Will this Marriage last?

Jane was in a courtship with Samuel, of which they agreed they would never allow anyone into their affairs when they get married in case they have Misunderstandings, in fact, "third party is highly prohibited"....they both said.

One of the causes of such decision was what Jane told Samuel about how her mother allowed a friend to have talks in her marriage, the friend that she trusted to be a good person but ended up destroying her marriage and snatched away her husband. Jane's mother became a single mother who raised Jane and her younger ones alone without the help of their father and his family. Jane's mother refused to remarry after her husband had left her, she had been single mother for 18 years.

No sensible lady would want to undergo what Jane's mom went through. This and other problems of third party in marriage made her plead with Samuel that they must not allow third party when they marry each other.

Samuel had always been a very handsome and attractive man, tall, gentle and intelligent, and he was doing well financially, he worked in one of the biggest oil companies in the country. In fact, he was a guy every lady would like to live with for the rest of her life. But one problem Samuel had was that he was the very Jealous kind of guy. Jane noticed it, but she counted it as a very small thing that did not need to be considered, seeing how caring and loving he was towards her. Jane said inside her;

"every man would do anything to protect her woman, even if he's jealous, it's a sign that he loves me".

Their first fight came up on their wedding day. You would say "wedding day?!!!!! Yes, it was. Normally, wedding day ought to be a great day of full joyousness and tremendous gladness, but for Jane and Samuel it turned a fighting day.

This was how it happened; everywhere was set, they had finished the church aspect of the wedding, the pastor had joined them together, blessed and prayed for them.

They moved to the Event Hall they rented for the reception, the MC (Master of ceremony) was making everything so interesting with the sweet words coming from his mouth, the guy was so humorous. The DJ (disk jockey) was also very good in his work, he played beautiful Wedding songs.

Their parents were glad everything was going colourfully, Guest were great in their numbers, friends from all walks of life were in attendance, even Jane's ex- boyfriend was also in attendance.

The name of Jane's ex boyfriend was Anthony, they could not get married as a result of the fact that they were both medically advised not to, so as to avoid complications, and not to put their unborn children into serious medical troubles.

Before that day, Samuel was well informed about Jane's past, even the reason why she couldn't marry her former lover "Anthony" and not that they quarrelled.

When it was time for the presentation of Gifts, Anthony stood up, and went to the front and presented his Gift to the couple, and he gave Jane a hug, and he went away.

Just immediately the presentation of the Gifts ended, Samuel called his wife to one corner outside the reception, and angrily asked her; " why did you let that your Ex- boyfriend hug you chest to chest?! You think i was not watching you both?! Tell me now before you see my red eyes! " Jane became muted for some seconds, as she could not really understand what Samuel meant because she never took the hug as anything, more so, many friends hugged her, but Samuel was just too concerned about the hug from Anthony.

Jane then asked him; "why are you feeling bad about Anthony's Hug?! Before she could know, Samuel gave her a hot Slap on her face. She was shocked her husband did that to her, because he never got angry at her ever since they met. She started crying and ran out his presence with tears.

...........To be continued.

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Lead image by NIKITA SHIROKOV on unsplash.com

First image by juan pablo rodriguez , second image by Drew Coffman on unsplash.com