Kate abandons Dorgu for younger lover after two children

By Esteri(inmyheart@punchng.com)

Dorgu is in a dilemma. In spite of making his wife comfortable, the young lady suddenly abandoned him for a younger lover, sharing the two sons according to their paternity. How can Dorgu handle this turn of event?

Mr. Theophilus Dorgu has been my very wonderful neighbour for about seven years. He is a perfect gentleman, but he could not get married early for sundry reasons. Apart from having to see his younger siblings through school and helping them to find their feet, he says a lot about his desire to give the best to his wife and children.

So he intensified efforts at building his income earning capability to a level, where he could conveniently realise his dream home; a place where cash will be easy to get hold of in the family.

When he believed he was to settle down into matrimony, he took interest in a young lady, though some of his relations argued that she was too young for him as a wife. The young lady, Kate, during her visits to Theo's house, hardly struck me as a good wife-to-be. Before long, she was said to have become pregnant and my neighbour decided to take her in as his wife.

By virtue of my closeness to Dorgu, I knew that some of his relatives queried his plan to marry the girl. They insinuated that the pregnancy might not be his, pleading with him not to take responsibility (for the pregnancy) except he was certain that it was his.

But he usually told them in a mild, but firm way that his heart was with Kate. On that ground, he was given the moral and social support to properly marry the girl according to tradition. As he envisaged, he had all that was required to spoil his wife and he stopped at nothing to satisfy her, especially because of her status as an expectant mother.

One year after the first child, the lady had a second one - both boys. On a certain day, she did something very strange. When we had all left the compound to our places of work, Kate packed all her belongings and took some huge amount of money with the two children and left. She went to the residence of one of Dorgu's sisters in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and left the younger boy with her. She told her that she had to travel urgently, although she did not state when she would be back.

On his return from work, Dorgu did not meet his wife at home. So, he thought she might have gone out to get some items for the home. But as day wore on and she did not return, he decided to check his sister's place. There, he met one of his sons. He wondered why his wife would have left without his notice and became apprehensive.

But the import of her action did not dawn on him until the following day when Kate did not return home. He got in touch with her family members, and his own family members waded in the case. Just as they were looking round the house for any clue about what might be happening to her, a note written by Kate was discovered.

The content showed that only the younger son belonged to Dorgu; that the other child belonged to someone else - Kate's former lover. She said that she had returned to the young man with her first his son; meaning that the first pregnancy was not Dorgu's.

My neighbour was bewildered as he wondered what he had done to deserve this kind of treatment from Kate. What should he do? Should he follow Kate to the young man's place and make both of them pay for messing up his life, or should he just lie low?