My husband said I am useless & jobless because I don't support financially in the house. I depend on him fully, So l left the kids with him for two days to do my job.
I depend on him for everything.
He said that to me in front of our visitors and his friends, just because I asked him for money to buy a bag of pure water.
He threw the money at me angrily and kept nagging about me "sleeping all day doing nothing."
I have reached my breaking point.
For years, I poured myself into this home-four boys, one toddler girl, and a husband who thought money was the only contribution that mattered.
Day after day, I washed, cooked, scrubbed, taught, bathed, consoled, and prayed.
Yet all he ever gave me in return were words that stung deeper than knives.
Insults upon insults that rang in my ears every night as I dragged my tired body to bed, too exhausted to even cry.
But this Saturday morning, I made up my mind to be the woman he wanted. I woke before the children stirred. I looked at little Amanda, my baby girl, breathing softly in her sleep.
I kissed her forehead, whispered a prayer over her, and for the first time in years, I didn't tie a wrapper around my waist to start sweeping. I picked up my bag, tiptoed to the door, and slipped out.
When I got to my cousin's house, I sat on her couch and just... breathed. My shoulders dropped as if I had been carrying cement blocks all my life.
I requested food, and my cousin handed me fried rice, turkey wings and Hollandia.
No kids to drag with me.
It felt like a national holiday in my chest.
My cousin is a busy woman who pays a nanny to do the chores and take care of her two kids.
Her husband lives abroad.
I asked her for an advance payment so I could work for two days. She was happy her children would be in trusted hands, so she agreed and paid me #25,000.
Few hours later, her kids were napping, the whole house was cleaned by me.
Since I am a mother of five, plus a grown man I take care of it was almost too easy to handle.
