SINGAPORE – Siti’s husband, an odd-job worker 10 years her senior, did not allow her to leave the house without him – not even to do marketing.
Her husband also did not allow her to work and she was not given an allowance, though he paid for the bills at home.
Siti (not her real name), now 38, met her husband while working as a hotel receptionist in Indonesia, where he was holidaying.
They got engaged after a long-distance relationship of three months.
“I married him as he was very sincere in wanting to marry me,” she said.
However, life in Singapore in the early years had been mostly housebound for her. She stayed home to raise their four children, the oldest of whom is now 14.
“I felt he was afraid of me making new friends and I felt very alone.”
She said she did not go into marriage thinking that a Singaporean man would be her ticket to a better life, but she certainly did not expect the chagrin of having to ask him for money for even the smallest things.
“I felt like a child,” she said.
“Once I asked him for $5 to buy chilli for cooking, and he said he had no money. I was angry that he had money to buy 4D, but said he had no money to buy chilli.”
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Her husband also did not allow her to work and she was not given an allowance, though he paid for the bills at home.
Siti (not her real name), now 38, met her husband while working as a hotel receptionist in Indonesia, where he was holidaying.
They got engaged after a long-distance relationship of three months.
“I married him as he was very sincere in wanting to marry me,” she said.
However, life in Singapore in the early years had been mostly housebound for her. She stayed home to raise their four children, the oldest of whom is now 14.
“I felt he was afraid of me making new friends and I felt very alone.”
She said she did not go into marriage thinking that a Singaporean man would be her ticket to a better life, but she certainly did not expect the chagrin of having to ask him for money for even the smallest things.
“I felt like a child,” she said.
“Once I asked him for $5 to buy chilli for cooking, and he said he had no money. I was angry that he had money to buy 4D, but said he had no money to buy chilli.”
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