Our two-year-old relationship was hanging by a thread. Any little, shake and it would snap but we held on until the 14th of February, 2023.

He told me he didn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day and I understood him. It was my first ever relationship and I hadn’t received a Val’s Day gift from a sweetheart before but I didn’t make any fuss about it or scream, “Why don’t you celebrate Valentine? Everyone is doing it so why can’t you?”

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I kept my cool and kept it in my heart that I wouldn’t receive any gift on the day.

On Val’s Day, a female friend of mine brought bars of chocolate to class and gave me one. Out of excitement, I posted mine on my WhatsApp status and captioned it, “Thank you.”

My boyfriend called me and gave me the tone he usually gave me when he was angry. I knew something was wrong but I didn’t know what it was. He barked, “How much is a bar of chocolate that you think I can’t afford? Oh, so you posted it for me to know a guy has bought my woman a bar of chocolate?”

I was shocked because he hadn’t called me for two days. I said in my head, “You haven’t called for two days and you called today to pick up a fight because you saw chocolate on my status?” He wasn’t ready to take any explanation from me. To him, he was right. A guy bought me a chocolate and I was using it to tease his emotions.

It didn’t end there, this guy went through my phone and picked up contacts of my friends, including the one who gave me the chocolate and asked them if I was cheating on him.

“Young man, why? Why would you do such a thing? Why are you calling my friends to ask them questions?”

I thought he would say something reasonable or he would sense my anger and do something about it but he looked at me and said, “This is just the beginning. I have a lot of your contacts on my phone and I will contact all of them to know if you’re cheating on me.”

He had issues, I knew, but his actions after the chocolate brought a different dimension to who he was as a person. I told myself, “Naaa, I don’t belong here. This is not the kind of love my mama brought me here to experience. I’m out.”

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Two days later, I sent him the final message that drew the curtains down on our relationship. It was hard but it brought lessons into my life. Today, when I look back and around and see the peace in my life, I smile. Many troubles we went through didn’t break us apart but a bar of chocolate.

This year, when I bite into a bar of chocolate, I will do it slowly and savour every moment of sweetness and tell myself, “Thank you, Chocolate. You were a lot of help to me last year.”

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—Akua

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