This is the wife’s reaction after the story was shared: REACTION 

My wife has left home. It’s been almost two months. We had a fight, and right after the fight, she packed her things and left. Couples fight all the time, so I thought it was one of those things we would settle later and be us again. But as the days went by, it became very difficult to even reach her.

She told her parents I beat her mercilessly and even stepped on her. That didn’t happen, but I guess she said that so her parents would accept her back into their house. We fought. Unfortunately and regrettably, I threw my hand. It didn’t even land. She also threw one back, and I blocked it. That was about it.

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But she narrated a different story to her parents just to paint me black. I understand the anger, but everything happening now looks like my wife and my in-laws are stretching the issue.

I didn’t see my wife for two weeks because they wouldn’t allow me into their house. We have a three-year-old girl. She hasn’t gone to school since this issue because my wife is keeping her away from me.

I spoke to her dad one-on-one, man-to-man. I apologized. I even accepted all the lies she told about me so we could let bygones be bygones. When I asked him when I was going to have my wife back, he told me, “I can’t tell. She would have to decide. As for my mother-in-law, she doesn’t want to even see my face.”

We have a business we are running—me and my wife. I have an 8-to-5 job, but my wife doesn’t, so I established this business for her to be in charge. All the while she has been away, the shop has been closed. The people owing us are on a holiday. The business might go extinct if things remain like this for long.

When I finally met my wife and we talked, she told me the marriage was over and she wasn’t coming back again. Again, anger makes us go extreme with what we say. I believed the anger would thaw, and she would come back to her senses, but no. She keeps running from me. She won’t allow me to see our daughter. She screams and warns me not to come close to her.

Days ago, I heard rumours. They are rumours, so I didn’t assign any significance to them. The person told me my in-laws are supporting my wife to break our marriage because there’s a rich man in the picture. I didn’t believe it, but when I had the chance, I threw it like a bone to my wife, and she barked, “Believe whatever you hear, I don’t care. We are no longer married, so why do you care?”

She got pregnant while we were dating, so we hurriedly got married to cover up our shame. It doesn’t mean I didn’t love her. I did. She brought a lot of stability into my life, and I could settle with no one but her. Three years later, it’s beginning to look like I made a mistake. Maybe I loved her and wanted to settle with her. But maybe, she settled with me because she got pregnant, because I don’t know why a harmless fight like this should bring us to a standstill.

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What bothers me so much is how my in-laws are not doing anything to help our marriage get back on its feet. Good parents do it. They face the worst yet they are able to put the marriage above everything and make it work. Not these parents. They’ve become the wind beneath the destruction of this marriage, but when everything is said and done, I will have something to tell them.

I needed a place to rant—to let things off my chest. I’m glad I found this space. Currently, I don’t know if I have a marriage or not, but when things change, I will come with an update. If it stays the same, I will count my losses, step out there, and chase a new morning.

— Nelson

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