Rehema came home running and panting.
Her mother was attending to her potato vines in the backyard.
“Mum, I am home” Rehema called while knocking at the door.
“Yes I am here, who is it?” replied Rehema’s mother
“It’s me your daughter,” Rehema answered. The mother left her activities in the field and quickly returned, she found her daughter who had just arrived from the City where she lives with her husband.
From the look of things, there is trouble where she came from.
“Hey, tell me, my daughter, what happened to you? What brings you here in such a situation?” she asked
“I can’t take it anymore, mother, I’m tired of my husband, I’ve decided to come back, I’m tired, I’d better stay at home, mother” explained Rehema.
Her mother looked at how she had become a prostitute and said to her, “My daughter, why are you humiliating me like this, when your husband came to marry you in the village, you had good morals, who has changed you like this in the city? Look at the clothes you are wearing, they are not dignified”
Rehema wanted to defend herself. These are modern clothes mother. This is what people wear in the city. My husband is accusing me falsely,” she added.
Her mum told her: “We have news of your marriage, your husband called us more than 7 times at different times telling us that you have changed a lot, you are always loitering with your friends in bars in the city. You don’t respect him anymore. Today we were planning to have a meeting to talk about your issue again, now I wonder where you came back to?”
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“No, mother, he is lying, he is full of jealousy” Rehema defended herself while pretending to cry.
Suddenly, her mother received a phone call, it turned out to be Rehema’s husband
“Mother, I don’t know how to tell you, but I really don’t know what demons your daughter has. Today she disgraced me so much that I doubt is I will ever forget. Your daughter was busted in a guesthouse with someone’s husband.
Rehema’s mum was surprised that Rehema reached the point of dating people’s husbands.
“I’m so sorry my son-in-law, don’t worry. I believe she is safe. We will do everything for her to return home tomorrow, we will come there to give him the last oath” Mother Rehema replied,
“Hey mom, I’m very grateful. I love Rehema very much, I wouldn’t want to leave her,” Rehema’s husband replied.
After hanging up, Rehema’s mother turned to her daughter angrily and slapped her like 7 times.
“You are a savage child, you find a man who really loves you and then you bring flirtations and arguments, have you forgotten that when he took you out of the village you were as pale as a cashew nut? Despite your poverty and class 8 education, he married you and now you despise him? Do you think he was foolish to cater for your needs? Who would see your beauty if it wasn’t for his care, my daughter, think before you act, your beauty will make you fall in love and find the man you need, but your character will decide how long that man will stay with you. Beauty attracts every man, but character is what will make you last in marriage. I advise you to go back and apologize to your husband, settle down with him and appreciate his love. If he has been able to tolerate all the abuse, you have done to him, and then realize that even if you break up with him, you will not find a man with true love and a heart of compassion and patience like him,” she said
Tomorrow your father and I will come to the city to make sure you come back to your senses.
Rehema’s mother picked up a stick and flogged her 15 times. “And if you mess up another day don’t step here again. I will break your legs” she chased her away. Rehema ran away in shame crying with a hand in her hand.
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