Friday, August 06, 2010

Nothing must stop him on his path to business success?

Today I read in the Star's 'Other news and views compiled' by a group of journalists that is one of the strangest piece of news I have ever come across. I suppose this is what someone meant when the person says that 'truth is stranger than fiction.'

From China Press, there was this report about a woman who had married a man for fourteen years to live as a single woman.

When this woman was about twenty-six years old, she married a man and they lived happily as most married people would. The man worked very hard and soon had spread his business to a number of Asian countries. Well, he became successful and you would have thought behind every successful man is a woman. And we would have taken for granted that there must be gratitude. Gratitude? I do not really understand his actions. Perhaps he thought, he needed no longer the motivation from the wife. Or that man thought that having a woman around was a hindrance as his business empire was expanding fast. Furthermore, he had already had a married life and once was enough, maybe. So as to avoid the hindrance perhaps, one day when he returned from an overseas business trip he decided to move back with his parents in Singapore and he forbade her from staying with him or meeting him. No, he did not want a divorce either as all he wanted was to focus on his business and so he gave her a monthly allowance of one thousand ringgit. So with just one thousand ringgit a month, he had a wife, a child and a marriage that he did not have to be bothered with. The appeals made by the wife for him to return to the family fell on deaf ears. And with that the poor wife had to live a marriage without a husband she can love and care for. That was how determined he was to focus on his business success. Was it worth it? Who are we to ask when we know not his background and the factors that caused him to make such decisions. All we know is what we have read. The rest we can only guess. But certainly, this is the strangest true life story I have ever known.

According to the story, the man did care about his child as he bought an expensive luxurious condominium a few years ago and took his child to stay with him, leaving the wife alone. Isn't that strange?

What could possibly have happened? Did a clairvoyant foresaw something that caused him to behave thus? Did someone place a curse upon his marriage? Was there actually someone else but he did not want the a marriage break-up to taint his success? His actions are simply to mysterious to comprehend. Whatever it is, it must have been tough for both of them. So we can only pray that they can see a way out of their problems. It is perhaps a case for divine help. God, please help them.

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