 2:00 AM. When I complain he would also complain, “Honey, it’s not my fault. We are working on some projects and it’s taking so much of our time.” I believed him. I even became worried for him. I disliked his boss for overworking him. And I fussed over him whenever he got home. “You must be so tired,” I would say, “Did they at least give you dinner?”
There came a time when I had a problem with my phone. My husband got himself a new phone and gave me his old one to use. I changed the number on his WhatsApp to mine but I still had access to his old messages. I didn’t think to look at…..Continue Reading The Full Story...,
