My husband has been in Canada for the past eight years. It has always been his dream to travel outside the country, so although the opportunity came when I was just 3 months pregnant with our first child and barely a year into our marriage, he didn’t even think twice. He promised to come back for me and our now eight year old son. Every year after he left, I held on to the hope that he was working to get us to join him there. We were communicating every single day and although I missed him, the daily calls reduced the feeling of loneliness. Hmm, but as the years went by, hope started leaving me. My husband wasn’t calling everyday anymore. He wasn’t answering my calls and he had an excuse for everytime I would ask him why he wasn’t answering me.
Then we started having arguments and when he calls he will only ask to speak to our son and wouldn’t even speak to me. I had a lot of good men come my way wanting to date me and be with me. But I was so stupid. I was waiting for my husband. I thought he would uphold and stay committed to our marriage like I had been committed. Instead he turned his back on us. About two years ago, we stopped hearing from him. Even his family claimed they weren’t hearing from him. He deleted all his facebook and Instagram pictures and he wasn’t making posts on social media anymore. Around this time, my elder brother started encouraging me, even forcing me to put my ring down and start dating again. He was fully convinced that my husband has moved on and the truth is that I should have listened to him from the beginning.
I don’t even know why I was holding on to a marriage that held no promise, but I am naturally a stubborn person and I don’t give up easily. Then I started to wonder if my husband was still alive because people do not vanish like that. Around April, an acquaintance of mine reached out to me. He was actually an ex of one of my classmates from school and my husband was also a friend to him. When he called, I didn’t even know he has also travelled abroad years ago. As fate will have it, where he was staying in Canada was not very far from where my husband was staying. Even on the phone he was a little worried to tell me what he wanted to tell me. He asked me if I had divorced my husband and I told him I haven’t and I haven’t heard from him in two years. That was when he told me my husband was married. He had married a Caribbean woman he met there. According to the guy, my husband is using a different name in abroad and his new wife is very rich. He sent me a flyer of their baby christening service. My husband was not just married, but he and his wife had given birth to a baby girl.
My husband has created new Facebook and Instagram accounts with the new name the guy told me about. He wasn’t lying at all. Everything was there on Instagram. They married around February 2021. I have cried so much that I have lost weight. My son is with my mother for now because I am not in the right state of mind to take care of him. What my husband has done to me is pure evil. A kind of evil I cannot describe. It hurts so much that I don’t want to wake up from my bed in the morning. His family may have known his intentions all this while. His sister didn’t deny that she didn’t know her brother was marrying outside. My elder brother confronted her with it. It looks like they knew. I don’t even know the next step to take now.
