Kwaku, we moved to our apartment at a new site last year (November). Two days afterwards, a snake bit my wife while she was trying to take plantains she had kept under the sink. It bit her thumb. She saw it, but it run as fast as it could away from her. She started shouting. Lucky enough I had just gotten home from work, so I rushed in to tie the hand and decided to find and kill the snake. She asked me to find and kill it before I took her to the hospital, wasn't my decision. She said it was a small snake, not too big and brownish.
I searched everywhere but didn't find it. I rushed her to the hospital and she was attended to. Her whole arm became swollen. It was bad. She was in pain. She spent three days in the hospital before being discharged.
Her first statement was, "I'm not going back to that house". So I took her to her sister's place while I worked on putting measures in place to ensure no snake or animals came to the house or around it. She still wouldn't come to the house, especially because I never found the particular snake that bit her in the house.
The sad part is, she's still scared even as she's based with her sister at East Legon, where there are no snakes. I receive calls everyday that she's shouting snake! snake! snake! in her sleep and even during the day, the least thing frightens her.
I've gone to rent so we could be together, cuz I want her home with me but she won't move in. I've rented a two bedroom around the same place her sister lives, but she still won't come. She prefers staying with her sister cuz of a snake attack she's recovered from.
She's my wife and I'm a man, I could protect her better but her only reason for refusing to move in with me or have anything to do with me is because I couldn't find and kill the particular snake that bit her. Anytime I talk about her coming home, her response is, "you couldn't kill the snake that bit me, what if another one comes?". I'm fed up! She behaved as if it's my fault I couldn't kill a snake that I ignored for almost 5mins while tying her hands. I've not been intimate for over 8months, I miss her and I want her home. She is my wife. I don't want to pressure her, cuz she's just responding to her fear. But isn't it too much? What do I do at this point? I want my wife with me.
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