- A Nairobi mother of two narrated how providing for her husband since age 19 left her financially drained and emotionally broken
- From giving him KSh 47,000 for a start-up to KSh 300,000 lost in a fake investment scheme, Grace said she never saw any returns despite years of sacrifice
- The Nairobi woman said her husband cheated on her and eventually abandoned the marriage, leaving her with crushing loans and a painful lesson about misplaced trust
A Nairobi woman has painfully narrated how providing for her ‘lazy’ husband is the biggest mistake of her life.
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Grace Mwende, a mother of two, narrated that she fell in love with the man when she was just 19 years old, and since then, she became the provider in the relationship.
In an interview with TUKO.co.ke, Grace said that during their dating days, when they were in a long-distance relationship, she would send him fare so that he could visit her.
“I had gotten a job at Isiolo, and so whenever he came to visit me, I would send him fare, and when he was leaving, I would pay for transport back. This happened until I got pregnant with our firstborn,” she recounted.
Grace Mwende finances husband’s pseudo business ideas
Grace said that when her child was one year old, she visited the man’s sister in Nairobi, and during her stay there, she called him and asked him to move in together with her and start life as a married couple.
When they moved in together, she was in charge of all household bills, including food and rent, because her husband preferred staying in the house all day while she went to hustle.
“When we moved in as a couple, I started a grocery business, which picked very well. But my husband was just idling in the house. So I saved up to about KSh 17,000 and offered it to him, suggesting that he should start a business. However, he asked me to save more so that he could start a sensible business,” she said.
She then raised the savings to KSh 47,000 and handed it to him. Her goal was to see him busy, as he was always idling and alone in the house.
However, two months later, the said business collapsed. But to this day, she did not know whether the business was actually set up or if it was all a hoax.
Sometime later, she gave him KSh 50,000, after he said he wanted to set up a wine shop.
The ‘business’ equally collapsed, and he returned to her empty-handed.
In 2021, the man then told Grace about a business which was offering interests depending on how much one would invest.
“I gave him KSh 300,000, and then months down the line, he confessed that it was a fraud and that all the money I had given him was lost,” she said.
All this while, Grace believed that her husband loved her and that one day things would work out.
Grace builds her husband a house
As if all the money she had invested in him was not enough, she decided to build him a house in his rural Meru home.
“I visited his home in the village during a burial, and I discovered that he had no house. When we returned, I decided to use the KSh 750,000 that I had saved for the project. I gave him my ATM card, and he returned it with only KSh 9. I had to take loans from shylocks and friends because the KSH 750k was not enough to build the house,” she added.
As she ran out of money and resources to fund his lifestyle, her marriage started crumbling, bit by bit, as the man started cheating.
“One time, a woman called me and told me she was having an affair with my husband. I confronted him later, and after so many issues in our home, he left and went back to the village to live with his mother,” she said painfully, adding she is still struggling to pay the loans she took to finance her husband.
With the man’s departure from the marriage, Grace is also now the sole provider of their two kids.
She advises women in relationships and marriages not to support their significant others blindly, and with no reciprocation.
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Siaya woman proudly provides for jobless husband
In other news, a Siaya woman also sparked reactions among Kenyans after revealing that she provides for her jobless husband.
A few months ago, she had the rare chance of running into MP Jalang’o, who paid her KSH 1k for her bananas, but in a twist, the money was sent to her husband’s M-Pesa.
The woman said she also bought her hubby a phone.
Proofreading by Asher Omondi, copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
