He’s the one who initiated the divorce. I didn’t tell my parents. He did. When we were called, I said I wanted it to work. We had issues. It got escalated at certain times but I was hopeful a five-year marriage could survive.

It was about money and how I complained about the way he was spending our money. When we had our first child, he stopped being affectionate and stayed out for too long. I complained. I fought him. One day it turned physical. I didn’t back down. I left him a mark below his eyes. He stood on that mark to call for a divorce. He even made it a police case.

I apologized. I was ready to bear it all to be his wife. I didn’t even ask him to change anything. All I wanted was for him to drop the divorce talks but he didn’t. He went around insulting me to my parents, friends and whoever cared to hear. I didn’t want to move so he said he would move.

He would go for days and come and stay for a day. Our boy loved him so much that when he wasn’t around he cried and complained so sometimes he would stay for the child.

While we were in court fighting over our divorce, he would come home and spend time with his boy. One day, I don’t know what got over him, he jumped over me and we had sex. We hadn’t done it for over a year. He put on his battle robe right after that as if nothing happened.

I got pregnant.

He still wanted to leave the marriage so he wanted me to terminate it. I shook my head. “I’m a married woman. I’ll have this.” “Married to who? We are over.  We can’t have a child. If you don’t get rid of it, you reduce your chances of having another man after marriage. Who’ll marry a born two woman?”

The pregnancy is five months old and it’s coming up slowly. He’s embarrassed to show up wherever I am. He’s no longer living with me. When people tell him they saw me pregnant, he tells them I’m a whore that’s why he’s leaving me. I couldn’t wait for the divorce to be over to get pregnant for my cheating partner.

It hurts the way he’s getting away with lies. Apart from my family, no one believes me when I say he’s the one who made me pregnant. If I take this man to my home town and make bad things rain in his life, would I be a bad woman?

— Sally

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