Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo@GbengaWemimo
Husband has two laptops
One was given to him as a Work from home tool by the foreign bank he is working with
The other was his personal laptop with him he handles his personal business.
Wife’s father died in Nigeria
Husband was not given leave at work to travel abroad
Wife was as given compassionate leave
Wife pleads with husband to please show his face at the funeral
Husband decided to take the risk
He mirrored the office laptop to his personal laptop
Left it connected in such a way that he can work on it remotely using his personal computer and travelled with the family to Nigeria for work
Wife was aware of the risk the husband took
The plan was to travel to Nigeria on Friday and return to London on Sunday
They got to Nigeria
The husband set up his personal laptop at the hotel so that if any work call or email comes in he would attend to it immediately
It worked
He was able to work remotely and he was in the UK on Saturday morning
After this he went to the burial rites, greeted members of the family and paid his respects to all and sundry
When he got back to their room he discovered his laptop was gone
It was not stolen
He could see from all the disconnections and wires lying around that his wife took it
He rushed to the car and drove furiously to the wife’s parent’s house to ask her for his laptop
When he got there, he saw that his wife had handed it over to her older brother who had connected it to some amplifiers to play some of their father’s Fåvourite music to entertain her family
He didn’t think it would be proper to disrupt such a solemn family moment
So he went back to the hotel and waited anxiously for them to be done and for his laptop to be returned.
At almost midnight, the laptop was returned
By then the husband has gotten two messages from his team lead asking him where he was because he missed some tasks and his laptop indicated that he was in Nigeria
He reconnected his laptop and tried very hard to do some damage control.
He was livid and he didn’t fail to say so to his wife
According to the wife he said “You betrayed my trust, you took my work computer without regards for my sacrifices and well being to play music in loving memory of your father. You could have hired a DJ or bought a laptop somewhere in Lagos.
You knew the risk I took to be at this event with you and you decide to expose me this way.
You better pray I don’t lose my job over this. If I as much as get a query, this marriage is over”
Wife said she didn’t think that far.
Her brother asked her if she brought her laptop because he had carefully made a selection of their father’s Fåvourite songs on a flash drive and would like to play it at the house after the funeral while his friends and family member were still around to commiserate with their mother.
She said she went to the room to see if she could borrow her husband’s laptop and met his absence. So she just took it.
Innocent mistake.
They got back to the UK and husband’s job was terminated.
Husband is asking for a divorce
Wife is saying jobs are replaceable, a marriage is not.
How can an innocent mistake be the cause of their divorce?
Husband says the wife has always been like that
Lacking an understanding of boundaries and willing to throw anybody under the bus to get her desired result in anything she wanted to do.
He had told her he couldn’t travel because his office didn’t permit him
She prevailed on him to take the risk and then destroyed his carefully built wall of protection by removing the laptop from its connection
Wife said she didn’t intend to do any harm.
Just to play some music with the laptop
Husband said wife is deflecting and moved out of their apartment
Wife is asking what the big deal is…