Do not court temptation
Aug 12, 2009
THIS is a real story from my client who gracefully allowed us to share it in the hope that you will learn from it. It is about a husband who will, for the purposes of this story, go by the name of Mr Husband.
THIS is a real story from my client who gracefully allowed us to share it in the hope that you will learn from it. It is about a husband who will, for the purposes of this story, go by the name of Mr Husband.
Mr Husband could not relax because his wife was so beautiful. He always wondered how strong her fidelity breaks were and wanted to ring-fence her top political position so that only he could stand for it. So, like the developers of Entebbe Airport, he decided to put her to the test.
He started sending anonymous admiration mails to her, signed Stranger in Love. His wife started enjoying the mails and even writing back. In a way Entebbe was in the process of being sold off.
For the start, things were looking very innocent but things fell apart as you should be imagining. His wife always replied the mails of Stranger in Love, sent him her picture, and would complain whenever he did not write.
The worst came when she started sharing her marriage secrets to Stranger in Love about her husband’s reducing love, increasing selfishness and lack of care.
She even said he had often failed to notice her change of hair style, no longer complimented her efforts at being smart and always complained of scarcity of money.
Whenever Mr Husband read his wife’s mails, he ran berserk and had to restrain himself from exploding in anger. So at home, the two lived in immaculate deception with the wife hiding her secret lover beneath her dedicated face and the husband pretending he didn’t know the secret.
But, somehow, Mr. Husband was torturing himself. The sweet words his wife was writing to Stranger in Love made him so mad that he felt like killing him. Yet Stranger in Love was his own shadow.
One Sunday, his wife braved a serious storm to go out of the house into the internet café to send Stranger in Love a message. She even refused Mr. Husband’s suggested storm games and said she had an important e-mail she was expecting. Mr. Husband’s shadow had won; it was very confusing. He took the nearest route to my office and we discussed his quagmire. I told him about the story of a man called Mr Jesus who got lost from his disciples for 40 days!
Nobody knew where He had gone! It was later revealed that He had been interacting with Mr Satan, who tempted Him with so many things including wealth. Jesus told his disciples that he had brushed off the devil with the commandment: Thou shalt not put the Lord, your God to the test.
We agreed to put an end to this. He was supposed to suggest a rendezvous where he would confess that he was the Stranger in Love. The two were supposed to act with restraint and forgive each other and live happily ever after.
But when she accepted to meet him at a dubious hotel, arrived home with new clothes, refused to play games and rose up so early to go to the salon, Mr Man could not stomach all the jealousy. They picked up a quarrel in which he told her that he was the shadow she was excited to meet at the said hotel.
You will find the full story of what happened on my blog as soon as I make out what blog means. For now I would like to take this opportunity to suggest that you get a Bible and look for information concerning the way Jesus taught his listeners how to pray. I think it is on page 737. He included the plea that specifically asked his dad not to lead us into temptation.
In every relationship, it is very easy to discover what you have feared all along even when it is non- existent. Do not look for trouble; you will find it. It is safer to assume that your partner’s electable positions are ring-fenced than using clandestine means to sniff it out. Let those who have ears hear.
hbainemigisha@newvision.co.ug
Mr Husband could not relax because his wife was so beautiful. He always wondered how strong her fidelity breaks were and wanted to ring-fence her top political position so that only he could stand for it. So, like the developers of Entebbe Airport, he decided to put her to the test.
He started sending anonymous admiration mails to her, signed Stranger in Love. His wife started enjoying the mails and even writing back. In a way Entebbe was in the process of being sold off.
For the start, things were looking very innocent but things fell apart as you should be imagining. His wife always replied the mails of Stranger in Love, sent him her picture, and would complain whenever he did not write.
The worst came when she started sharing her marriage secrets to Stranger in Love about her husband’s reducing love, increasing selfishness and lack of care.
She even said he had often failed to notice her change of hair style, no longer complimented her efforts at being smart and always complained of scarcity of money.
Whenever Mr Husband read his wife’s mails, he ran berserk and had to restrain himself from exploding in anger. So at home, the two lived in immaculate deception with the wife hiding her secret lover beneath her dedicated face and the husband pretending he didn’t know the secret.
But, somehow, Mr. Husband was torturing himself. The sweet words his wife was writing to Stranger in Love made him so mad that he felt like killing him. Yet Stranger in Love was his own shadow.
One Sunday, his wife braved a serious storm to go out of the house into the internet café to send Stranger in Love a message. She even refused Mr. Husband’s suggested storm games and said she had an important e-mail she was expecting. Mr. Husband’s shadow had won; it was very confusing. He took the nearest route to my office and we discussed his quagmire. I told him about the story of a man called Mr Jesus who got lost from his disciples for 40 days!
Nobody knew where He had gone! It was later revealed that He had been interacting with Mr Satan, who tempted Him with so many things including wealth. Jesus told his disciples that he had brushed off the devil with the commandment: Thou shalt not put the Lord, your God to the test.
We agreed to put an end to this. He was supposed to suggest a rendezvous where he would confess that he was the Stranger in Love. The two were supposed to act with restraint and forgive each other and live happily ever after.
But when she accepted to meet him at a dubious hotel, arrived home with new clothes, refused to play games and rose up so early to go to the salon, Mr Man could not stomach all the jealousy. They picked up a quarrel in which he told her that he was the shadow she was excited to meet at the said hotel.
You will find the full story of what happened on my blog as soon as I make out what blog means. For now I would like to take this opportunity to suggest that you get a Bible and look for information concerning the way Jesus taught his listeners how to pray. I think it is on page 737. He included the plea that specifically asked his dad not to lead us into temptation.
In every relationship, it is very easy to discover what you have feared all along even when it is non- existent. Do not look for trouble; you will find it. It is safer to assume that your partner’s electable positions are ring-fenced than using clandestine means to sniff it out. Let those who have ears hear.
hbainemigisha@newvision.co.ug