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Expat’s Wife Dilemma
Her husband left her stranded in a foreign country’s airport—Faith’s comeback story after twenty-nine years.
Asa left his wife, Faith, a mother of four children, stranded in a foreign country airport. Expat’s Wife dilemma.
And, what next?
Faith attended the University of Jos, a progressive university in the liberal city of Jos in Nigeria. Students came from all parts of the country and countries worldwide to attend Unijos.
She spent her younger years on the beautiful campus of the University of Jos — beautiful lines of oak trees waving goodbye or welcoming students as they rushed to classes or the dorm rooms.
Faith met her ex-husband, Asa, in the university’s Macroeconomic class. He asked her for help studying for the mid-term exam since the materials were complex. It was more difficult for Asa, an engineering student than Faith, an economics student.
Faith took three years of economics classes in secondary school and was more advanced in the materials than most of her classmates. She helped him study for the exam, which led to friendship and dating.
After college, they both got jobs at a well-sought-after multinational oil company and moved to Warri, Nigeria. They married in a…
