Some people believe it is impossible not to keep secrets, I for one i am not of that school of thought i believe there should be no secret between two married people and if i was told my wife could have kept such a thing secret from me i would never have believed, we hear, of women who have children for their only to be found out years later that, the children are not for the man, such wasn't the kind of secret my wife kept from me, finding out was very very painful, i was amazed, aghast, perturbed, many are the heavy adjectives that describes how i felt when i came in on the secret, follow me as i tell you my story.
I consider myself a very open person, i live my life like a children's book, open enough to read, simple and clear enough to understand, but as things are right n ow the same cannot be said of my wife of the past 15 years, i work pretty hard to make life very comfortable for wife and three kids and God has been faithful to me so much so my family has not lacked anything good, I've had a most cordial relationship with my wife, aside the regular husband and wife disputes, there has never been a major disruptive dispute my wife and i not until recently and as things stand it will take only miracle not to divorce her.
3 years after i married my wife we moved into a four bedroom apartment in Lagos and since moving in for the past twelve years the rent as since moved from a moderate cost to something pretty outrageous like most houses in Lagos, imagine how much it would be for a four a bedroom apartment, for all the years I've lived in the house I've never met the landlord only dealt with the caretaker a very rude and annoying person, who for anytime there's a little as a few weeks delay in the payment of the rent, he comes around creating a scene in the apartment premises, causing embarrassment for us in the house, leaving the house has crossed my mind several times but my wife just encourages me there's nothing wrong with the house, after all its just the caretaker and he doesn't live in the house, so i just forget about it and we continue our happy lives.
In recent times paying the house rent has increasingly become difficult and moving out of the house hasn't even been an option because of how expensive it would be to get a new place and 12 years since staying in a rented apartment i have not been able to complete my own house, owing to the fact that i alone take care of things in the house, with little or no support from my wife who has never shown interest in working since i married here, i have prodded and encouraged her to take up a small teaching job at least but wife has never been interested in working, and so she has been a full time house wife and she she as been wonderful at it
Trouble started some weeks back when i had reason to rush back home from work after a sudden need to tender some documents became problematic and my failure to make the documents available was not going to favor me at work, i had searched through the house several days before but could not locate the documents and you know, often times when one is looking for something in the house unnecessary places will be searched and so during the course of searching unnecessary places i found myself in my wife's cosmetic locker and there i found some documents that seemed to resemble what i was looking for but on close examination the documents turned out to be certificate of ownership C of O of the very house we had been living in for the past twelve years and they were in my wife's name, I sat down flat on the floor of the room perplexed not believing what i was seeing, for the past twelve years i have been working hard to pay the rent of our four bedroom apartment my wife had been the owner of the house and yet she kept that as a secret for all these year.
My wife i married 15 years ago has since gone from been the woman i know and have trusted to a complete stranger because i still cannot come to terms with how she could have kept such a huge secret from, i have suddenly started fearing for my life and have started to doubt if the three children we have really belongs to me.
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