Desmond Alari

It’s funny how men will have a lady like this and still cheat on her

Three weeks after I gave birth, my husband asked for a DNA test. I was still recovering, barely sleeping, still in pain when he said it like it was normal: “I think we should do a paternity test.” At first, I thought he was joking, He wasn’t. Apparently his coworkers had spent months feeding him stories about men unknowingly raising children that weren’t theirs and one even commented that our son looked nothing like him. So instead of trusting me his wife of 5 years he decided he needed “peace of mind.” “If there’s nothing to hide, it shouldn’t matter,” he said. That was the moment something in me broke, because I wasn’t just recovering from childbirth anymore, I was being treated like a suspect. I didn’t even argue anymore. I just agreed to the test. After that, everything between us went cold. When the results came back, they confirmed what I already knew: 99.9999% probability of paternity. He looked relieved and said, “See? Now we can move on.” But I couldn’t. Because the problem was never the test it was the fact that he believed strangers before he believed me. That same week, I filed for divorce.

Residents of Rumukwachi area in Port Harcout lament as water overtook streets, Residential buildings and business premises due to heavy rain fall