The Process of Escape

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Myrna Rochelle Roberts, PhD

There was a woman who was given to her wealthy husband while she was still very young. The woman had many children with her brutally oppressive husband. The wife was seldom permitted to leave their house, instead she cultivated a wonderful and welcoming home for her family. Had the wife ventured out even a small amount, she would have seen her husband carousing other women just down the street or right around the corner. For every child the wife had, her husband had at least two others with different women.

When the woman was in her 20s, she could not imagine herself apart from her husband because he took care of most of her children, and some he cared for well. If you asked her, she would say, “I love all my husband's children and I treat all of them as if they were my own. Now, some of my kids love all their siblings; but some of my other kids are rowdy, independent thinkers. They don’t like their counterpart siblings and demonstrate their discontent well, particularly toward those who try to act like they are better”.

​When the woman was in her 30s, she had to admit to herself that the husband, while wealthy and powerful, was violent and oppressive, and he had an uncle who was abusing her children. Her husband seemed to acquiesce to his uncle, giving the nod to sacrificing her male children and some females as well.

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