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You're obviously unaware of WHO owns the planet and its inhabitants. ![]() FSBoperator: |
OP, I opened this account to respond to your post. It will be unfair if it is not a true life story, but a fiction posted merely for traffic. I said that because my time is so precious to me. Anyway, I will assume that all you communicated so far is the truth. Below is my response: Firstly, your sister's husband accused you of being the "weapon fashioned against his marriage." Unknown to you, the man is very correct. The only difference is that you are the secondary weapon while the man himself is the primary weapon. By the way, the man is not a pastor if he truly behaved that way. Stop seeing him as one, even though he is coordinating a church. But he is the husband of your sister. You are not the husband of your sister. Stop acting like one. Even if she is your younger sister, you shouldn't control her in her marital issues. The man in question is not her boyfriend. He is her husband, and you must respect that fact. You can only counsel/advise your sister. And you must do that very carefully and not arrogantly (showcase your current financial status) because lives are involved. You wouldn't tolerate your wife's brother still being so involved in her life (controlling her) now that you have become her husband. Would you? So, you need to stay clear of your sister's marriage and trust that she is an adult enough to manage her home affairs. Since the husband doesn't lay his hands on her, the man can be guided to drop the childish and devilish behaviours, especially the tarnishing of your sister's image. Divorce is not "Sandwich," especially for the children involved. You really want three children to start life on the wrong-footing? You can't even accommodate and provide for the children in your apartment, despite how the "terrible" man provided for you within those 4 months. You also said that you want your sister to get her own apartment. Do you really want your sister to join the Divorced Women's Club and get her life terribly messed up, beyond what her husband did to her? OP, you are only your sister's brother. Her husband is the main authority figure over her as long as she was given out in marriage to the man. It is no longer your father, pastor, or imam. And it was never you. Most importantly, your sister is his wife, and not his colleague (equal), even if she is older. We are Nigerians and not Oyinbo. You truly need to stop being the secondary weapon fashioned against the marriage in the name of "caring" for your sister. Maybe the debacle between the man and his wife actually started when he allowed you to live with them for a whole 4 months. If you had never lived there, maybe the situation wouldn't have degenerated to this level. Your sister, whom you are close to, would have continued the resentment from where you stopped. Even after you angrily left his house, you must have also continued discussing the resentment with her, without understanding the effects of what you were doing. What if the man had allowed you to live in his house for the 2 years you had earlier planned? This is why some married men don't allow relatives to stay beyond 3 days in their house. Come to think of it, you desired your married sister to learn computer graphics, but it didn't dawn on you to get her husband's approval? Who does that? Yet, you are a man, a married man at that. Can you tolerate such from your wife's brother? You definitely despise your sister's husband, though the man partly deserves it. Maybe you also encouraged your sister to despise him regularly. Anyway, two wrongs don't make a right. Despite having good intentions for your sister, what you were supposed to do was to tell her to humbly discuss the training program with her husband, and keep reminding him at wonderful moments till he agrees. Even at that, you must not be forward by rushing to pay. You must allow the husband to pay. You can also send some money (moderate gift) to your sister around that period without mentioning exactly what it is meant for. Always maintain such wisdom when getting involved in your sister's or any other person's family, no matter how wealthy you are. That is how you would promote peace while helping out. Your assistance must not distort or destroy the peace in your sister's home. Now that the man is pleading with your family for his wife's return, please get out of the way, even if you can't reflect or be appreciative of the 4 months he housed and fed you, before you were able to start your city hustle to comfortably live in a 3-bedroom apartment today. Right now, what you need to do is to get the Edo State Ministry of Social Development and Gender Issues involved before your family releases her to him. The ministry would sternly caution him about his excesses. Your family must also insist that the ministry mandate him to publicly retract the food poisoning and sex escapades claims he made against your sister if they are false. Please get out of your sister's marriage and focus on your own marriage. |
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