A 21-year-old Nigerian man has sparked reactions online after vowing never to take care of his mother, as he recounted the events that led to the breakdown of his parents’ marriage.
The young man shared his story in a post reposted by X (formerly Twitter) user @jon_d_doe, claiming his father’s imprisonment abroad changed the course of their family.
Young man recounts father’s imprisonment
According to the 21-year-old, his father travelled to China in 2013 but was later imprisoned there for 12 years.
He claimed that before the imprisonment, his father instructed his mother to sell only one of his cars if she needed money to pay the children’s school fees.
However, he alleged that his mother sold all of his father’s properties and relocated the family to a cheaper house.
The young man further claimed that although his father continued to provide financial support from prison, his mother gradually stopped answering his calls.
Son makes allegations against mother
The 21-year-old also alleged that his mother became pregnant by another man while his father was still in prison and later terminated the pregnancy.
He further claimed that despite his father’s return to Nigeria earlier this year, his mother has refused to contact him, insisting that he should be the one to reach out first.
According to the young man, members of his mother’s family share the same position.
“I’ll never take care of my mother” – Man vows
Expressing his disappointment, the young man said he no longer speaks to his mother and supports his father’s decision to divorce her.
He wrote: “My father married my mom out of pity, and he regretted it. He wants me to understand seriously that I should never get married to a woman out of pity.
At first, my father started hitting my mom when he found that she purposely removed a child for him.
Fast forward to 2013 when my father left for China but due to some circumstances, he was locked up in jail for 12 years.
He returned to Nigeria earlier this year, while in prison, he told my mom to only sell the car he have so she can be able to pay our new terms school fees.
But my mom sold every property he had and went to live in a cheaper house. Of course, the house we were living in was extremely expensive; my father was rich.
When she told my father, he didn’t complain that much. Each time my father called from prison, sometimes she didn’t answer.
On the day she did answer, my father asked her where she was, and she said she was at the market.
My father told her it was noisy, and as they were discussing something else, my mother told my father that he should not be in China commanding her on what to do in Nigeria. She then ended the call.
On another day, he called her. She picked up the call and was complaining that our house rent would expire soon, so my father provided the house rent from prison.
After she took that money from him, she stopped receiving my father’s calls to this day.
In 2017, she slept with another man and got pregnant. My grandfather died then. She came for the burial and that’s when my uncle’s wife discovered that she was pregnant.
She ran away and later aborted the child.
Now my father is back. Do you know I have been telling her to call my father, but she didn’t call him? She’s saying it’s my father who is supposed to call her. Even their family is saying the same thing.
Well, I have stopped talking to her. I’m pained, and I don’t even know how hurt my father will be. I’m a man, and I know how I feel. That means I don’t think my dad will ever forgive her.
Now my father is thinking of divorcing her.
I think I’m in support of it and I’ll never take care of my mother till she leaves this Life.
I’m the first child. I have 3 siblings: 2 boys and 1 girl.
If they think they can take care of her, they should go ahead; I won’t stop them. But as for me, bro, I’ll never ever do it.
And if she dies I won’t accept to bury her in my father’s compound if my father is dead by then. (I’m not wishing death for them) But that’s reality of life.
He’s 21 years old. “
The emotional post has generated mixed reactions on social media.
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