Nollywood actress Rita Edochie is quite unbothered by the defamatory lawsuit from Judy Austin, the wife of her husband’s nephew.
Amid the suit, Rita addressed women with cheating husbands, saying they don’t have a choice if they accommodate such men. She laughed at the possibility of Judy trying to stop her from talking.
“Hear me.
Any woman who accommodates a cheating husband doesn’t have a choice.
Look for a way to stop Rita Edochie from talking? Me?
If a proactive move is not made to end his madness, he will one day bring those ladies into your home and make out with them right on your matrimonial bed.
You will be too helpless to do anything at that point because you have no choice.
Let me say it louder for those sitting at the back to hear. If you want to lose your sanity and your mental peace, accommodate a cheating husband because you know you don’t have the means of survival, or you think you love him and he will change.
Look, some women are not staying because they love the humiliation; they are staying because marriage, children, family pressure, financial realities, emotional attachment, and society can make walking away far more complicated than people outside the marriage will ever understand.
But let us also stop pretending that cheating is a small mistake that a woman must swallow forever to prove that she is a good wife.
A man who knows his wife will keep forgiving him can become comfortable with disrespect and infidelity.
Today, it’s Chinasa.
Tomorrow it is Nkechi.
Next thing, he has turned infidelity into a lifestyle while expecting his wife to keep smiling, cooking, praying and playing the role of the perfect woman.
No now!!
Forgiveness is not permission.
Patience is not stupidity.
Submission is not servitude.
And marriage is not a license for one person to repeatedly humiliate the other.
Anyway, if a woman chooses to stay, that is her decision. But let nobody turn her decision into a permanent contract to ensure disrespect.
And to the men who think a wife will never leave because of children, family or society, remember this:
A woman can endure for years and still wake up one morning with absolutely nothing left to give.
That is when you will realise that the woman you thought had no choice actually had one.
She was only giving you time.
I believe everyone has a breaking point.
Stop tolerating a cheating husband even if he is your beacon of fin”.