In the beginning, Yaw would call me twelve times a day. That was the level of our addiction. Some days, he would stay on the line just to listen to the sound of our breathing. That was enough; it was a type of love language that satisfied us both. On other days, we talked about family and how many kids we wanted. We even named them and imagined what our life together would look like.

He asked me to get pregnant for him. He argued that we were not getting any younger and that we were ready. It was true that he was forty-five and I was twenty-nine. He had the means to provide for us because of his work in security. I did not doubt that he could provide, but I wondered if he was going to be a great father.

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Everything changed after we started having sex. He flipped the coin and revealed sides of himself I never expected from a man who claimed to be in love.

Suddenly, I was the one begging him for a conversation. When I complained, he would simply say, “It is work. I am busy.”

He started telling me that I did not talk any sense or would mock me by saying it was my first time being logical.

When he spoke, I had to stay quiet; if I didn’t, he would use unpleasant words. Some days, when I asked if I could visit, he would respond with a cold, “If you want to.” It felt like an insult, but I went anyway. That day especially, I thought we had a good time, only to wake up and see his WhatsApp status: “She’s cute, she’s cute, but she has no sense.”

I was hurt. I reread every word of that post, searching for a reason to stay, but the truth was right in front of me. He was talking about me; he had said it so many times before. “Do you even have sense?” Seeing it there was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I packed my things and left.

God knows I tried my best. God knows that for a man his age, he was only playing games and I became his victim. I am still in the middle of this heartbreak. It is weighing on me heavily, but I am leaving the rest to faith and fate.

We are finished, but memories of the last time we were together play on a loop in my head. I am terrified that I might be pregnant right now. I have not taken a test yet because I am too scared to walk into a pharmacy to buy one. I really do not want to be pregnant. This cannot be how my story ends. I want no more ties with him.

—Davida

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