Friends Women’s Association SEPTEMBER 2024 Report
“I am a woman who is a victim of psychological violence and no one knows it. My husband is a quite person but I am suffering. We got married illegally and no one told me that he had 2 other women that he married before me.
One day, I was cultivating in the field and two women looked at me and said: his husband always chooses hardworking women, look how she cultivates!
When I heard that I was shocked, I became weak and I went home. I did my research about it and I found that this story is true.
After 2 years I started to worry because we had not yet had a child. My husband does not answer me when I ask about this subject. I went to the hospital alone. If I suggested him to go to a gynecologist, he didn’t answer me. I suffered in my heart, but when I am with others, I try to hide my pain. I said that I am well that this situation does not do anything to me. I took myself as a strong woman, but I suffered in my heart. My husband sometimes can’t be able to have sex. We can go months without having sex, I beg him to go get treatment; he stays calm. Sometimes I saw him taking medication to resolve this problem for a while and until now it has been four years that we haven’t had sex. I can’t tell this problem to anyone because our culture doesn’t allow it but………………………………….
