Isokene (STOP MY WIFE FROM SMILING) - Season 1 - Episode 10

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Isokene (STOP MY WIFE FROM SMILING) - Season 1 - Episode 10

“I didn’t close the door behind me as I rushed into the kitchen to drop all the foodstuffs I had bought.I literally forgot about the door, So Aunty you can imagine how my heart must have felt…it almost jumped out of my body when I felt Ibidolo’s arm around me from behind. I jumped and turned and there he was looking at me. His eyes were bloodshot red, he hugged me so tight and was weeping like a baby and kept saying…
“ This is not what I want for you, I am not that wicked, I know I am selfish, but not wicked, I am sorry”

I kept telling him it was ok and I was fine doing it, to make him happy….
“ How can I be happy when I am putting you in bondage?”

Still weeping, he Unwrapped me by himself
“ Please, Don’t you ever do this again, You can smile to the whole world if you want. Your smile is not just for me, it is for you as well.. I won’t allow my insecurities affect you”
Ibidolo sat on the floor, sobbing. I knelt before him wiping his tears and I said…
“ I did this to show you I was committed to you, though the foundation of our Marriage was wrong but I decided this marriage was going to work. Please don’t feel bad, even if you want me to be a veiled woman, I won’t resist it, but thanks for giving me back my freedom and I promise you today that I will not give you cause to regret giving me the liberty to smile… I love you”

“I love you so….”
Ibidolo covered his face as more tears flowed. I hugged him and I was wondering what Kind of God I was serving who through the wisdom he gave me broke my husband down and made him see things clearly.

Aunty, we had fun, we cooked together and did some loving up…You know……” She said smiling
“ and guess the highlight, the day after he took me out and he was so comfortable with me smiling infact there was a point I was not smiling , he jabbed me playfully by the side and said

“ Why are you not smiling?” And out of Joy I gave one of those Epic smiles of mine of which Ibidolo just shouted “Don’t stop that smile”. He brought out his Mini camera and took a picture of me. Aunty, can you believe after we got home, Ibidolo did a panting of that picture overnight….You know he paints right?
“ Huh…Huh, I think you mentioned it to me once”… I said

“ Aunty, I have been over the moon for the past four days…. I obeyed the rule of being crucified by the one you love, I killed my personal interest in obedience and God Himself resurrected me. Surprisingly, afterwards came my victory, Just like Jesus!”

I found myself clapping for Isoken and telling her a big congratulations.
“ So no more divorce or separation for you?” I asked
“ Aunty, do I need it anymore? God has healed my marriage, a little playing the fool and my joy is full”

“ Well, not everyone can play the fool!”
“ You are so right ma! and that is why a lot of people lose their marriages and other good things, so where is Uncle?”
“ With his mistress” I blurted out before knowing I did….

And there was silence in the room for about a minute, I know Isoken was wondering if she heard me well and I was also wondering what came over me…

“ His mistress? What do you mean ma?” Isokene asked in a very soft confused voice, a voice that broke me into uncountable pieces.
I must have wept for over 10 minutes as I recounted everything to her. She was as shocked as the word shocked.

“ Jesus!” was all she kept saying…
After about 30 minutes, she asked me the million Naira question…

“ So what you planning to do, Aunty?”
“ I …I am planning to relocate to the US, start a new life with my children and watch what God will do. If Henry returns back to his senses, all well and good but if not , still good. The end of a marriage is not the end of the world”
“ Just like that….You plan on giving up just like that on your 15 year marriage, Aunty all those messages you used to preach, did it ever register with you or you were just giving people like us Spiritual food and starving yourself” Isoken asked

“ Isoken, this is too much, Henry loves the woman and he has threatened me that if anything happens to the other woman, he will hurt me…..To avoid problems , Let me just be on my own”

“ No you can’t be on you own, God didn’t create couples to live separate lives, but as husband and wife….So we just need the wisdom of God, Yes we are going to pray, but more of wisdom, submission….”

“ Sub What?” I thought to myself …“How can I submit to a man who was hurting me..Isokene didn’t know what she was talking about. At that point, I just tuned off, I didn’t hear a bit of what she was saying anymore, her mouth was just moving….

After about 45 minutes , she told me she was leaving. After she left I called my sister just to say hi and I mentioned that it was possible we were coming for a short break at her place in Texas.
Days passed, Henry didn’t come back home and my pride didn’t let me call him either. Isoken, (now Officially Isokene since her husband spoke to me over the phone telling me he was over his insecurities and now everyone was permitted to see his wife’s smile and even call her Isokene which was His personal way of calling Isoken) was always calling me on a daily basis asking how I was doing….

After 8 days of Henry’s absence from home, I officially became enraged. I picked my phone to call him to give him the blasting of his Life….
“ Hello, Henry so the witch has officially caged your brain? You left me broken and not even a phone call to check if I was ok. what if I had committed suicide?” I said boiling in anger…
“ I know you can’t do that…Betty I am sorry, Margaret is the one holding me down here, she has refused to let me go, she said now that you know everything, you might stop me from seeing her”

“ Jesus! Was this my husband speaking or a 5 year old boy….?” I thought as I wanted to scream out but rather I just said
“ Give her the phone” and just like a baby Henry handed over the phone to the She-devil….
“ Hello Ma”…the husband snatcher/She-devil said with the most beautifully alluringly textured voice I have heard in my life….If the circumstances were right, I could have fallen in love with her voice….