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Comfort Kaburo, a Kenyan woman, endured 25 years of an abusive marriage to protect her husband's secret.
Speaking in a Tuko Talks interview, Comfort described how she and her husband married in 2001, shortly after she had given birth to her son in 1998 from a previous relationship.
When no pregnancy followed in the years after their union, the couple visited a gynaecologist. Tests on Comfort returned normal results. When her husband was tested, doctors confirmed he could not father children.
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Rather than accept the diagnosis, her husband entered a state of furious denial. He insisted on visiting multiple doctors, all of whom reached the same conclusion.
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He eventually agreed to keep the matter private, but on a chilling condition: if Comfort ever disclosed his infertility to anyone, he would kill her. "He said that he had nothing to lose," she recalled.
His relatives, oblivious to the truth, blamed Comfort entirely.
