My husband was out of town on the 9th of February for work. This wasn’t new. It’s something that comes up very often. He travels from time to time for work and comes back days later. This time around, he was supposed to return on the 15th. It was later that it came to mind that I was going to do Valentine’s without him.

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I sent him messages that day, and he sent a few back. He said he didn’t plan his trip well. He forgot there was Valentine’s. He would have planned it in such a way that he would be home for us to celebrate. Even then, we made plans for the following weekend when he would be in town.

I’m six months pregnant and can’t do much, to be honest. Even if he were here, we would have been home watching TV or gossiping.

He returned on Sunday morning, and I quickly picked up his dirty clothes to wash for him. Guess what I found? A hotel receipt in his front pocket and then a restaurant receipt too. The hotel is in Accra, where we both live. I lined up the two receipts and told him, “Can you explain these two receipts? Does it mean you were in Accra yesterday?”

He fumbled for what to say. He picked the receipts up and looked at them as if it was the first time he was seeing them. He asked, “Are you sure you found these in my pocket? I don’t remember going to this place. I wasn’t even in Accra, so how come?”

This guy has been lying since Sunday. It’s not the fact that he cheated that’s breaking my heart. It’s the lies, the antics, and the fact that he’s making me look like a mad person. He’s now telling me I’m doing all that because of pregnancy hormones.

He made one of his friends call to attest that indeed he was with him outside Accra and that the receipt thing must have been a mistake. I told him, “If I take you to a shrine and ask you to swear, would you be able to do it? If I give you an egg to swear on it, can you?”

He too started fumbling and faded back to wherever he came from.

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My BP is skyrocketing because I can’t sleep. I’ve been thinking, and everything makes me angry. I see him, and I feel like I should attack him physically. I still have the receipts. I have told him I will get to the bottom of it, but honestly, I don’t know what next to do. He knows he’s dead if I find out the truth. That’s the reason he’s doing everything to change the story.

—Maureen

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