18/10/2025
I'm shcck3d to my marrow😭😭🙆🙆
My mother in-law is the only one in the family that never visited us after our wedding despite living in the same city with us.
When I had my first child, she came
Just like the other visitors, gave me something for the baby and left.
My mother was surprised and asked me if we have issues but I told her we don't.
She didn't even visit at all when I had my daughter. I told my husband about it.
You wouldn't mind your business and not look for who is not looking for you.
This was what he told me so I decided to mind my business and not look for who is not looking for me.
Months later, they had some insecurity problem where she lives and my husband's elder sister called me and pleaded that I should accommodate their mother till she comes back because she traveled to Dubai.
Mama came and stayed with us. I noticed how she was never comfortable.
She barely ate her food.
Wouldn't play with the children even when my son would never allow her to rest.
She would prefer to sit in her room instead of joining us in the sitting room.
If I don't go to the room and tell her to come to the sitting room. She wouldn't.
She jerks whenever her name is called. There was always fear on her face.
I will cook and tell her to eat lunch whenever she is hungry but I would come back from work and the food is untouched.
Mama, you didn't eat your food. What happened?
I was hungry but I didn't want to go to your pot. I don't want problems. This is not my house.
The whole thing was tiring so after cooking I would dish her food in a food flask before going to work.
One evening I came back from work and prepared pepper soup. I gave her some to eat while I prepared dinner.
My husband came home and I went to get some for him. I was coming back to call him when I heard him talking to his mother.
This pepper soup you are eating now, I hope you don't have plans of eating anything today again.
I don't run a Charity organization in my house where you can eat as you like oooo. Your daughter should come and carry you out of this house. Things are too expensive.
I was shocked at these words but I was a bit confused if he was talking to mama or to someone else.
That night, I finished cooking and Mama refused to eat. She said she wasn't hungry. This is a woman that told me she was hungry before I started cooking.
I woke up around 1am to check on my children and I saw Mama sitting on her bed eating biscuits and water. Obviously she was hungry. She saw me and hid the biscuit.
I pretended like I didn't see her and went to our room.
The next day my husband went out and I used that opportunity to have a he@rt to he@rt talk with Mama.
I pressured and pressured her till she opened up to me in tears.
My husband dealt with me in this life. I was a poor orphan and had no one to take care of me before he married me.
I was 17 and from that day my life became miserable. He would always give my sons cane to flog me and correct me their mother.
He always said that men are superior to women no matter the man's age.
As my children grew, they started to treat me the same way their father did. They beat me whenever they want.
My husband is late today but the seed he planted into my children has refused to do.e. They still mistreat me just like their father.
My daughter is the only person that sees me as human and treats me well.
I had goosebumps as she said this.
I consoled her and assured her that things would be well.
She pleaded with me not to talk to my husband about what she told me.
But that day,something di.ed in me.
I decided never to give birth again and focus solely on raising the two I have and growing my business because a man that can treat his own mother like this wouldn't treat me any better.
It's just a matter of time and he would show his true colours.
Could this be true????
