OBSESSED INCEST

TROUNCE

Domestic violence was not new in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew, but in the wee days of their relationship her husband who was still trying to win her heart over was clever by creating an illusion in the beginning that she was the dominant partner, he idolized her, loved everything about her and constantly told her she was a smart woman. He was so sweet and loving; he wanted to know everything about her family, her childhood, hopes and dreams. He believed in her and also created a solid trust between them. She quickly fell for him, she began dating him, everything was rosy and perfect, she had never met anyone who cared for her this much and was not willing to let go of something so rare and beautiful.

Their relationship blossomed. He finally asked her to marry him in the most beautiful way ever. She was totally swept off her feet and moved in with him. Their engagement lasted for six months before wedding plans started kicking off, she was excited and waited for the special day she would get married to the man she loved with all her heart.

Two months to their wedding, she was in the kitchen dressed in a short and simple shirt. She was cooking dinner and at the same time had surfing the net with smart phone. She got carried away and forgot what she was cooking. Mathew was in the dinning reading sports magazine went he started smelling something burning. He rushed to the kitchen and saw Tina’s eyes locked into her phone. He got angry and rushed towards her and landed a stinging slap on her face, she looked at him bewildered.

“what did I do?”

“you are asking me what you did. Do you want to burn down my house”. She got angry “was that why you slapped me?”

“you dare question what I do, I will teach you never to question me”. He put both of his hands around her neck and squeezed it so tightly that she couldn’t breathe or scream, he repeatedly hit her head on the wall and slapped her face. She freed herself from his grip and smartly pulled out a knife from its rack and pointed at him. He calmed her and begged her to put the knife down. He went down on his knees begging and pleading for forgiveness and swearing the incident would never happen again. She saw sincerity in him and pulled him up. He kissed her so deeply and told her to get dressed that he was going to take her to dinner instead. With pain around her neck and bruises around her shoulders she got dressed and they went out to dinner. She felt guilty for even pointing a knife at him. Despite what happened she still believed in a happy marriage with him, because she loved him and he loved her so much. He promised her he was never going to hurt her again and she held on to that and married the man of her dreams.

Years into the marriage he didn’t keep his promise, he kept on hitting her, and he gave a miserable life instead of a happy ever after. She still stayed married to him hoping he would someday change and be a better husband. Her hopes were never met each day. She had two children for him Mia and Williams, who got really scared of their father and watched they mother continuously been maltreated by their father.

Mia and Williams, ten and thirteen respectively got home from school and heard the screams of their mother. They got into the house and saw their father following the mother with monstrous steps and a belt in his hand. He got hold of her and lashed her with it mercilessly, she begged and cried. The once beautiful Tina had turned into a shadow of herself. He kicked her when he got the chance, dragged her hair and slapped her face, her clothes were torn from struggle. He kept on using the belt on her until the buckle of the belt hit the corner of her left eye and started bleeding.

Mia watched this with horror in her eyes, she started crying as Williams pulled her close and tried to stop her from crying. She pulled away from his hold and rushed at her father as she pulled his arm crying.

“stop hurting my momma”. Mathew pushed her down with a severe stern look,

“don’t you dare come between me and your mother, if you do I will kill you” he turned to look at Tina sprawled on the floor, “you are lucky the children came”. He left them, got into the room and locked himself there calming himself down with a can of beer.

Mia and William, went to their mother who was sobbing so much, to comfort her.

“mommy, let’s leave this house” William said looking at the bruises on her body

“no, we can’t leave, this is your home, where do you want to go to” she said through teary eyes

“mommy daddy keeps hitting you” Mia said in a shaken voice. Tina patted her head

“I am sorry you saw this”.

Everyone in the house treaded on egg shells in the house. Nobody knew the mood Mathew would switch to at any minute. This minutes his smiling and happy, another minute he is sober, another minute he is like an aggressive lion. Tina stayed with him because she still loved him and believed he was just troubled and needed help. She tried all she could to make him happy, but all her efforts were futile. He was domineering and at the slightest provocation he flew into a flaming rage. Mia and Williams lived in fear despite the love the mother showed them. They dreaded coming back from school to meet their father hitting their mother. Mathew stopped her from doing her job and turned her into a full time house wife. All her goals and potentials were buried, she became an ordinary woman, a woman enslaved in the hands of the man she blindly loved, a man who she thought believed in her and her dreams. She still hoped for a change.