There’s a woman I know who’s been married for 12 years.
She’s been working ever since she got married,
And so has her husband.
She doesn’t own a car,
So she has to take public transportation or an Uber.
Back in the day,
There was no other form of transportation except public transportation or the metro.
This woman is about 8 years older than me.
She didn’t stop working when she had a daughter,
And a son 5 years later.

She’s both a mother and a father at home.
She helps them study.
She takes them everywhere.
She works,
And she doesn’t have a car.
She takes them to the nursery,
School,
And private tutoring lessons.
She has other responsibilities at home too.
She gets these things done using public transportation,
Even though her husband has a car.
He never thought to take the children anywhere,
And let her go home.
He never thought to run errands for the household.
She’s required to do all those things,
While taking care of herself, her children, and her husband.

She’s 38 or 39 years old,
But she looks no older than 18 years old.
She has a frail body,
And doesn’t take care of herself.
She doesn’t have time to make herself something to eat at work.
And he still complains,
That she isn’t doing enough for him and her home.
He complains that the house isn’t up to his standards,
And that it isn’t clean enough.
He wants the food they eat to always be freshly made.
This is of course affecting them as a family,
And affecting her mental and physical health.

The one thing I want to stress on,
Is that she’s performing the roles of both the mother and father,
Even though the father is around.
He doesn’t even show his children affection.
His children feel that he is not around.
“How come he never spends time with us?
What’s he doing?”
He’s not there.
They both make the same amount of money.
So what is it that he’s providing the family with?
He feels that she’s not doing enough.
She’s not taking good care of the house.
He’s not proud of her.
If they weren’t Christian,
It would’ve ended a long time ago.
But unfortunately it’s still ongoing.