‘Should I tell my husband our son was adopted?’

I knew I was going to be in trouble with my husband’s family when, after three years of marriage, I could not get pregnant and my mother-in-law started making some snide remarks whenever she came to visit.

She became quite nasty when our marriage clocked five years and yet there was no child forthcoming. Being an only son, my husband was expected to be the one to continue with the family lineage but I was seen as the stumbling block to achieving that.

His five sisters too were not making life easy for me as they openly told me that I was holding their brother with diabolically and that I should leave his house so he could get another wife who would give them children.

In all of this, my husband stood by me and kept telling me not to worry about what his family was doing as he was the one who married me and would stay by me, child or no child.

But when I could no longer take the heat, I confided in a close friend and she advised that I should pretend to be pregnant and when I was due to give birth, she would help me adopt a baby.

I followed her advice and got a fake pregnancy belly which I strapped on and gave all the signs of an expectant mother, vomiting in the morning, spitting all over the place, going for ante-natal care, refusing to eat, being lazy, sleeping all the time, and so on.

My husband could not hide his happiness and even when I told him the doctor advised that I should never have sex till I put to bed, he agreed and vacated our bedroom so that he would not be tempted.

When I was ‘eight months’ gone, my husband suggested I should travel to the UK to have the baby but I told him I would love to have the baby in my hometown and he agreed.

As arranged, my friend had made preparations to adopt a newborn baby for me for a handsome amount of money and by the time I went back home, I had a bouncing baby boy.

While weaning the child, my mother-in-law was surprised that I was not breastfeeding him but I quickly presented them with a medical report (forged of course), where I was certified not fit to breastfeed a baby.

Fast forward to 18 years from that time and I am in a serious dilemma. My son had a very serious medical condition that required blood transfusion and when my husband was tested, his blood group did not match with the boy’s and neither did anyone from his family.

Questions and insinuations are beginning to pop up and I am sure my secret will soon come out in the open.

My problem now is if I should confess to my husband that the boy he has come to love with his life, is actually not his.

Toke.”

Dear readers, Toke did what she had to do because her marriage was being threatened by her in-laws. But on Morning Teaser today, do you think she should confess to her husband and reveal her secret?