Friday, 16 August 2013

This is Coming from a (young) Mother of Three



“I just can’t figure out what came over him that night. It was just a month after I was discharged from the hospital; I had had a stillbirth and had not even recovered from the shock; of course you know I wouldn’t have recovered from the pain of losing my baby… I was still under treatment. A night came when my husband returned home. I was already fast asleep in bed with our three children. They are all girls (the stillborn was also a girl). When my husband came in that night, he woke me up that he was ready to sleep and believe me, all I said was, “Go and sleep in the other room now, please!” That was all! Would you believe what followed? He went directly to the fridge, brought out cold water and emptied all of them on all of us –my children and me! We never had any quarrel before that night. Isn’t life cruel? I just stood up, carried my children and we vacated his bed without a single word. But I was hurt. My pain is that he has not showed any sign of regret since then; he never apologized one day. Now, I don’t know the next thing he’s going to do to us. That’s my fear.”

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