Maame Ama, a Ghanaian woman living in the UK, has opened up about the emotional turmoil she’s going through in her marriage. According to her, her husband has neglected her sexually and emotionally, preferring to engage in online relationships and phone sex with other women.
Back in Ghana, the couple didn’t live together. He would only visit her for a few days at a time. When he finally brought her to the UK, Ama says things quickly became strange. One day, while helping him charge his phone, a message popped up from another woman saying, “I’ve missed you. When am I seeing you?” Curious and alarmed, she checked and found out he had been dating a Nigerian woman in the UK even before bringing her over. Shockingly, she discovered he had slept with that woman just two days before her arrival.
When she confronted him, he dismissed her pain and told her to go cry. He then insulted her for three days straight. Ama says the only time he had sex with her was on the day she arrived in the UK—and since then, she has had to beg for intimacy. “He always says he’s tired,” she said. She even tried buying aphrodisiacs to help, but he refused to take them, complaining about the taste.
Ama further revealed that he would often leave home at night to sleep at another woman’s place while she worked night shifts. When she returned home, he’d already be back, pretending nothing had happened. She eventually found out that he was using the aphrodisiac she bought to sleep with the other woman.
Even after moving to a new area, a friend informed her that he still visited the previous neighborhood daily. Later, someone anonymously told her he was cheating with another Ghanaian woman. She began investigating and heard similar accounts from various people. One day, she decided to catch him in the act—and she did.
She also uncovered that he had been engaging in phone sex with multiple women, including someone in Ghana. “He would even use the phone to masturbate while the other woman used a dildo,” Ama recounted, adding that if he wasn’t doing phone sex, he would watch porn and pleasure himself. Meanwhile, no matter how she dressed or tried to entice him, he showed no interest.
“I had to take on two jobs to distract myself from the pain,” she said.
Before moving to the UK, Ama had a dream that he had a child in Ghana. He denied it, but she later discovered it was true. She found out he had a child with another woman, and the child’s mother was waiting for him to return to Ghana and marry her officially.
Despite all this, Ama says they share rent, and she works as a caregiver for a dementia patient. Emotionally exhausted, she revealed, “He told me if I die thinking about him, he’ll just ship my body as cargo.”
Ama explained that they had dated back in Ghana, and he traveled to the UK before her. When she eventually joined him, she realized he had lied about many things. “I’m not good at getting men, so I gave up on dating. I told him I didn’t want children due to heartbreak, and I would adopt instead. He convinced me to change my mind, but by then, another woman was already pregnant for him.”
She painfully recalled that he only talks to her when his side chicks are unavailable. When she mentioned wanting to move out, he insulted her, claiming she was ungrateful after he brought her abroad. “Because I’m his dependent, I don’t have anywhere else to go. I didn’t pay him to bring me, but I spent a lot of my own money in the process. We have no children together. He lasts barely two minutes during sex, and sometimes he can’t even perform.”
She concluded, “This man doesn’t love me. He has phone sex with other women and begs for sex outside while ignoring me. One of the women he’s sleeping with also has a husband and three children in Ghana. We live in the same house and don’t speak for days. Sometimes, he even calls other women in front of me. I keep hoping he’ll change, but I’m breaking inside.”
Ama is now calling on her husband to be honest with her. “I just want him to tell me the truth—whether he loves me or not—so I can move on with my life. I’ve suffered in silence for too long.”