When a Bulbul Sings by Hawaa Ayoub

Author:Hawaa Ayoub [Ayoub, Hawaa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hawaa Ayoub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Days went slowly by as months blended into each other. Eve became glum and dejected while everybody fussed about Adam returning soon, but it wouldn’t take her long to come out of the depression by viewing his home-coming as an opportunity to convince him to let her go. When Adam arrived, carrying gifts of material, gold, perfume, incense and much more, he also brought his medicine in the form of injections and tablets. Unlike Eve, he was not amused when she had read the ingredients of his medicine to find it included the extract from urine of menopausal women; it hurt him women’s pee was to cure his male problem.

“I went to a doctor after you called me, and he said my chances of impregnating are low,” said Adam “He gave me medicine which will help and I have to see a doctor in two weeks’ time to check me.”

“There’s something wrong with your water?” asked Suleiman, all the more perturbed for his progeny.

“Yes.” replied Adam. Eve sitting behind them looked up and said silently: “Praise to God!”

After having wild and rambunctious sex one night, she had the strangest gut feeling, an unsettling instinct she would become pregnant from this very night, but dismissed it as being worried, after all she’d heard it from the ‘horse’s mouth’ a doctor said he’d probably never impregnate her so there was no way what she felt in her bones could be true.

After a few weeks of being pleasant and nice while she tried convincing him to divorce her, or at least allow her to live in the city with her brothers, which all ended in vain, she stopped having sexual intercourse with him. He would say he bought her and could keep her where he wanted; his mind was closed; he did not, and would not, think about her reasons and explanations as to why she could not live here; he didn’t believe she had a right to live her life the way she wanted, or where she wanted. To him, she was something he owned and made decisions for, whether she liked what he decided or not. Adam complained to his parents and in-laws she refused to have sex with him: she had grown and become too strong in knowledge for him to overwhelm her with force without causing him embarrassment in front of the whole family: where morality wouldn’t stop him from raping her, shame from the community and worrying what other people would say about him could. Haleema and the aunts embarrassed her, lecturing her how wives should give their husbands ‘the pleasure’ and to let Adam feel that enjoyment while he was still in Yemen. Other female relatives also ‘advised’ Eve while they spent afternoons in Dhalia’s room, according to religion it was a sin not allowing your husband to have sex whenever he wanted, but still many ladies here had fortuitous headaches when husbands had upset them (No, the panacea in your stiff syringe will not alleviate the pressure, replied the wife.

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