One of the greatest challenges couples face in today’s world, is that of career advancement, leading to absent husbands or wives. This might lead to infidelity, not to mention death. This article is a fictional one, with a story about a very successful couple, the wife being an absent one, as a roving director of a massive law firm.
George and Nancy were happily married, way back in 1998. They had what was dubbed the wedding of the year in mid December 1998.
An accountant by profession, George had his own audit firm at an up-market neighborhood in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. Nancy, a lawyer, had her own practice at another up-market area of Nairobi. They appeared to be doing well by all standards.
Come the year 2004, Nancy started an aggressive expansion program that saw her opening branches of her law firm in a number of towns in Kenya. By the year 2006, she had opened branches in Kisumu and Mombasa cities, Thika, Nyeri, Kitale and Kericho. Each branch had 9 employees. Business was excellent.
She became a roving director, visiting her different branches from time to time. Together with her husband, they bought a townhouse in the up-market area of Lavington, Nairobi, near her firm’s offices, at a cost of US$400,000.00. That was no mean achievement for a couple aged 38 and 35 respectively for George and Nancy.
George, on his part, was a hands-on auditor, who did the actual work himself, along with his two partners. Owing to the volume of work, he could carry work home, and sometimes work on weekends.
Due to Nancy’s numerous absences, she decided to call her youngest sister, Vivian, to join them at their house, so as to help with the house-work. Vivian had just completed her high school education.
One day, in mid March 2008, thanks to Facebook, Imelda, George’s old college-mate, reunited with him. She wanted help in setting up her books for her salon and boutique business in Nairobi.
George took up the assignment himself. They had a series of meetings, whereby she guided Imelda on the books of initial entries, among other things.
By July 2008, Imelda’s accounting system was up and running. One evening in September 2008, Imelda called George at 4.00pm, citing a problem with her accounting system. George went over to Imelda’s office and sorted out the problem. Imelda requested George to drop her home, since her car was in the garage. George obliged.
It was a 30-minute drive. Imelda took this opportunity to openly and tearfully share her frustrations, mainly with her landlord, as well as with her siblings, who were unwilling to share with her her late Dad’s inheritance upon his passing on.
nice post 
Oh, sorry for the error. 
I mean “his” wife ( not “her”)
It is always a shame hear of a tragedy like this even though this was a hypothetical scenario, this happens far too often in real life. If only they could think ahead of the possible or probable outcomes it might serve as a deterrent in entering a situation like that. Ahhh, if only we could see into the future, how many things would we do differently Great story.
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