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Meru - An elderly woman who has been married for close to 30 years has opened up about her challenges in marriage.
Lenah Itheru Murungi endured tough times with her husband, who she said never treated her well.
Together, they had four kids, and despite her loyalty and faithfulness to her husband, she never received the same love.
Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, the 62-year-old recalled the mistreatment she endured in her marriage, adding that some of it was shameful.
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"My husband would land blows on me and even disrespect me more than I could imagine. Efforts to talk and have peace were futile because no one could question him in his house. He would come late at night, drunk and cause chaos.
"Even family members gave up helping us because, despite the dialogue, we always return to the same issues," she claimed.
The woman from Meru recounted going back home to her mother after almost losing her life.
However, Murungi's mother sided with her husband, saying that her daughter was the one in the wrong.
Murungi eventually discovered her mother and husband had an alleged ongoing affair.
"Even when I was being insulted, she would not support me. I thought she would be my haven, but even in her house, I felt broken. They would go to drink together, and when they returned home, they held hands. They would even cook outside so that I don't eat with them," she painfully said.
In another story, Anne Ndungu had a hard time in marriage because she used to bleed incessantly whenever she got cosy with her husband.
By the time the lady got married to her man, she had already experienced sexual assault several times and lost a baby, and she thought she would finally be happy.
Little did she know he would ask her to sleep with other men for babies and be her mum's lover, and she revealed to TUKO.co.ke that the taboo caused her to bleed a lot.
Proofreading by Mercy Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke
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