Erimma The Stingy And Nagging Wife.
-Don’t Be Selfish In Your Marriage Union

Erimma got married to Omeaku when Omeaku was the first among his equals. Omeaku's Products and Services Company was doing well winning contracts and executing contracts left, right, and center.

Omeaku was indeed a breadwinner of his family. As the saying goes, when the going is good with a man he will not lack friends and well-wishers. Omeaku had a reasonable share of fair-weather friends among his friends.

However, Omeaku was lucky to have belonged to a five-man support team that they formed to support one another's aspirations. Amongst them were three bankers and two businessmen of fame, of which Omeaku was one.

When the going was good the Erimma was a good bread keeper. She was a petty trader, not because of her lack of funds but because it was an agreement she reached with her husband that allowed her to take charge of their home affairs.

Omeaku did not notice that his wife was a stingy and nagging woman until life happened.

There was a financial meltdown. The three members of the five-man support team lost their jobs and the other member, who was a businessman like Omeaku, traveled out of the country and didn't return as expected.

The first three years of the financial meltdown were hell on earth. Omeaku's savings were wiped out after the first year of the meltdown and contracts were not coming. Even the few contracts that came his way there were no funds to execute them.

Omeaku's wife was not helping matters, rather she was busy compounding issues. She kept away all her financial dealings from her husband. She was full of herself nagging, complaining, and boasting about how she had suddenly become a breadwinner of the home.

Omeaku was depressed and disillusioned, but he did allow his newfound faith and trust in the Lord which started at the beginning of the meltdown to wane.

One day he came into his parlor and saw how unkempt his family life had been in the last four to five years since the meltdown started. His furniture and fittings were in bad shape and his bed foam was not spared. All psychologically were a true reflection of his life and family in the last four-plus years now.

Then, he prayed to God for divine assistance and that he might be restored to serve Him better. He promised God that he would start decluttering himself first by forgiving himself and his wife of their wrongdoings before man and God.

He asked God to give him a little bit of a profitable contract, so he could replace his furniture and bed foam as a symbol of his new walk and work relationship with Him.

That prayer of commitment was a turning point in Omeaku's life. A newfound friend of his in the Church called on him to come over and furnish his new duplex apartment for =N=1.5m (one million five thousand Naira) with an advance payment of =N=1m. He promised to give Omeaku an additional cheque of =N=1m for his balance of the job at its completion plus a brotherly gift of =N=500,000.

Omeaku cost the job, and it would cost =N=1.2m to execute. He then approached his wife to assist him with =N=200,000, but his wife turned him down despite his promise to add =N=50,000 as an interest to the principal sum if given.

Omeaku was annoyed, but he was determined and not deterred. He went ahead with the execution of the contract and in the process met a casual friend of the old who helped him with the advance he needed to finish the contract.

The contract was executed within the stipulated time. Omeaku was paid off by his newfound church friend. In return, he paid off his old casual friend who had now become his bosom friend and who told him that he would not accept any interest from him but the mutual continuity of their friendship.

On his way home, he saw a good foam and its pillows and bought them. He quickly got home and took away the torn here-and-there foam and pillows of his family bed and without checking them he doused them with kerosene and set them on fire.

His wife was far away from home when she noticed smoke coming from her compound. She rushed home but it was too late. She was crying that her husband had finished and killed her.

Furthermore, she said her husband burnt her =N=500,000 tucked away from sight out of envy. All her attempts to rescue something out of the said amount could yield nothing but partly burnt =N=5000. The rest had already burnt into ashes.

Omeaku on his part said that he knew nothing about the money; that he burned the foam and its pillows in fulfillment of his promise to God; and that in the last two to three weeks he had asked his wife for financial assistance, but she said that she had nothing.

Moreover, there had not been any form of financial intimacy between him and his wife in the last five years they were married. So, there was no way that he could have known of such a huge amount of money banked within the pillows and foam of their family bed.

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