Are parents killing marriage institution?

Is it worth trying [Photo: Courtesy]

Timo had been married for five years before his wife woke up one morning and left with the couple’s two children. The two had been together from their days in campus, where they met but of late they had been going through a rough patch after Timo lost his job as a contractor for a county government department in central Kenya.

“We were always quarrelling because she felt I was not putting enough effort while in truth, I was just not lucky to have gotten another job offer,” says Timo, who has now accepted that the marriage is over. She left one morning and I later came to realise that it was her mother who had encouraged her to leave,” he adds after revealing that he came across text messages between the two.