Dear GhanaWeb: My wife left me after I returned huge sum of dollars I found in my car

Dear GhanaWeb,

I’m a 32-year-old man who is married to a 27-year-old woman. I’ve been married for 3 years with a son. I used to be a trotro driver before I met my wife. A year after we got married, she spoke to one of our mutual friends to help me get a new car.

I don’t earn enough from the trotro, so my wife suggested I subscribe to a taxi or bolt business. I eventually got a car that I used as taxi. Everything was going on fine.

Two weeks after I started working, I picked a random man and his girlfriend. During the trip, the girlfriend was so rude to me but the man was nice. I dropped them off and the man paid me and on top of it, added a tip.

I closed for the day and I decided to clean the car before entering the house. That’s when I saw a brown envelope at the back seat; I opened it and to my surprise, it was full of dollars. I panicked and rushed home.

I showed the money to my wife and she was so happy. She attributed it to God giving us a breakthrough. I told my wife how rude the lady was to me and she called my finding the dollars in my car as karma dealing with the rude girlfriend.

It’s a whole lot of money which could change our lives. The morning after bringing the money home, my wife said we should go to the forex bureau to change it into cedis. I stepped out to think about it thoroughly but I didn’t change the money. Rather, I withdrew money from my personal account and took my wife out for shopping and later to a restaurant.

She commented that it’s been years since she ate a good meal like the one on the day we went out. I’ve never seen my wife so happy in a while like she was.

In as much as we were both happy about the money, I didn’t have a good feeling about keeping it.

I had sleepless nights. I was thinking whether to return the money or keep it for a better life. The next morning, I decided to return it to relieve my conscience. I didn’t tell my wife anything while leaving home to return the money.

When I got to the man’s house, I met the rude lady rather. I told her I had come to return the money I found in my car.

Shockingly, she slapped me and called me a thief. I asked if that’s my reward for returning the money and she replied who am I to expect an appreciation from her?

I went home and my wife asked if I went to change the money. She said she went to buy some foodstuffs on credit and was waiting for me to bring the money to pay. I told her I had returned the money and she looked so disappointed. I apologised to her but she was so angry.

She started packing her things and when I asked her why, she said she could see I enjoy being poor or maybe because she’s with me regardless, I’m not putting in effort to take us out of poverty, stressing she is tired.

I begged her but she never listened to me. She’s left me together with my son. I’ve pleaded and done everything to let her return home but all to no avail.

I know I failed her but what can I do for her to forgive me. I’m so empty without her; she brings light into my life. I don’t want to lose my family. I need help!

FG/AME

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