A 53-year-old woman, Christy, wants to walk away from her marriage because her husband, Emmanuel has been unable to impregnate her after seven years

Christy accused her husband of failure to perform his conjugal rights, alleging that they sometimes made love only four times in a year. She said she was almost 46-years-old when she got married to the respondent and that she made it clear to him then that her objective was to have children.

“He has had four children from two previous marriages, but I wanted a child of my own and he promised to support me. I was still menstruating when we got married, but sometimes he chooses not to sleep with me when I am ovulating.

He travelled a lot and always gives the excuse of pressure of work. He claimed that he doesn’t know when I ovulate, yet I lived in the same room with him in the few years of our marriage. How do I begin to tell the court that sometimes we make love only four times in a year?” she said.

Christy  said she is desirous of having her own child and decided to go for assisted conception in a hospital her husband was familiar with. “Yet, he still did not give me the desired support,” she said. “I moved out of his home in 2015, by then I was over 50 years and I was not getting the support I needed, I wasn’t getting younger and my chances of conceiving was getting thinner. I want a formal dissolution of this marriage,” she pleaded with the court.