14/07/2025
There’s this man who was married with three kids. One day, his wife told him that she had to travel to Abuja urgently because her sister was very sick. She said it was an emergency, so she packed a bag and left.
But after she left, she never came back.
Her phone was off, and there was no way to reach her. The man was worried, thinking something bad had happened to her. He tried everything—he called her family, but they claimed they hadn’t seen her. He even called the sister she said she was going to visit, and guess what? The sister said she never came.
At that point, he was planning to go to the police to report her as missing. That’s how serious it was. He was really scared.
Then, one of her family members finally told him the truth. She didn’t go to Abuja. She traveled abroad. She left the man and her three children just like that.
And for 14 years, she didn’t call. She didn’t send a message. Nothing.
This man had to raise the three children all by himself. The youngest child was just 8 months old when she left. Imagine a man alone, with a small baby that still needed milk, diapers, and full-time care. He struggled. It wasn’t easy for him at all. He wasn’t even financially stable, but he did everything he could.
He worked, cooked, cleaned, took care of the children, and still tried to keep it all together. He was both the father and the mother for 14 years.
Now, after all these years, the woman has suddenly returned. She says she wants to be in the children’s lives again. She says she wants to take them abroad so they can have a “better life.”
But the man refused. He said the children are not going anywhere.
Now people are calling him selfish. They say he’s blocking his kids’ chances of a better future. But when he was struggling alone with those kids, when the baby was crying at night and he was using the last money he had to buy baby formula, where was she?
She wasn’t there for their birthdays, school events, or even during hard times when the kids needed their mother.
Now that things are better, and the children are grown, she wants to take them?
The man said no—and honestly, I don’t blame him.
What do you think?