The death of our grandmother didn't only shake our entire family house but also weaken most of us, especially we – the women.

It came so sudden, you know, and one painful thing was that she dreamed to see her great grandchildren from me and Ya Hamid but it never happened.

And that made me viewed both Ya Hamid and I as failures, in fact it took me days to finally return back to my senses. I was actually losing it before.

After a week in our family house, we were asked to return back home. Safiya however was told to stay since she was yet to recover from the...