I’m a child of cheating. Anytime people ask about my opinion on cheating, I feel like talking against it will mean I don’t deserve to exist. So I keep my opinions to myself. I’d rather not say anything about it until recently I shared my story with my boyfriend and he said, “Maybe you’re the one and only advantage of cheating.”

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Here’s my story…

My mom traveled to a new town and didn’t have a place of her own to stay so she contacted an old friend who, after talking to her husband, agreed to give my mom a place to stay until she found her own place. My mom moved in there and a few weeks later, she started sleeping with her friend’s husband.

She confessed that she had grown to like the man because of how the man treated his wife, that’s my mom’s friend. They kept this affair going right under the nose of this innocent woman until my mom got pregnant. The man shivered and said he didn’t want to destroy his marriage so my mom should lie about the owner of the pregnancy.

To make things easy, this man found a place for my mom and paid for it. Her friend helped her move into this new place and helped her settle in. When later her friend found out she was pregnant, my mom mentioned another man at her workplace as responsible for the pregnancy. This my mother’s friend never knew the secret until her husband confessed about it on his deathbed.

My mom went ahead to marry another man and gave birth to my two siblings. I’m the only one who had the head for learning so I completed the university and had a good place in life. Me that I’m saying I have a good place in life koraa, it’s not anything extraordinary so you can imagine the situation of my other siblings.

I’m the one who takes care of my mom and my stepfather. My half siblings call on me in everything concerning money. I’m the cornerstone now; without me, my house can’t stand. So I ask myself, “What if my mother didn’t cheat? What would have become of her in her old age?”

I’m also here enjoying life and a relationship with the man I love with all my heart. What if my mother didn’t cheat? I wouldn’t have had this life? To be able to love and be loved? I wouldn’t belong to this place all because my mom decided to keep her vagi]na to herself out of piety?

Three Months After Our Breakup, He Got Married

I told my boyfriend, “I don’t speak against a cheating incident that has already happened but I can tell someone not to do it. I won’t cheat too because, regardless of who I am today, I find it hard to share my story. Deep down I feel like a piece of shame.”

—Faith

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