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“Mopelola ,
Since we came back from Pastor Mike’s house, you have kept to your self.
You have made yourself unapproachable.
You have refused to eat on the table while I eat alone.
You would place my food on the table and ate yours on the verandah outside.

Then, this evening,
Maybe by act of omission or commission,
The single piece of meat,
The meat on top of plate of rice you served me,
Was nothing but bone.
The bone of the leg of cow.

I went to kitchen and i wanted to change the bone to meat,
You have removed the pot from the gas cooker
You have put it back in the freezer.
Honey, let’s make this marriage work.”

“Bolu,
If you would allow it to work!
Every counsel in the Bible on how well to treat your wife, you have despised and rubbished.

When the Bible says in Colossians 3:19, That husbands should love their wives
And never to be bitter towards them,
Did you obey that counsel?

When the Bible says, in Ephesians 5:25, that husbands should love their wives
AS Christ loves the Church, did you respect that Holy admonition?

If you knew you would not show me the love I deserve,
Why did you marry me?”

“Honey, I love you,
That was why I waited for you
In Courtship for the two and half years.
I love you, that was why I was always Coming to visit you, trekking kilometers to see your face.
But the lies you told me bombed me.

They shattered my faith into countless pieces.
The lies were enough to dampen the spirit of God’s Angels.
Those lies could cause an earthquake on the landscape of Heaven.
Those lies were enough to make Angels fear sons of men.

Must you tell lies to hide your actual age?.
Mustn’t I be allowed to make my own decision,
If I wanted to marry a woman older than me?
Now, I have married my Sister, without my consent.
I have married a woman older than me by ,rafting as and deceit.

Must you lie to me about your past relationships?
Those lies shook my trust to the very foundations, Mopelola.”

“Dear,
I have told you why I lied.
But I admit I should not have lied.
Yet, don’t look at the What I lied.
But look at the Why I lied.
I feared if you knew I am older than you,
You would change your mind.
I feared if you knew I had been in five previous relationships,
You would run away.
But I was not ready to lose any man again.
Not again, the sixth time.

So I put my heart in my hand and took a plunge in the river of life.
I lied to you.”

“Ah-a-a! Now I see clearly!
I need to confirm again, Mopelola.
Did you lie to me,
Because you love me.
Or you lied to me because you did not want to lose the sixth man you had entered into relationship with?

Did you lie to me
Because you were tired of being jilted,
OR you lied to me,
Because you had found a gem you never wanted to Lose?
Shouldn’t you have told me the truth if you truly loved me?
Shouldn’t you have known that
When I discover your lies at last, My heart would break?

Now that my heart has broken into multiple pieces,
How would I gather it back into a single one now?
How would I know now,
That those lies are your final lies?
How would I know now, that there are no bigger lies hiding in the corners of your heart?

Sweet Heart, Please, help me.
Were those your final lies