I had to travel overseas in search of greener pastures. I left my son in the care of my niece. She was always good to him when I was around. So I knew she would take good care of him. My boyfriend also assured me that he would pay them visits to check up on them. I didn’t have a problem with that at all. If anything, I was thankful to him.
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He is someone I trusted a lot. I was willing to do anything to make him a better man. Someone I would feel proud calling my partner. I never had any reason to doubt him until I heard some reports about him.
It started when he first visited my niece and my son. He called to complain about my niece to me. “She doesn’t respect one bit,” he ranted, “She has been rude to me since I got here. Can you believe she insulted me?”
My default response was anger. How dare my niece disrespect my man? I called her immediately and asked questions. She didn’t have much to tell me except that she would like to leave my apartment. It didn’t make sense. I asked her if my boyfriend behaved inappropriately toward her. She said no.
“Are you sure he didn’t touch you wrongly or propose to you?”
She insisted he didn’t. “Then why do you want to leave? I don’t understand. He is only going to spend a few days and return to his home.”
Her determination to leave got me suspicious but I didn’t have anything to stand on. So I just convinced myself that my boyfriend is a good man. He won’t do anything to betray my trust.
A few days later, my brothers called to advise me to ask my boyfriend to leave my place. When I asked why, they refused to talk. This made me angry. If you want me to sack someone from my house, I at least deserve to know why. They didn’t talk so I didn’t do what they asked.
It was my niece who ended up leaving. She left my son with my man. So now he had to stay at my end and take care of the boy.
More than a year has passed since that incident. There was bad blood between me and my niece because of the way she left. Also, I didn’t like that she disrespected my man without cause.
Then, someone called me a month ago to inform me that when my niece was at my place, my boyfriend tried everything possible to sleep with her. That was the real reason they always argued. My niece even told my landlord and his wife about it, but they advised her not to tell me. They said it would affect my relationship.
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When I heard this, I felt ashamed of myself. It took me several days before I gathered the courage to ask my niece about it. She confirmed my fears.
She said my boyfriend proposed marriage to her and tried to get intimate with her. The neighbour who broke the news to me told me they heard them struggling at night.
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What finally convinced me it was true was when she revealed something I once discussed with my boyfriend alone. We both agreed to keep it a secret, but he told her when he was trying to get into her pants.
Before all this, my plan was to come to Ghana this December for us to get married. Now I am rethinking everything. How can I marry a man who tried to sleep with my niece? That thought alone has killed the love I once had for him. What if he even succeeded in having his way with her but she cannot tell me? Am I wrong to act based on what she has told me alone? He may lie if I ask him so I don’t want to.
—Chapelle
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