Keeping Each Other

ONE

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Hi, I'm Damien and I used to be a happily married man, I'm still married though, just not sure if I'm still happy. My beautiful wife Juliet whom I've been married to for 7 years is not making it easy for me.

All the fun things we did before marriage and even during the early years of our marriage, we ain't doing them no more.

She changed! I changed! We both changed In our own different ways.

I became so engrossed with work after she became so engrossed with the kids.
She uses the kids as an excuse not to spend time with me. Like:
Before when she is in the kitchen preparing meals, I could sneak up on her, hold her waist and kiss her passionately but now, she will say "stop it the kids might see us."

Before, her dress sense was to kill but after her first pregnancy she kept wearing those maternity kind of clothes that she wore during her pregnant days.

Before, she calls me either baby, honey, sugar pie or any sweet name that comes to mouth, Now she calls me daddy Jason, daddy jasmine or even daddy J.

Daddy ko? Daddy ni? Why not daddy G. O??

Before we would lay on our bed at night and talk about a lot of things, sometimes we even gossip till one of us falls asleep but now, she would say she is tired and when I complain, she would ask me "do you know what is compared to taking care of two toddlers and preparing meals through out the day?"

I can't even remember the last time she let me have sex with her, all the gymnastics we did in bed before marriage and even during our early years of marriage, we don't do them anymore.

To crown it all, all the things she did to get me attracted to her, all the things she did to make me say the three magic words "I love you" and the Two commitment words "I do" she don't do them anymore.

If you are a woman and you are reading this, my advice for you is don't stop don't stop trying to impress your man, don't stop doing those things you did to make him fall head over heels in love with you.

Treat him like he is still your boyfriend, like he is your baby because he is your baby. Show him love, not just love tender love.

Hmmmm.

I love my wife but I'm tired!

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"Daddy J, your food is ready." my wife called out. She is in the dinning setting the table and I had just come out from the shower.

"okay!" I replied.

Getting to the dinning, the food was placed on the table in front of my chair and it was covered neatly, She was seated close to my chair. I took my sit and opened the food.

Hmmm...

Pounded yam and ogbono soup! Just the way I like it.
I looked at her smiling face, her beautiful set of teeth was so bright.

She is wearing a hair net on her head and tied a wrapper on her chest which was a huge turn off for me but I decided to shrug it off.

"Do you like it?" she asked.

"of course. Why won't I? It's my best!" I smiled giving her a satisfied grin.

I stretched the washing hand bowl to her so that she could wash her hands and we would eat.

"I'm eating with the kids. I need to feed them."

"okay." I decided not to complain. We've been through this before and it never ends well. I decided to eat alone in peace.

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"Are the kids asleep now?" I asked her. Since I came back from work, the only quality time we had spent together was at the dinning table when she sat close to me and watched me eat. We had not gotten time to talk about how our days went.

After feeding the kids, she took them to their room to guide them on how to answer their assignments and pet them till they fell asleep.

"Yes they are." she let out a huge sigh.. "I need to take my bath."

She collected the towel and her night wear and went straight into the bathroom.

I looked at the time it was 10:43pm.

When she came back, she sat in front of the mirror to do her normal after bath routine; first, she cleans her face with wipes, then apply her facial cream on it then run powder on her neck.

She stood up and came to the bed to lie down then she covered herself with the comforter.

"Juliet." I called.

"yes??"

"are you going to sleep just like that?"

"is there something that I'm supposed to do for you?" she answered.

The most annoying thing is that she laid with her back facing me. I slid my hands under the comforter and shifted close to her, I kissed her temple and her neck, I used my hands to rub her thighs but she stopped me.

"Damien, what did you eat this evening???"

"What kind of question is that? Pounded yam of course."

"Good! It takes strength to pound yam. And I'm tired! God knows I've told you before that we should order for the machine online but you didn't talk about it again since that day?"

"You didn't remind me, you know I think about a lot of things. I work, and my mind has to work fast to find a way to provide for you and the kids."

"So this is what this is about?? Telling me to my face that I'm a jobless house wife."

"I didn't call you that, you were the one who choose to stop working so that you can take care of your kids and give them the proper care till they are old enough to be cared for by a baby sitter." I was growing impatient and just needed to defend my self to avoid her wrath.

"your kids. They aren't urs abi? Daddy J, I need to sleep." she turned from me, used the comforter to cover her self very well and slept.

Have you ever been rejected by your wife in bed before? It's a very painful experience.

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