A man from Migori, George Chacha, has opened up about why he left his marriage after 27 years.
The father of three said that whenever he and his wife would argue, she would give him The silent treatment.
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“Sometimes, they would last for months. Things became unbearable when we stayed a whole year without speaking, yet we lived in the same house,”
he said, adding that he packed and left his house to start afresh.
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During the marriage, however, George said that he noticed that whenever any of his people would collide with his wife, she would write them off and would never speak to them again.
“She would often also give me the silent treatment whenever we would argue.
I would sometimes plead with her to allow a dialogue for us to fix things.
Sometimes we would go for months without speaking because of this,” he narrated.
However, the situation got worse when they were in their 27th year, and things completely veered off the road.
This was made worse by the fact that one of his three sons had been struggling with mental illness.
He, unfortunately, succumbed to the illness leaving the family with a deep sadness to grapple with amid the already existing challenges.
He said that he hopes that through his story people can learn to keep communication lines open at all times in marriages.
He also hopes that one day his ex-wife will agree to have a dialogue with him so that they could at least get closure.
“I do not blame her for everything, I also played a role and I have learned my lessons.
I just wish we can at least talk this out and move on and be in each other’s good books but she has blocked me everywhere,” he said.
He had retired by this time and had built a modest house for his family in Migori. Moving out of their bedroom
He said that he and his wife struggled with communication during this time and nothing he tried worked so he gave up.
His wife had moved out of their bedroom for a whole year.
"One day I couldn’t take this anymore and I called her to sit and talk. I asked her to list all the wrongs I had done and that I would do the same and we would fix it together and she refused. She told me that she would rather be a widow than be married to me. It hurt. It hurt so bad and on this day I packed my stuff and left my marriage after 27 years," he said.
George went on and married another woman with whom he is trying to build his life back up again.