Taming The Mad Dog

Her marriage had always been a wild affair 
Her husband was a very temperamental man 
Everything she did made him angry 
He would scream at her, embarrass her 
anywhere 
He was always frowning and complaining 
Nothing she did was good enough 
He was a mistake she made too early in life
He never raised his hands against her but 
the verbal, mental and emotional abuse 
was like fire under her skin 
On numerous occasions, they would go out 
together 
Maybe to church or a party as a couple 
She would say something, anything 
If he didn't like it he would give her that
you're dumb look 
Sometimes he would outrightly tell her to 
shut up in front of everybody 
There were times he actually drove off and 
left her behind to find her way home 
She wondered why he got married 
She wondered why she married him 
He had always been like that 
Always impatient!
They met at her elder sister's Christmas 
party 
The Christmas party was a family tradition 
started by their parents in the 80s 
After both their parents died, her elder 
sister took it up 
They had the party of December 23 
Every member of the family took the party 
as reunion time
She was serving the guests 
He followed her and asked for her phone 
number 
She gave it to him 
He called later that night to compliment her 
That was how the journey began 
She was waiting and praying to be found
 He was a banker (IT) and he was ready to 
settle down 
He was her answer
They had their moments 
One of such moments led to their relocation 
outside the country 
Her best friend, the only one she told about 
her domestic challenges, told her about an 
immigration process to the UK 
She got the form and prayerfully told him 
about it 
He fell in love with the idea 
They relocated a year later
They were both granted visa and everything 
went smoothly 
Her best friend was an immigration lawyer 
She helped them a lot 
When they got to the UK, he got a job with a 
Data Management facility 
She got a job with an NGO Perhaps because 
they were far away from home and had only 
each other in a new environment, 
He changed 
They spent more time together and bonded 
more 
She started thinking about getting pregnant 
(She had been steadfast with her pills before 
then, because she didn't want to have children 
in an abusive relationship) but they needed to
settle down properly and have some money 
in the bank 
She discussed it with him and they agreed 
to wait only for two years more 
Their marriage would be four years by then 
and she would just be clocking 30 while 
her husband would be 33 
By their projections, they would have enough
to raise a family by that time 
One morning, six months after they relocated 
she got a phone call, it was from a lady 
The lady asked to speak with her husband, 
she told the lady to call his mobile 
The lady started laughing and giggling 
suspiciously it was all too weird, too spooky
She checked everywhere 
She went back to the phone and listened to 
the voice mail messages one by one 
She couldn't find anything 
But why was he acting so "I got you where 
i want you" 
It left a sour taste in her mouth as if she had 
been set up somehow or was she overreacting?
He never came back that day 
The next day, she went to work hoping to meet 
him at home when she returned 
She met an empty house 
She started feeling restless again 
She called his phone 
The machine told her number was no longer 
in use 
She started calling the few people they know
in church and his office 
Nobody knew where he was 
She went to his office the following morning, 
she waited across the street and watched 
as staff members went in 
At 8:05 she saw him walking down the street 
He was alive and well 
It's been three days! 
She called his number again
Later that evening he came home to pack 
his things 
He said he was moving out 
He was no longer interested in the marriage 
He had discovered her plot to deplete his 
savings by making him pay for their 
relocation to the UK just so that she can 
file for divorce and leave him hanging
He said a lot of things 
Nothing made sense to her anymore 
He had turned the table and was accusing 
her of calling the cops on him so that she 
can claim grounds for divorce 
He told her he had seen a lawyer 
He called her a snake 
He said all sorts 
She tried to reason with him but he was 
not interested in listening 
He made her feel like she stabbed him in 
the back 
Like everything happening was somehow 
her fault 
She hoped he would cool down and come 
back home 
He didn't! 
He left that day and stayed permanently out 
of her life 
He called their family members at home and 
told them tales of her calling the cops and 
planning to kill him and all sorts 
The divorce became final in July 2018 
He married her best friend, the one who 
advised her to move to the UK with him, 
in August 2018 
That was when everything suddenly made 
sense to her

PS: We are in a politically correct world
So i cannot really say what i have in mind
But I will say this
If you are friends with someone who is very
smart and selfish
And you know you are not too smart
Don't tell such your life's problems
Predators only see in green and blue
And if you open the sheep pen for a wolf
you cannot cry foul
Many people will blame the best friend
I did too
But I also admire her
I always admire smart minds even if such
acted in a devious manner by emotional
standard

GSW's Notes: I met the "Best friend" in
Lagos, Nigeria in December 2019
She was an admirer of my work
She told me the story
She said she helped the guy when he
got "thrown" out of his house by his
wife
She said the guy wasn't as bad as he
was painted
She said she helped him start all over
after the separation
Fellings grew and they got married
a year later
Some people consider me smart
So I had to add one and one together
to write this story the way I believe
it went
The "Wife" is still in the UK, she
is single and trusting God for a husband
I am believing God for the best for her

Finally, 1 Corinthians 3: 18Let no one 
deceive himself. If any of you thinks he 
is wise in this age, he should become a fool, 
so that he may become wise. 
19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness 
in God’s sight. 
As it is written: “He catches the wise in their 
craftiness.”