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Young widow cri£s out, says her husband family wants to take every thing from her two days after her husband d!ed

Young widow cri£s out, says her husband family wants to take every thing from her two days after her husband d!ed

My husband and I had been together for 11 years.
He died on a Tuesday morning, and by Thursday evening, members of his family had already arrived at our compound.

They did not come to mourn him. They did not come to sit with me or comfort me. They did not come to console my daughters, who were still crying themselves to sleep every night.

Instead, they came with a notepad. His younger brother, Emmanuel, walked around the compound writing things down.

The same compound my husband built from scratch. The same compound he built with hard work and determination, a six-bedroom duplex with boys’ quarters and a garden he personally planted because he wanted our daughters to grow up surrounded by nature.”

And this man was talking about all of my husband’s investment properties, as if it was his own.

He said that because I did not have a male child, all of my husband’s properties would go back to his family.

Everything my husband spent years building, all his investments, would belong to them.

According to him, my daughters and I would get nothing, not even the house we lived in.

I simply looked at him and said, ‘Emmanuel, get out of my compound right now.’
He laughed in my face. As he walked toward the gate, he turned and said, ‘Don’t make this harder than it needs to be. You are just a woman. You need to start thinking about your daughters from now on.’

I looked at him and replied, ‘Oh yes, I am thinking about my daughters. And that is exactly why I am not moving an inch.’

They thought grief had broken me. They thought sorrow had weakened me. But they forgot that the woman who held this family together for 11 years was still standing.
And that woman is me.”

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