Dear MIMsters: How Airing My Opinion On a Family Matter May Cost Me My Life

As a family member, I thought it was my place to protect my sister from an impending danger by airing my opinion about her choice of a husband. And now I cannot believe this may cost me my life.

I have this younger sister who got married a while before I got married. Her marriage was short lived but it produced a child.

Now that she is single again, she desires to resettle but this time with a much older man old enough to be our father’s age mate. Not only that, he already has two wives, so she is to be his third wife.

I want to know which sister will stand by to watch her own sister make that mistake. So, I sat her down and tried to make her understand what she is getting in to. I reported to my parents, craving their support. Little did I know that my dear sister had already got my parents on her side. My parents had immediately gave her their support and go ahead.

Somehow along the way, my sister got pregnant for this her mature boyfriend but for reasons best known to her, she aborted it. When the man heard that she has aborted the pregnancy, he took off, deserting my sister.

How this concerns me is that my family is now putting all the blame on me, telling me that I am the reason why my younger’s sister supposedly wedding to this man did not work. This is simply I did not support it. It is so serious that my family is now going extra length to harm me. That have threatened to kill me and my husband.