Where Do You Go From Here?
I read a story yesterday and it got me thinking about humans generally and about children that I wrote about for a few days now. It was the story of a young man with 2 wonderful children and a loving wife. The husband lost his job during the covid season as an Engineer. Thankfully, the wife still got her job as a Nurse. The husband thought to himself one morning since being a Nurse is a hot cake out there abroad, he pitched the idea to his wife so she can go abroad to work while he would come and join her later with their two daughters.
He had enough in his savings, so that wouldn't be a problem for him to pay for all she needed to travel with. He helped her draft her resume and applied on her behalf. As fate would have it, she got the job but they didn't allow her family members to come yet. The condition was it would be under a year or two...nothing was certain. The husband asked her to take the job and be good at it so it can facilitate their coming. She left Nigeria for Canada and he was saddled with the responsibility of taking care of their children.
He was doing some jobs on the sideline just to keep things moving at least, for the sake of his children. The mother was scheduled to visit after 6 months when the children are on holiday so they can spend quality time together. She came into the country and noticed that her daughters have become rude to her husband. She rebuked them but asked the husband what the matter was. He told her she always restricted them from going out so that must be their way of revolting. It didn't sit down well with the wife.
She was due to leave and she asked the children what the problem was and they said every night, their dad used to come around to sleep with the two of them. She couldn't believe her ears and she called her pastor right away. He came around and the children repeated the same thing they told their mother and even the same thing when the mother confronted their dad. The father just stood there, shocked, buried his hands on his face and still pleaded he didn't do anything.
Eventually, the mother took the children away after 3 months because she allowed them to live with her pastor before she finally came to pick them up. The man got called back to his job and was given a hefty compensation package. He got married after a year to a friend who stood by him during those dark days even though they were not romantically involved. The mother saw the pop up on Facebook and was cursing the father right where the children were when the youngest confessed that their father didn't touch them nor rape them. She said they lied about it so they can quickly leave the country with their mother since they are not sure of how long it would take for them to finally relocate.
It's a very crazy story that should have been settled with common sense. We need to understand that children can be so tricky and the era of children being innocent had gone especially with the era we are in. The world is messed up and a lot of things influence these children. Who would have thought the children would cook up such a lie against their father who they used to be fond of. The wife claimed she believed the story at first because there is an adage in my language that says, "The dog that sees you today and wagged his tail and if that same dog sees you the next day and greeted you by barking, then there is something wrong."
She decided to allow common sense to be kicked to the curb because she lacked basic trust. I am not saying it's easy for her but what I am saying is, even if she wanted to doubt her husband, she could have at least taken the children to the hospital to ascertain this claim by the children. She went with her feelings which makes me understand one thing about humans; we always want to believe what we have been thinking about most of the time. It was easy for her to believe that because, who knows, maybe she has gotten comfortable over there and there is someone around the corner showing interest in her because you don't just go from full trust to zero without at least weighing both sides of things.
She didn't just get children who are capable of doing the worst thing in a foreign land, she lost her husband and her peace of mind too. If those children can do that to their father, she should understand that they would turn on her in a foreign country if they don't have their way and she is trying to restrict them. It's shocking to see the depth of darkness that the human mind can conceive, not to even talk of children.
Where would she go from here? Ask the ex-husband to leave his new bride that was there to pick up the pieces when he was accused of what he didn't do without a benefit of the doubt? She would plead for mercy and become the second wife all over again? What then happens to the new wife? How will she view her children going forward and how would the husband feel about those children too? There are a lot of questions than answers.
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At first i wanted to blame the husband, but when I read the full story, i then saw she allowed her emotion to controlled her to take such irreparable step. Hmm! At least she should have done research to ascertain if what her daughters were saying was true or false. She really made a mistake! Now she has lost such a good husband. This is a life lesson to all us to confirm something before we that any step.