My husband is doing everything possible to cut my friends out of my life. I don’t have a lot of them but the few I have, I keep them very well and they are the people I grew up with or found along the way when I needed friends. They’ve been great to me, have been there for me and have gone through thick and thin with me.

My husband doesn’t want to see these girls around me. He said he has to be my best friend, granted. He said he should be the shoulder I cry on, granted. He said he should be my everything, also granted. He’s everything he wants to be in my life.

These friends of mine know I’m married so they don’t involve me in their stuff as often as they used to. Once in a while, we go out when it’s the birthday of one of them or me. We also attend weddings of friends. My husband has blocked me from doing all that.

He intentionally burnt my dress with iron on the morning I was attending a wedding. He plugged the iron and left it on my dress. He laughed and said, “Who should be with me while you are away?”

Belinda called me one afternoon. Immediately my husband saw her name, he picked up the phone. The first question was, “What do you need my wife for?” When she told him she wanted to talk to me, he retorted, “If you had a husband, you wouldn’t be calling someone at this time. Marry and settle down so you can leave other people’s wives alone. A wife can’t be your friend.”

He knows Belinda very well and knows how far we’ve come. It was strategic. He wanted her out of my life. When I confronted him about it, all he said was, “I told her the truth. She’s too old not to have a husband.”

After doing that to me, he’ll go out there and drink with his friends. He’ll be on the phone with his friends talking about football and discussing the teams that spoilt their bet. He’ll bring a friend home to play video games.

According to him, men don’t talk about each other’s marriage. It’s women who’ll talk and compare what they get or do not get from their relationships.

He Got Me Pregnant And Also Got His Ex Pregnant

If he had given me a sign during dating that he’d turn out this way, I wouldn’t have considered him suitable for marriage. My friends are not my everything but the role they play in my life is everything no other person can do.

He’s not open to discussing this. He said his words are final. All he wants is me to be an island, lonely and cut out of the rest. What do I do to a man like this?

— Anita

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