Florence Sandra Whyte, wife of playwright Ebo Whyte has recounted the frustrating moments of the first 10 years of her 38-year-old marriage.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Home Affairs ahead of Mother’s Day, the Evangelist with Aglow Women Ministry revealed that in the first decade of the institution of marriage she and her husband experienced a number of miscarriages.
She admitted that although she and Uncle Ebo had decided to wait for a while before bearing children when they were well prepared to have a child it became a tussle.
The Caterer narrated that ahead of their wedding, she and her husband-to-be had discussed and planned how many children they wanted to have as a couple and how the kids will be brought up.
So when child bearing became difficult, she was often distressed, however, she remained hopeful.
“Every woman marrying looks out for children and we [Uncle Ebo and I] had a lot of conversation concerning the matter. Ebo, kept telling me he wants the children to look like me and I told him I will give him girls because I like girls. We also talked about how we were going to train them and things like that.
“We thought that, why couldn’t we wait for about a year before we start having them. And after that, I had a lot of miscarriages, but we were hopeful,” she told host Edem Knight-Tay.
As a couple, Mrs Whyte said they tried everything to change the narrative, however, whenever she got pregnant, she lost the baby.
She added that it was not a medical problem too so at a point, they just decided to remain calm and rely solely on divine intervention.
“I was 'crife', so going to the hospital for the doctor to tell me to lie down, was a big problem for me, but sometimes he [Uncle Ebo] had to woo me whilst taking me to the hospital. He will be telling me that “Oh, it is okay, you don’t have to worry, it's normal and things like that.”
“But after sometime we realized that we had to wait on God.”
The Evangelist was also grateful to have a supportive mother-in-law.
According to her, Uncle Ebo’s mother unlike some in-laws was their anchor who urged them on to have faith and remain hopeful when they were in despair.
“She was a very good mother-in-law. We were very close. And so she got involved in it and was always encouraging me.
“I think she herself went through a lot of pain [with childbirth]. Her first batch of children all died before she had the surviving ones now, so she understood what we were going through,” she revealed.
However, having a supportive family did not mean she did not encounter any pressure relating to suspicions of barrenness.
According to Mrs Whyte, some people trolled her and passed unprintable comments about her due to her situation, but she remained steadfast.
For Mrs Whyte, all those trying years did not only reaffirm the wondrous works of God, but also made her resolved in His divine mercy.
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