Years ago my husband abandoned me and our children, only to return now asking for forgiveness. I married my husband as a very young, naive church girl. My husband didn’t have much but we managed . We welcomed our first child 10 months after our wedding . Then came another child even when the first was just a year and three months old . I practically carried them as twins. I had no help , my husband was barely at home . He goes out everyday either job hunting or just doing menial jobs so we could survive. The money was never enough, but still my husband kept pressuring me to get pregnant for Another baby . I sat him down and explained why we should pause giving birth and focus on the ones we already have . My husband didn’t even try to understand with me , rather he went on and on telling me how the whole essence of marriage is for procreation . He even went further to report me to our pastor, the pastor didn’t help either. The pastor , instead of being logical, he went on schooling me about submission and how my husband is the head and his words are final, so I should submit to my husband and do whatever he pleases. All this while, we lived in a two-bedroom apartment, owned by one elder in church, elder Emmanuel. Elder Emmanuel sometimes would not take rent from us as a way of supporting my family. But then life happened, he fell ill and died from that illness. The family came and started fighting for his properties and sold them one after the other . And the apartment we were staying was also among the properties they sold . The new owner increased the rent so high , so for that we had to evacuate the apartment. We went and rented a single room and was managing. The day we packed in , my husband stepped out for something urgently, when he got back , the children were already asleep and I put them on the bed while I arranged the mat for my husband and I to sleep on the floor. My husband came back and asked that I let the kids sleep on the mat . I thought he was joking, because the mat will be too strong for their little body but my husband insisted. I tried to persuade him so he could maybe join the children to sleep on the bed but he said no , they must sleep on the floor and him and I on the bed . I told him there was no way I could do that to my kids , I rather feel the pains that let my kids feel it , as it is they are already suffering. We sold some of our belongings so we could fit into the one room apartment and also raise money for a little business. The mattress was among the things we sold . That night my husband and I went back and forth arguing and i begging him to manage. My husband left the house angrily and that was the last time my husband came home to me and our children. Few weeks later I found out my husband has a new……….. To be continued……. Please tell me did I do wrong to have laid our kids on the mattress or my husband overreacted? #storytelling

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