My Cross, My Pain. HoL 153

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Humans of Lagos

"My wife and I had a misunderstanding that grew to the point of our separation. She left with my lovely 3 year old daughter and then divorced me.

All my efforts at being responsible for my daughter's upkeep was hindered by my estranged wife.

She remarried, I didn't.

My daughter was raised by her step-dad. I was brutally denied the opportunity to show my fatherly love. My daughter grew up not knowing me.

My daughter was embittered with me due to the one-sided stories her mother fed to her. She hated me without hearing me out. She distanced herself from me even when I made countless effort to reach out.

I love her, but she really hates me.

Even at her university convocation, as a valedictorian with the overall best result, she only spoke gloriously about her adopted father. I was once again relegated to nothing.

Why should she hate me based on what she was told about me without caring to hear my side of the story? We would never know what transpired in the lives of God and Satan, since the latter side of the story is never told.

I was pained, but that's part of life. I don't own my daughter really, she's a free citizen of the universe.

My cross, my pain.

© FERT, 2018

Comments

  1. Esther13 April 2019 at 20:47

    Yeah....I don't buy it. If you really wanted to be there for your child, you will. There are countless ways to ensure that in today's world. The whole victim whining is probably one of the reasons mom left in the first place.

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