Apparently things were much better between Alfred and his wife, as he wrote on March 3 to his daughter, with whom he was at odds again.
A good month later, the fairy tale is over and he has put Wilhelmina at the door. In the meantime, he has put his house in the Charlottalei in Hemiksem up for sale, for which he authorizes Mr. Muyshondt from Hingene to conclude the sale. Half of the price will go to his wife after deduction of taxes and remaining debts for social security and other things from AJEKO. To the latter Alfred tells his story about his wife's jealousy. It all started in 1942 when they built AJEKO in the Bosstraat. As you can see in the publicity film, a lot of women worked in the production for fixing the glass eye, making dents in Christmas balls, simple paintings, etcetera. Somehow Wilhelmina saw a threat in those women and feared she would be abandoned, trauma she might have suffered when she became an orphan. It escalated more and more, lies and gossip were told and Alfred just went crazy. He kept writing about it until his death. In fact, Wilhelmina was his wife for life, but her jealousy just made that impossible. After this some pieces from Alfred's letters to Mr. Muyshondt.
Later that year on the 27th and 28th of November his wife is suddenly at the door to pick up her clothes and personal belongings with the local gendarmerie. In his story to Muyshondt he describes what we would call a 'soap opera' today. He was almost prepared to reconcile with her but because of her tirade full of accusations he made a final decision and put an end to it. Alfred writes 2 more letters to her in December, one of which a fragment you'll find hereafter.
It started as a fairy tale, there was work and then the jealousy crept into the relationship and ended in a nightmare both human and financial.