Nada Al-Ahdal | A while ago a friend brought me a suitor! She kept trying to persuade me to meet him, saying I would lose nothing
A while ago a friend brought me a suitor!
She kept trying to persuade me: meet him, you won't lose anything if you see him.
I agreed, and the suitor did come with his sister to my friend's house; my friend's husband and the suitor already knew each other.
During the meeting I discovered that the man was married and not separated from his wife, who lives in Jordan with his three daughters, contrary to what he had led my friend and her husband to understand, that he was separated from her!
And he started justifying to me his reasons for wanting to marry a second wife, among them that his wife is “mean” to his mother, and that she doesn't go down to wash her sheets, clean her windows, cook her stuffed vine leaves and beat the dust out of her rugs!
And among them that he stays with his first wife only because she looks after the girls!
And after listening to his plea about his reasons for looking for a second wife! I took a deep breath, meant to stop me losing my temper, and now I…
Nada Al-Ahdal | Human rights activist campaigning against child marriage
