22/09/2024
HE NEEDS OUR ADVICE
My mother-in-law is pregnant and I want to cut her off.
I married my wife when she was 19 and I was 31. I married for love. She was a perfect partner for me. She had 4 siblings when we married, one of which was in primary school. We have been married for six years and within those years, her mother gave birth to another child. Infact, after she left our house for Omugwo, she took in for their 6th born.
Things have not been as easy as before, the money I give my wife for her family upkeep is twice the amount I give to my own family. They are struggling. The matter has caused quarrels between my wife and me. Sometimes, she will ask me for money for school fees and share it in two to send to her mother and father. This thing caused a big quarrel between us because I'm struggling for our own two children.
Then heard that my mother-in-law was sick. After plenty of lies and hiding, I heard she is 5 weeks pregnant. Again. At the age of 46. I don't understand why or how. All I know is that I can't let her keep giving birth to children for me to take care of. I have given my wife an ultimatum that I am done with taking care of her family. I have to prioritize my own. She said her father does not support her mother financially and has been begging me because her mother does not know where to get a safe abortion. So because of that, I should go and steal to take care of both families? I told her to ask her mother to try harder to find a solution to that pregnancy now that it is early, now she is angry with me.
This matter is threatening to end my family and my happiness. What would you advise me to do?
