MY WORLD
Chapter 6
….I couldn’t help but imagined how my wife could change that much in a few months,at first I was trying my best to understand her,coming to terms that I had issues with Making babies was difficult.it was difficult for me,let allow my wife, nevertheless when it kept affecting us negatively,it was a course for concern.,I couldn’t help but wonder how my sweet charming and loving wife could change that much.
Sometimes I’d touch my wife at night,been that I missed her,for intimacy and love making,she would just ignore me like I am a stranger.i couldn’t take it anymore,one night,I had to speak out.honey what’s going on,I asked,why are you doing this,you are my wife,why are you depriving me your body,did I offend you?,if I did,I am really very sorry,I pleaded.
I actually thought my words would touch the fertile part of her heart,,but unfortunately,I got the biggest response of my life.what is the essence of making love to you,she asked me?,what are you talking about,I asked.
Oh please spare me that hypocratic attitude,you can not make me pregnant,why then should I waste my time and energy in love making.i was speechless at first,later I regained my voice.
Honey,so you will deprive me the joy of matrimony because of my medical condition,this is not fair and you know it.if you were in my shoes,or you had issues ,I would have stood by you, because I really do love you,and my love for you is not conditioner.Have you forgotten how I stood by you when maami was putting pressure on youuuuuu,oh spare me that rubbish,she interrupted me,I am beginning to understand everything properly.no wonder you were not bothered,you were pretending to be a caring and loving husband, defending me from your evil mother,acting like assistant Jesus,I was thanking God for blessing me with a husband like you,not knowing you were simply pretending.you have always known you were the one with the problem,no wonder you didn’t want us to visit the hospital,you were saying God will give us children, God will give us children,with or without us visiting the hospital, meanwhile you were having that stands for your selfish interest,chai Temi,you are something else.
Temi??, Honey you now call me TEMI,you have always called me by the last four layers of my name TOPE not the first four letters,,so what changed Tobi,I asked.Oh please,drop it,I can call you which ever and what ever I dim fit,Tobi said.
I didn’t know anything about my health issue before that day, the result came out,I had no ideal, I was as confused as you where and you saw it.i said,oh please stop the drama, your mother was making my life a living hell whenever she came visiting,for something that was no fault of mine.she said, well,now that I know and it has been confirmed that I am medically fit,let her try it again,let her try it….
It was a heated argument that day,I just had to allow her be for peace to reign that night.
The love and compassion I shared with my wife was gone,I was alone and lonely in my own home,I felt MY WORLD had crumbled,she cooks for me when ever she likes,and doesn’t when she isn’t in the mood,she greets me when she is in a good mood,and doesn’t when she is not.when it comes to prayers,she became very very very backward,she doesn’t pray at all,,,,this was a woman that was praying every minute when she thought she had issues,okay join me and pray, I’d tell her,but she’d never do.praying for God’s blessings of children became a taboo.
Mama came visiting one time,she refused her entering,asking her to wait , that the person she came to see, obviously me, wasn’t around.i was so surprised when mama called to tell me she was locked out by my wife.i had to rush from the office to the house.mama why are you outside,I had asked,is it not Tobi your wife,it is Omoigbo,she asked me to stay outside in my own son’s house,I have never been this humiliated walia, mama explained…
Calm down mama,please calm down,there must be a reason for this,please mama.i knocked at the door,and Tobi opened .
Honey what happened? why did you ask mama to stay outside,what happened.Nothing happened Mr Man,you and I know your mother is annoying,and she definitely didn’t come to see me,so I asked her to wait for you to return her beloved son,Tobi said…
What?, Tobechukwu,you asked my mother to seat outside,in my house,what is wrong with you,what has come over you,how could you do a thing like that,I shouted.she hissed at me and walked out on me.mama was surprised,omomi is this what you are going through in this house now,how can you allow a woman disrespect you in such manner,for what?, she asked.mama please stop it,please,I don’t need this right now,my wife is going through a phase,it will pass,it’s not easy accepting all we are going through,oh shut up Temitope,mama interrupted,are you the first to have medical challenge, it’s not as if your case is completely hopeless,the doctor said there is a possibility of you fathering a child,a good woman stands by her husband in difficulties,a good woman surppots her husband,a goodddddd,mama enough,I interrupted her,a good mother inlaw dose all that you have listed and more,when you thought she was the cause of our delay at first,did you do all that you are listing now.mama please let me be,you are the architect of my problem.so drop the act.i said and walked away to the bedroom….
Honey I understand the whole thing may be hard on you,but sweetie,don’t you think you are taking this thing way too far,what happened to us?,what Happened to my wife.Tobechukwu,I love you and you know it,please stop hurting me like this.i know mama had offended you in so many ways,but baby,two wrongs dose not and will never make a right..mama is sorry,and regrets all her previous actions,don’t you think we should start afresh on a new slate as a family,and together scale through this challenge….
She looked at me,and I was hoping it was for the good,only for her to say I’M JUST GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR MOTHER AND YOU…..
Written by
Delis Juliet
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