My mum met this man somewhere and they exchanged contacts with the hopes of him patronizing her business. Then the man would always text her and call her. He started calling her romantic names, so she told me about it. I then explained to her that the man likes her, hence his reason for calling her such names. Her reply was that I was overthinking, that it’s not true, that he’s a deacon in church. This man in question is married with children and grandchildren (he’s in his 70s). My mum’s in her 50s. They became close. He was always calling her, they would be laughing and gisting on the phone. So fast forward to when she asked me to do something on her WhatsApp and just out of curiosity, I opened the man’s message and started seeing things. I mean, they are literally dating, calling each other “sweetheart”, “the love of my life”, and honestly, I haven’t been myself since I saw it. To think she even goes out to see him. I mean, it’s just been a year since my dad passed and she’s already with someone—not just someone but a man who’s old enough to be her father, like literally the same age as her father.
Even if she was lonely and wanted to date someone, not a married man. There are many single men out there. Funny enough, the man’s wife called her to warn her to stop calling her husband. She even told me about it. The man even brings his marital problems to her and they gossip about the wife. She doesn’t know that I’m aware of their relationship. I feel so, so disappointed in her. I’m heartbroken and don’t know who to talk to about it. I can’t even tell my siblings because it’s embarrassing. And the fact that they have already had sex—my God! I don’t know why this hurts so much. I just can’t get over it.
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