It was a normal, busy weekday. I was driving to work and noticed cars parked along the highway. I realised that there was a police crackdown on traffic violators and, to my horror, I suddenly realised that I had forgotten my driving license at home. Luckily, no one stopped me.

When I got to work, I decided to park my car and take a bus home to get my license. I wasn’t going to take chances and risk trouble on my way home in the evening.

When I got home, I found the house silent. My husband had said he had a headache and was not going to work. I figured he was in bed, still asleep. My daughter, a university student, had mentioned she didn’t have didn’t have morning classes so she was probably studying in her bedroom.

I tip-toed upstairs to our room so as not to disturb my sleeping husband. I knew exactly where the license was so I thought I could just grab it and ease the door shut…until I heard noises from the bedroom.

I had never suspected my husband for cheating on me let alone bringing a woman to my house. But what I saw was beyond anyone’s imagination; my husband having sex with our daughter!

The sight of my daughter and my husband naked on my very bed sickened me. I still get nauseated at the sheer thought of the spectacle. It was more ugly than shocking. Momentarily, I thought I had gone mad. I opened my mouth to scream but nothing came out.

Then my daughter shamelessly retorted: “Mum, why are you surprised? I thought you knew it all along!” And to rub it in, my husband confirmed that what they were doing was no mistake. “The only mistake we’ve made is using your bed,” my husband arrogantly said. Only the previous night, he and I were very intimate on the same bed. What a betrayal!

Their retorts brought me back to my senses and I walked out. I later told my in-laws and the village elders what I had seen and all of us were summoned. My husband can win an Oscar; he denied everything saying that he was very concerned I was losing my mind. I was shocked when he and my in-laws suggested I should get psychiatric help. I knew they had beaten me and I got into serious depression.

I kicked my husband out of our bedroom and as expected he ran into his ‘lovers’ arms. My two sons kept aloof and never encouraged any discussion about what was happening. Maybe they too blame me for their sister’s insanity though their distant relationship never changed.

Thoughts of pain and regret started creeping through my mind. I had severally been warned by concerned women who had seen them together that the two were overly involved. I often told-off the women justifying the closeness with the obvious fact that it is psychologically proven that daughters love their fathers more than their mothers.