FOR BETTER TOGETHER(FICTION)

Continued from the previous......

After a long search, Emeka couldn't bring himself to just accept that the good life he once had was gradually going down the drain. His wife who was once a very sweet lady didn't make things rosy,she nagged and wanted to shout down their roof at every given opportunity and had threatened to leave if he stops doing the needful. It was as if everything in his life had crashed,every man struggled to keep their own family and he couldn't disturb them with his own problems,his which was even a small family could not be kept together simply because his wife wanted to have it all and couldn't be patient with him or even remember the good days when everything was all sunshine and good. 
The days when he made her feel like a Hollywood star with all the expensive jewelry and clothes,she wanted to have more and was never content with the once she had, living with Nnenna for the past months was like riding on a rough and sloppy path.
She was never happy about anything especially once he was in the house,these was a woman who always wanted him around when he was sent on official assignments to other towns. Was that all pretense, Emeka always thought which confusion on how to keep up and meet her unending demands .

Emeka pleaded with Nnenna to exercise a little patient with him as his new business was still growing and they had just paid rent for their new place and several other responsibilities he had to tend to but Nnenna having to lead an extravagant life style,coupled with the fact that she didn't want to look for a job or do any business. She was the kind of person who wanted a comfortable life without stress or risk,she was also a shopaholic and wasn't bothered about the other person unless she is made comfortable.

 After six months of struggling to no avail,it was as if God had forgotten them. Emeka turned into another human beign all together,he was soon diagnosed with a kidney problem coupled with his blood pressure issues after having to endure these past months with a cheating and nagging wife who has made living difficult for him.

It got so bad that his once sweet Nnenna who pampered him was only married to him because the money was there and he spoilt her silly but when the tables turned,she showed her true colour. Men came visiting her in her matrimonial home and they satisfied her unquencheable urge of wanting to have more,more money,clothes and beauty products. Emeka didn't know what to do with her and her mother didn't help matters,concluding and saying her daughter can not die in poverty and that he should be a real man and fend for himself and his wife,in her words ''once a queen,always a queen'' but Emeka endured thinking his wife would later come back to her senses and therefore none of his family members knew what was really going on in his home.

When Emeka was down with the kidney problem,Nnnenna felt she had heard enough and she left, she was of the opinion that it should be ''for better together and for worse divided''. A marriage where no child was produced and she had to suffer with hin,for what! Despite all Emeka's pleas she left without mercy or even looking back leaving him to die in loneliness and anguish.

 After several months Emeka was fully recovered after his friends had teamed up and sent him abroad for advanced medical care and surgery,he bounced back to life after he was paid of a contract he had done some months before his fall out with the company he worked for. He was even doing better than he was before and vowed never again to fall for physical beauty for ''charm might be deceptive'' but a good woman will always be one regardless of her physical beauty. It was Nnenna's beauty that attracted him first to her but because he wasn't thinking he overlooked all the traits of not been content which she showed off but he assumed her beauty shone also through, to her heart.

His marriage was not one he wanted to even remember or wish his enemy,it was indeed ''for better together'.



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