How my father was rewarded after spending 37 years trying to make his wife happy — Journalist narrates

David Hundeyin, a journalist, recounts his father’s painful experience in the name of wanting to make his wife happy.

How my father was rewarded for spending 37 years trying to make his wife happy – Journalist David Hundeyin narrates

His horrific story of how his father’s 37 years of labor went down the drain without appreciation from his mother was detailed on the microblogging platform Twitter.

The journalist went on to say that the event led him to divorce months after his father died.

Read his account below…

“ My old man spent 37 years building an empire with a woman who was simply incapable of love, even after 5 children.

Of course he died before her, estranged from even his children after she isolated him from everyone including his family to make him dependent on her.
And when he died and went I to the ground at Vaults & Gardens, let me tell you what happened: NOTHING.

Within 1 week, my phone stopped ringing. The world moved on. His wife started chasing his property. I resumed my new job at Channels TV.

Nothing happened. Absolutely nothing.
His good friend Paul the Flour Mills GM invited me for a chat at the Wheatbaker, and spent half of the conversation boasting about his new house on Bourdillon Road. No closure, no resolution, nothing.

It was traumatising as hell, but I learned a very valuable lesson from it.
Lesson: Evolution has designated men to be the protectors and problem solvers for the human species, but men should not let their whole lives revolve around trying to make a woman happy.

Because when you try and fail and die trying, the world moves on. Nothing will happen.
There was no medal for D.F.’s dead body after 37 years of unhappy marriage. His sacrifice was not recognised. Nobody cared.

It’s no coincidence that within 12 months of his death, I asked for a divorce.

I can never forget that lesson.”