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My friend would try to please him all the time. Ironically, that was perhaps the reason that the expected explosion came sooner than expected. The husband's guilt pangs and the wife's sickeningly sweet behaviour and fawning wasn't helping matters any. One day he said he did not love her any more. "I want a divorce," he blurted.
Although the woman knew about her husband's affair, this came as a shock to her. All the time she had been fooling herself into believing that her man was having a harmless fling; the other woman in his life was just a temporary 'play thing', who could not replace THE WIFE. How wrong she was? The other woman had come to stay and the wife was being asked to leave.
Stubbornly she refused. And then another ordeal began.
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The man tried to be gentle and understanding about it. He was ready to give a handsome amount as a settlement. Thankfully there were no children, so they were saved problems like custody. He was even ready to sell the house and divide the proceeds. In short, he was ready to do anything that she wanted, provided she left him alone. And that was the only one thing, she wouldn't do.
Then it started getting ugly. He would come home late; at times not come at all. He stopped being civilised to her. He would insult and abuse her. But she stuck to her guns. "I won't divorce you and I won't leave this house" she maintained. When her grovelling didn't work, she turned to religion - fasting, puja, mannat, visits to religious places, what not. But nothing worked.
One fine day, the husband packed his bag and left. He went to stay with the other woman. The wife was heart-broken. Regardless, she was not ready to end the marriage officially. She was his legally-wedded wife and intended staying that way.
One day he'll come back, she thought. And so he did! "Please, forgive me. After being away from you, I realised that nobody can take your place. That other woman wants to marry me, give me all her wealth and comforts, but I don't want her. You are the only one I love," he sang. And what sweet music it was to her love-starved soul.
That happiness didn't last long. Three days later she came to me. "I am going to divorce him," she said simply without the melodrama. I was aghast. "The husband has gone back to his girlfriend?" I asked. "No. He will not go there because he can't," my friend said calmly. And then she revealed the story.
"I was very happy when he came back. He had left a woman who was younger and prettier than me, who was rich and famous. I felt proud that my love had triumphed," she continued. "Then, what happened?" I interjected. "He didn't leave her, she left him!" was the answer. "He came to me, not out of love, but out of desperation. He needed shelter and a woman to soothe his bruised ego." She shook her head, "I am sorry, but this time he will have to find some other hotel, some other maid!"
This time I had no arguments with her.
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