Now, tell me if I’ll be wrong to divorce my wife the day she’ll cry over the death of her mother or father.

When my dad died, my wife was away working. I called early morning and told her my dad had died. She sighed and said sorry and gave me the biblical line; “God gives and he takes away.”

I wanted more from her. I felt she would come back home over the weekend to be with me knowing I was alone. She didn’t come. “Work was so stressful I thought I needed some rest.”

I went home to stay with my mom and other siblings so I could have some company. I spoke with my wife every day. She never for once asked how I was dealing with the death of my dad, knowing very well how I was close to my dad, especially in the last four years of his life. I was hurt but I thought she was dealing with her own stress so I should give her some space.

Three weeks after my dad’s demise, she came back home. For some reason when I saw her, I broke down. It was the first time I was talking to her face-to-face about my dad’s death and everything that had been happening. I wasn’t crying but was acting out my feelings and pent-up emotions. She told me, “Your dad was seventy. Why are you acting like he died a teenager? Ain’t you a man again?”

It wasn’t her words that hurt me most but what she said made me realize her actions since my dad’s death was intentional. To her, I should wipe it off like wiping sweat off my face. I told her, “This is the last time I’ll share any news about my life with you if you honestly think I’m overreacting.”

Dad has been buried and I’m still carrying the pain of his departure with the way my wife treated me in my heart. I haven’t opened up in a long while. I’m happy when I’m out. I become introverted when I’m in the house. I see her as a tree because she doesn’t have emotions. I’m not praying for the death of her parents but I swear if she shares a tear, or expresses sadness when her parent die, our marriage will come to an end that day.

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A parent’s death shouldn’t be anything, I understand her opinion. She has to be consistent with that opinion until eternity. Unless I die before any of her parents die. I’m pained and she knows it but it doesn’t matter to her and it’s alright as long as she doesn’t express emotions over the death of anything around her.

— Efia

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