A man with all two legs amputated has opened up on how he managed to keep it secret from his lover for two years of dating until after the exchange of vows on their wedding day to disclose it to her.
Ndayisenga Jean De Dieu and Debora met each other in 2018 and became friends before agreeing to be lovers.
During their courtship, they both respected the prior agreement not to have sex before marriage, so the lady did not have the opportunity to discover that the man she intended to marry is an amputee.
Fearing that he might lose Debora if he revealed the secret to her during their relationship, Ndayisenga kept it away from her during the two-year courtship.
They organized their wedding early this year and invited friends and family to celebrate with them but the lady was still ignorant of her groom’s physical status throughout the knot-tying ceremony.
It was only after they got home from the wedding venue that Ndayisenga surprised Debora with the truth.
Interestingly, while other women would have got angry and walked out of the hours-old marriage, she accepted to remain his wife regardless.
“After showing me who he was, it gave me a million reasons to love him more,” Debora said in an interview with Afrimax English.
The couple has since been living peacefully and loving each other as Debora has vowed to make her husband feel loved and get over the bullying he has suffered for years.
Recounting how he lost his legs, Ndayisenga said he and his entire family had fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo following a war that erupted and rendered their country unsafe.
However, on their return home, they were caught up in a bomb blast that left him severely injured. The then seven-year-old boy only woke up to realise that he was at the hospital with one of his legs cut off.