Please Consider The Children

Reader's Discretion Advised

I got this in my DM to one of my true-life stories, and I felt it was appropriate to share...

His story was about his toxic divorce and the battle over his children.

His ex-wife filed for divorce and began planning to relocate to Canada with his children

He heard about it, and he sent her this message

Labake,
I heard a whisper, but I know it is a lie because you know me.
You were married to me, and you know deep down I am not the kind of man who plays with fire

I was told you are planning to take my children abroad to spite me.

I laughed deeply when I heard it, and I went to sleep.
Because I know it must be a joke

It can never be me.
I am not even joking
I love my children
If you take away my children
I will take away all your siblings one by one
I will issue a warning to everyone in public that I will do it, and then I will do it
Your mother will not have children to bury her, and neither will your father
I will spare no expense, and I will not be merciful
It is with the hand you used to take my children away that you will bury your siblings and relatives one by one
if you have friends and colleagues, they will die too
Many people here assume prayer goes unanswered because they don't really know how to pray
I know how to pray
I seriously do and you know I do
I also know how to get results in the place of prayer
I will bend the wind to my will, and I will bend the fire to my breath
I will spew forth the rain from my mouth and make the earth tremble beneath my feet
I will pay any price, even go to hell if it comes to it, for the sake of my children
I will shut the womb of every member of your family, so that no new children will come forth, and then I will systematically eradicate all of you so that in the next one year, it will seem as if your family never existed in history.
Of course, God wouldn't be happy about it, but I will do it and gladly face the consequences
If you sow the wind, you must be prepared to reap the whirlwind
You would have made a monster out of me, and I will gladly be your nemesis
For my children, I will die willingly, and for their sake, no life shall be sacred.
So it is better to kill me than take my children
Every breath I draw without my children shall be accounted for with great anguish and agony by the entire family of anybody who dares to take away my children.
I will not talk about this again ever
I have also sent this message to all the members of your family as the only warning they will get
I am in my house in case you want to arrest me or kill me before carrying out your plan
I consider that fair, given the length, I am resolved to go on this issue
If you feel it is an empty boast, go ahead and test my resolve."

I sent the same message to all her family members by WhatsApp, and then I blocked them all

Three weeks later, I woke up, and my children were at my door with their boxes.

She had gotten the visa, but she couldn't go through with it

She handed over their passports to them and went away quietly

I welcomed my children with joy and placed them in a new school

I took them to Canada to visit her later that year

I stayed in Ontario while they spent a whole month at her location.

I returned to Nigeria with them afterwards

I didn't change their school, and I made sure they kept communicating with their mother

Anytime she is in Nigeria, she visits them, and they visit her freely

I wanted my children to grow up healthy and psychologically balanced without any daddy or mummy issues.

I am happy the marriage ended because we were both unfit for each other, and staying married would have damaged the children, but I refused to allow her to use the children as a weapon against me and, by so doing, ruin them psychologically.

They are my generation, my seed, and my future.
No woman would make them go bad because of emotions

As to my threat, I meant every word of it.

Had she taken my children away as she planned, they would have started mass burials in her family within a year, and they would have never given birth to new children in that family until my children were returned to me

If you take the Ark of the Covenant, you must be prepared to sacrifice your dagon and your well-being in return.

PS: I read it, and I totally understand what could have prompted him to act in that manner.
I also know that in some cases, taking the children away cannot be avoided, especially where the man is violent and abusive.
An abusive husband or wife will abuse the children, too
Not all parents are abusive, and therefore every case has to be attended to on its merit.
Taking a man or woman's children away to spite her because the marriage or relationship went sour is evil.

It will not only damage the children, it will damage the children's unborn children too and affect all their future relationships.

When a marriage goes bad, please, take extra care so that the children do not go bad with it.

-GSW-