He lives in Accra and comes home every once in a while. That’s how our relationship started, and it has been like this for the past three years. My plan was to secure a job in Accra and move closer to him, but no matter how hard I try, no company wants to hire me.

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He came home one late evening and called me to come and see him. It was very late, so I told him I would see him the next morning. He got angry and accused me of not missing him. “How could I be away for this long, and I’m here, and you don’t want to see me? Don’t you miss me like I do?”

I picked up my small bag and walked through the night to get a car to his place. When a man says he misses you, there’s only one thing involved, and it’s the reason I didn’t want to go because I knew I couldn’t give him that. When he started getting touchy, I told him, “I’m on my menses. It’s the reason I didn’t want to come.”

He asked, “And so what? Do you know how much I’ve missed you?”

He made me understand that no matter what, the game had to go on because he had missed me. I wasn’t comfortable, but I had to satisfy my man, so I allowed him. The next morning, he traveled to another town to attend the funeral of a family patriarch.

A few weeks later, my body started acting out of place, as if it no longer belonged to me. I thought it was malaria, then I thought it was stress. I thought it was so many things until the hospital asked me to do a pregnancy test. I laughed at them but did it anyway to prove my innocence.

The test came back positive. I was shocked. “How did that happen? I was on my men… oh no.”

I did the test three times, and it all came out positive. I called to deliver the news to him, and he laughed at me. “Do you think I’m a small boy? I may not know everything, but I know biology. What are you telling me?”

I didn’t blame him. If I were him, I wouldn’t believe me too. He said it wasn’t possible for me to get pregnant at that time. I said I thought the same too, but it’s here, so we should think of what to do. He says I’ve cheated. He said I’m bringing another man’s child to him, so he no longer picks up my calls or responds to my messages.

It’s Not God’s Law For A Man To Apologize To A Woman

It hurts so bad that we are in this situation, but it hurts more knowing he doesn’t trust me after I’ve remained loyal to him all these years. I will give birth. He’ll come and do a DNA test, and we’ll take it from there, but I know this destroys everything we’ve built over the years, and that’s my greatest pain.

—Fibi 

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