“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.”
