The Star (Jamaica)

My boyfriend ‘stronging up’ but does not know my tubes are tied

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Dear Pastor,

I hope you are coping well in this pandemic and keeping safe. My family is doing well. My man and myself are working from home, and sometimes we get into each other’s way.

My man is a good cook, so these days he is doing more cooking and I am packing on the weight. My man is a schoolteac­her and he sees to it that our children study. He is a better disciplina­rian than I am. He is giving me a very difficult time when it comes to bedroom business. I used to make the excuse that I am tired, now that cannot work any more because he is doing most of the work.

Sometimes I wish I could run away from him; seriously, I mean it. He makes his own juices. He likes his peanut drinks and different types of vegetables and he puts bitters in his drinks. We have four children and I do not wish to have more. Unknowing to him, I stopped myself from having more children. I thought he would have suspected me already, but he has not, and I don’t intend to tell him. Sometimes I wonder if I did the wrong thing by having the operation and not telling him. I know that if I had discussed the matter with him he would not have agreed.

He is a good man, and some women when they complain to me about their men, they would say that they wish their men were like my man. He does not prevent me from going where I want to go, except when I tell him that I want to go to Canada to visit my sister. He is reluctant in telling me that I can go. I have never cheated on my man and I have never been tempted to do so.

Although I am working, he pays most of the bills and he takes care of my car, but I just want to know from you whether I should tell him that I did the operation.

B

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