“I Can’t Stay With You If You Can’t Give Birth to a Girl, My Husband Told Me”

My name is Mercy, a mother of two boys from Migori, and for years I believed my marriage was strong, peaceful, and blessed. I loved my husband deeply, and I thought he loved me the same way. But everything changed the day he looked me straight in the eyes and told me something that shattered my heart:
“If you can’t give birth to a girl, I will leave you.”

Those words broke me. I didn’t know whether to cry, scream, or walk away. I had given this man my youth, my loyalty, and two beautiful children, yet suddenly I was no longer enough. Every day after that, he treated me like a failure, as if I personally chose the gender of our children. He stopped talking to me with love, he came home late, and he even hinted that other women out there could “give him what he wanted.”…CONTINUE READING

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