She has a dark screen protector on her phone so no one can view her screen from any other angle. She told me it’s called a privacy protector. It wards off unwanted eyes. On WhatsApp, you never see her online, but she responds to messages instantly. She has hidden her online status.

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Not only that, but her “last seen” is also invisible to anyone. On top of that, her blue tick is turned off. She watches your status, and you wouldn’t know she’s seen it. Her photo app is locked. Her WhatsApp and Messages apps are hidden from her app list. If you had her phone, the only app you could use would be the web browser. Everything is locked.

I had my reservations at the beginning of our relationship, but I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt. For a lady to be this security-conscious, it meant she might have gone through an experience so bad that she had to protect herself and her digital footprint by all means.

One day, she came to visit, and I had to buy something from the shop, so I left her in the house and went out. While I was out, I tried calling her to take something out of the fridge to defrost. I called her several times, but her phone was off. “Ah, what’s going on?”

When I got home, she was watching a movie. I told her, “I’ve been calling you. What’s wrong with your phone?”

Her phone was on flight mode. She told me it might have happened accidentally. I didn’t make a fuss about it. From that day on, anytime she came over, I tried calling her phone to see if it would go through. Ten out of ten times, the phone was off.

So the question is, what is this girl running from? Does she work for the CIA, or is she a secret agent investigating me? She’s with me but in ghost mode. The relationship was only two months old, but I’ve walked away. Oh no, I can’t deal with that level of insecurity. I’ve left the relationship. She asked for a reason, and all I said was, “I want to be in love with a normal human being. Someone who actually exists.”

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She said I didn’t love her from the start and that I was petty, but I don’t mind. I can’t even catch her if I suspect her of cheating or doing something wrong. What’s that about? Oh, I’ve left. She should go and date her mate—someone with the same level of security on their phone—and see if she will enjoy it.

—Nana Yaw

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