Back To Where She Started...Worse Off.

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No one can tell you the truth more than you should tell yourself. This is the story of Leah who knew she wasn't ready for marriage but everyone in her life seemed to think she is. It's hard when you have the traditional kind of parents who want to have everything figured out about your life and would even jump the gun for you when you prove incapable.

Leah had to run away from home by picking up a job in another city so she can avoid her mother's constant song about getting married. She once told Leah that she was wasting her beauty away if she won't make hay while the sun shines. Leah knew what she wanted and wouldn't just go with any guy because people said so. She was taking her time but her parents were in charge of the clock.

It has been a while since she visited home and she took it upon herself to honour her mother's invitation to come home after several turndowns. She left work early that Friday and decided to head home. Her mother waited till she was certain that she would come home before she set the ball rolling on her plans. She had already given her measurement to the fashion designer who would help her carve her native attire. Leah didn't know she was walking into her Introduction to Marriage - where both families would have to get to know each other and pick a date for the wedding.

The choice was taken completely away from her but she didn't know what she was walking into. She got home late that Friday and went straight to bed. She was woken up by her little sister and mother who told her to get dressed and she was given the native attire to wear. She was confused as she wasn't told they would be attending any wedding until her sister told her it was her introduction and her in-laws would soon arrive.

Sleep completely went off her face and she screamed and shouted. She did all sorts until her father stepped in and spoke with her. She was unhappy because she didn't even know who the guy is. After she dressed up, that was when she asked her little sister who the groom is. Jackson is their family friend and he has asked her out several times but met a brick wall. Jackson went straight to Leah's mother to make his intentions known and that was how Leah's mother took it upon herself to plan the life of her child.

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The introduction took place and the wedding date was fixed. Leah tried to get to know him during that courtship phase because the wedding and all Jackson was, was to be sweet to Leah. They got married and that was when Leah saw what she was in for. Jackson is the type of man that thinks a woman doesn't have a say. You just have to do what he says and no questions must be asked.

She already transferred to the state her parents live since that's where her husband also resides. The official car they gave Leah at work was taken over by the husband. Leah had to lie times without numbers that the car was faulty or she parked in another place since their office car park is always crowded. Jackson went to Leah's mother to discuss with her that he has a landed property which he hopes to develop so she and Leah can move in together into a house of their own. The mother called Leah straight away and told her to always support her husband with money for the building of the house.

Every month she would give money to her husband but every time she asked to go to the house to see the progress, Jackson would turn it into a fight until she stopped asking. It went on for a long time until one day she took time off work without telling Jackson. Jackson thought she had gone to work but she waited around to see where her husband would go. He didn't only drive her office car to the bar where he was with friends and other ladies, it was in that instant she knew Jackson didn't even have a job. She made sure she walked by so Jackson can see her and he saw her. He stood up and dragged her to the side before they both headed home.

She confronted him and he confessed to lying about his job because he was laid off just a month before their wedding. She asked him about the landed property because if he could have lied about that, she wasn't certain there are other things he wasn't lying about. He confessed also that there was no landed property. So, he has been using her money to drink and go around with ladies.

Who will she tell her story to? She was already 5 months gone with pregnancy. She summoned the courage to go to work that day and by the time she came back, she noticed the house was empty as Jackson had not only packed out of the house, he had taken away most of the gadgets and other things in the house. Leah didn't even stress herself, she picked up some of her clothes, left the house and went straight to her father's house.

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It is really important to know a person deeply especially when planning to get married. It's like it's Leah's job to work and earn for her husband while the other act like a teenager.

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2 years ago

It was really shameful and I felt her pain. Parents sometimes don't help matters with their unnecessary pressure.

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2 years ago

I seriously hate it when parents do something like this and interfere in their children's life when they fully know they aren't the one that will bear the full consequences when things go terribly wrong

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2 years ago

That is what annoys me the most. They won't always be around for long yet they will create a problem that others would be the one to suffer for.

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2 years ago

You are such a top writer. I would find it impossible to write about noncrypto on a daily basis

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2 years ago

Hahaha. I wish I can write about crypto post but I know soon I would...

Thank you so much 🤗

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2 years ago

Oh, what a terrible story. This is why some parents should not meddle in their child's business. I mean, based on the story, Leah is independent and she didn't seem to be bothered about being unmarried. She is living her life the way she wanted to be and then her parents would marry her off to an irresponsible man?Come on. What a shame!

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2 years ago

A big shame. She was independent and living her life but they felt they knew better and disrupted her journey. It's really not fair to Leah.

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2 years ago

What a sad story, as bad as it might look, alot of people are really falling into that same trap. Some parent are the cause of their children bad marriage, may God help us all

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2 years ago

I absolutely agree with you and a big Amen to that.

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2 years ago

I love the move she took straight to her father´s house. What is wrong with our parents sef? Can´t they allow their girls take time to choose for themselves? Now, they will see for themselves what they have turned their girl into.

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2 years ago

Exactly. If she decides not to listen to them again even if she is doing the wrong thing, she would be justified. They ruined her life even before she started.

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2 years ago

Of course, they won't even blame her anymore. How she wan take start with pregnancy again? Life of a single mother has started 😁

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2 years ago

Exactly. See the trouble they dragged her into.

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2 years ago

Parents who love deciding the marital choices for their children, all to soothe their selfish needs and desires. I just hope Leah's father takes her in, I'm pretty sure he and his selfish wife would be filled with so much regret after seeing their 5months old pregnant daughter without an husband

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2 years ago

Parents don't know they are doing more harm than good when they push their children around. No doubt, that mother would be the one to raise that baby because that girl would either leave that city or try to find her feet somewhere else.

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2 years ago

That is why sometimes, it is better to run away from our parents as sometimes they are the one who put their children's futures at risk. I couldn't really imagine if I was on Leahs's foot, I think I would never forgive my parents for ruing my life, God would forgive me. Choosing our partners are choosing our future and so parents should not be the one who'd decide about that matter for their children's.

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2 years ago

They should never be the ones to decide something as sensitive and serious as that. It's never going to end well. I pity Leah.

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2 years ago

What a sad ending! Good thing my parents was never like this. They never interfere our love life though they gave thier comments sometimes

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2 years ago

Exactly with my parents. They never forced anything relationship when they were alive.

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2 years ago

And that's made us lucky Ola! Hehe

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2 years ago

Extremely lucky.

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2 years ago

Surely two people will die first my mother and then Jackson, Jackson will be chopped into pieces and his body thrown sent out to the four corners of the earth, what kind of life is this, I keep on telling people that there is nothing worst like arranged marriage, you have no idea who the person is and you just agree to marry the person just because your parents say so, that's no fair most especially to the ladies sef

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2 years ago

🤣🤣😂😂. It's true, it's not fair and no one should be forced to do that especially when it is not even in our culture here. She had to live with the consequences of the choices her parents made for her and the poor child would suffer lack of father love too.

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