LEAVE AND LIVE

Have you wondered why women in situations that are deadly find it difficult to leave and live?

A young lady by name Ann growing up had her expectations from life. Ann had always prayed for a good husband just as every young lady always does in their prayers, but an unfortunate circumstance soon averted this prayer of hers. Ann had both female and male friends, few of her male friends liked her and wanted a relationship with her. But there was this friend, Dan, who kept on with his show of love and interest, huh! How do I wish? 

On a fateful day, Ann went out to see Dan who had always liked and showed interest in her, she felt it was just pure interest. On getting to his place, Dan was so happy to see Ann. He offered her a drink while they chatted, soon the drink took his full course of work on Ann. Ann slept off, then Dan smiled and got to work removing his clothes and that of Ann. He raped her. Ann woke up with her clothes on and everything intact without a fair idea of what had happened.

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Ann went home trying to make out why and how she slept and trying so hard to remember, but the harder she tried to remember, the harder she couldn’t. So she just happened to move on. Two months later she found out she was pregnant and wondered how the heck she had got pregnant. Ann was devastated and couldn’t help the situation and she began to piece the puzzle together then she concluded that Dan had raped her on that fateful day.

Ann was so pained that she went all out for him. This life can be something else sometimes. Ann told Dan that she was not ready to live with the shame at all and that he must marry her. It became some sort of issue but at the tail end, Dan married Ann (maybe better put the rapist married his victim). This was another journey of life for Ann. One would question why marry the man that raped you, I too questioned. I also questioned why would the father give his daughter out in marriage to a rapist?

Ann’s marriage life began, is it a sweet or enjoyable, or loved one? Sit tight and find out. Ann and Dan moved to the city to start their life and this experience was damning. Ann is a hardworking hustling lady in business and booming while Dan was also hustling but nonchalant. Ann became a punching bag. Dan would beat his wife every passing day even at midnight. He became so wicked to her and sometimes to the children. Can you imagine Dan refilling gas that will be used to cook food for his family and instructing the children not to cook any food with the gas refilled and give their own mother, Ann? The children thought it was not a serious thing but the day the first child did it, oh heavens! She received the beating of her life from her dad, Dan.

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Dan comfortably left his responsibilities for his wife to shoulder, which she did for her children and with the hope of things getting better. Ann feeds the family and pays the house rent yet Dan beats her mercilessly even after 3 children with no form of pity. Neighbours always come to her aid of Ann whenever her cry goes out. Ann moves about with swollen eyes and bruised bodies almost all the time. Her parents had advised and begged her to leave the marriage alive with her children. Her brother has done the same. Her close friend also advised the same. 

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So what’s really keeping her still? I wonder. Dan no longer values you. The neighbours are tired of this noise, wailing, and screaming that comes from the flat. Dan beat Ann one day telling her that he will kill her someday and that she will die just the way some woman died at the hands of her husband. Didn’t this just make goosebumps touch your body? It did. What coldblooded being? Ann’s leaving depends on her conviction because she’s still in the marriage.

Life is lived once and not twice. It’s meant to be lived to the fullest in happiness. Why would you want to live a life of perpetual pain? If your life is threatened or your happiness is, it’s better to leave and live.

I hope she leaves and lives.