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May 17th , 2024

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LETTER TO MY EX EP. 1

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You Can’t Lie Your Way Into A Woman’s Heart


Hi Ralph,

When Andy, my colleague at work, privy me that you simply had expressed interest in me, i used to be a touch stunned. I questioned however a patient coming back for a suture at the hospital would show interest in a nurse performing her duties. tho' these happenings aren't so uncommon within the health sector, I ne'er planned i'd be a victim. However, I wasn’t such a lot enthused regarding your wanting us to urge shut therefore we have a tendency to take ensuing step towards wedding.

My instinct told me otherwise. I simply felt one thing wasn’t right concerning you the very moment we have a tendency to had our 1st conversation.

Not too long, I noticed  your greed. You began questioning my activities; “where have you ever been and why haven’t you been in touch?” You knew the character of my job and the way exigent it may well be typically however you turned a blind eye to any or all that. it had been intentional after I asked you, “Why did you end your last relationship?” I wished to understand if it had any bearings to however you were treating me. You said, “I caught her cheating with a man who was my junior in school.”

The next day, in one amongst our conversations, you gave another version of the story of your breakup with your ex. You said, “She cheated on me with an commendable proficient performing artist in our church.”  I didn’t question you on the contrary data you had given me because I knew that you just couldn’t be trustworthy  and you had too many various things to mention at a time.

One day you’ll say, “I had a chance to travel outside the country once a woman friend on Facebook invited me to Turkey.” ensuing time the story would be different; “A travel and tour agency was organizing a visit and that i took advantage of that to travel.”  Hmmm, Ralph, you could lie! who were you making an attempt to impress, Me? I didn’t would like these need yes to you? you may have simply been yourself. however i need to admit, I enjoyed your denigrative speeches tho'. I invariably had one thing to giggle and laugh regarding whenever i used to be alone.How am i able to even forget your frequent harangue regarding your Uncle whom you aforesaid is a Minister in government and all the places you had traveled to? i'm still making an attempt to be convinced if so they were even true. You speak an excessive amount of that typically you even lose track of the things you say.

Your incessant queries and nags indeed were irritating however i attempted to contain them and invariably controlled myself to retort maturely to them. Then again, your eager to get my full attention whenever you glided by the hospital. I couldn’t risk the lives of patients simply to flirt around with you? Ralph, you were terribly peremptory! “If you may be this bossy throughout the campaign period, what will you become if you finally win the election?” I typically asked myself.

I decided to not visit you at once even if my work was nearer to your house. I had enough reason to try and do that as a result of I noticed  you retreating at once I aforesaid no sex. i'm not a virgin however sex means that a great deal to me and that i required to try and do that with the proper person. Not somebody i used to be not even positive if it absolutely was about to work. Moreover, you lived together with your family and that i couldn’t simply be visiting as and once I wished to? I had to psyche myself up knowing I wasn’t simply coming back to fulfill you however are going to be encountering different members of your family.Though it wasn’t obvious, i used to be being forced into one thing I wasn’t positive however, I felt inside me that you just needed me to fall dotty with you inside the shortest potential time. however I couldn’t penalise myself like that? give thanks God it didn’t take long on behalf of me to be convinced I couldn’t have a future with you.

Then finally, I expressed my tolerance. That day, so I wasn’t spared of your anger and insults. You created me savvy rigid and unloving i used to be. “You’ve left a decent man,” you aforesaid however I give thanks God for taking me out of this mussy relationship. One factor you did not understand, I had positioned myself per se due to the type of man i used to be dealing with: You!

I had to be rigid and firm on my boundaries as a result of your behavior was terribly questionable. Promising me wedding isn't a yardstick for me to be everywhere you and to ignore all the red flags. wedding may be a necessity however undoubtedly, my happiness was predominate.We may have given it a strive. however everything turned around you. taking note of you became boring and you did not listen even after I self-addressed them – mister. I’m-Always-Right.

I sit nowadays and tell myself that you’ve lost an incredible woman. You called me a slay queen because I had double-pierced my ear lobe. You had forgotten the knowledge within the locution that a book mustn't be judged by its cover. it had been simply one thing I admired to try and do and it had nothing to do with my character. Anyway, you saw those piercings before you wanted a relationship therefore wherever from the abrupt complaints?

My very little recommendation to you as I pen this letter is that learn to nada your mouth! Not each woman has to be affected. a number of us are looking for the man in you. a person who understands that wedding is concerns working along as a team. One who is mature altogether sides and speaks showing intelligence.

You were a braggart and a prevaricator. I even have been through plenty at calling early stage and couldn’t entertain any unyielding behavior from you therefore my job off of the link which barely took off.

-BRIDGET
Ghana 🇬🇭

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