travelling–please bear with the hiatus in posts

I am currently travelling. There are several things I have been intending to post, but my travel/writing schedule is interrupting my blog focus. Bear with me. I’ll be back soon with lots of posts…

“The ‘S’ Word”–First wife divorces husband for denying her sex

"The 'S'-Word," from Leadership newspaper, 5 April 2009

 

Ok, so my title is a bit tabloidish…. but I was so struck by this powerful personal account published by an anonymous woman in Khadija Abdu Iya’s column in this Sunday’s Leadership, that I wanted to post it here on this blog. The Leadership website is currently down, so I decided to post a photograph of the article. If the print is too small, try clicking on the photo and you should be able to zoom into an image.

An educated “career” woman with four children describes her early romance and marriage, and how she felt betrayed when, after her husband married two other wives, he began to deny her sex saying he felt she was like “his sister.” She is now considering divorcing him. The pain in this woman’s voice is piercing and powerful.