08/01/2026
My mother in-law called me barren & chased me out of her son’s house , years later she got a shocking revelation.
Childbearing in my family has been a generation problem. My great grandfather was the only child of his parents and he had my grandmother as an only child too. My grandmother had my mother as an only child and my mum had me as her only child after waiting for what seemed like forever .
Unfortunately my father passed away and my mum refused to remarried. So I remained the only child.
As I grew up my mum would always pray that , what seems like a generation curse in our family should end with her , I shall never have only one child and I shall never have to wait . But at the back of my mind , there was always that fear and reminder that I may also partake in that generation problem.
I met Paul, and of course Paul knew about my family issue concerning childbirth because he was not a stranger, we all lived in the same village.
As Christians we prayed really hard against any generation curses. We got married. But we told ourselves to wait for God’s time while we enjoyed our marriage.
Three months into the marriage, my mother in-law started looking at my stomach and asking if I have not missed my period. I had equipped myself because she wasn’t in support of my marriage to Paul.
At first Paul defended me whenever his mum would bring her “I need a grandchild” talks . It was bearable until it became unbearable. My mother in law would not just be looking at my stomach and asking when to expect her grandchildren, she started given me one thing or the other to drink, taking me from one prayer house to another and even sometimes suggested we visited some herbalists.
She subjected me to different kinds of torture. Some mixtures she gave me landed me in the hospital . I would cry myself to sleep every night .
While going through all of these, my mother got ill and didn’t recover from that illness till she joined her ancestors. No uncle, no
aunty, no sister no brother, no father and now no mother . I was alone .
My husband and I drifted apart. We were like strangers living in the same house.
3 years passed and no sign of pregnancy not even a single miscarriage to keep hope alive .
My mother in law got tired of waiting and took matters into her own hands. She came into her son’s compound with a group of women one morning. I was still sleeping when I heard noises from outside. I Opened the door to see what was going on, my mother in-law pushed me out of her way and other women followed her inside my own room and the next thing, they started packing my things outside.
There was no name my mother in law didn’t call me that day . “Barren woman” I am used to that name. She kept shouting that her don would not marry a fellow man like himself. She threw my belongings at me and asked me to take my bad luck away from her son . What even hurt the more was seeing my own husband standing there , watching his mum humiliate me without saying a word or asking her to stop.
I had no where to go, I took some of my clothes and left other things lying where my mother in-law threw them . I went to my best friend’s place where she married, I didn’t even informed her I was coming.
Years later what happened shocked The Whole community…
To be continued
