A Kenyan woman has shared a painful account of how her 25-year marriage ended after her husband allegedly sent her away when she reached menopause.
Comfort Kaburo says she endured years of mistreatment while protecting a secret about her husband's inability to father children.
Speaking during an interview with TUKO Talks, Comfort explained that she married her husband in 2001. At the time, she already had a son from an earlier relationship.
When the couple failed to have a child together, they decided to seek medical help. According to Comfort, doctors found nothing wrong with her fertility. However, tests showed that her husband could not father children.
She claims her husband refused to accept the results and visited several doctors, who reportedly gave him similar findings.
He later asked her to keep the matter private and allegedly threatened her if she ever revealed the truth.
Things became difficult when his relatives started accusing Comfort of being barren. She says her husband joined them in insulting her instead of defending her.
Over the years, she also endured physical abuse, alcohol-related problems and repeated expulsions from their home. She further claimed that her husband brought several women into their marriage, saying he wanted to test whether they could give him children.
The situation reportedly reached its breaking point in August 2026 when her husband arrived with another woman and her two children. Comfort says he introduced them as his new family and ordered her to leave.
She alleges that he had waited until she reached menopause so that people would believe the children belonged to him.
Today, Comfort lives with her disabled brother in her late mother's house. She depends partly on her son's irregular motorcycle repair earnings.
Despite everything she has experienced, she hopes to rebuild her life. She also advises women facing similar situations not to remain in marriages where they are constantly mistreated.
Her story has reopened conversations about infertility stigma, domestic abuse and the suffering some women endure to protect family secrets.
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By Suzzy Owiti
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