At the time I met her, she was struggling to gain admission into one of the nursing training schools. It was a difficult period for her, and one of my goals as her boyfriend was to help ease that burden. And I did, with all my heart.
We stressed together. From the admission process to financial struggles and everything in between, we carried the weight side by side. Every time I felt like giving up on the relationship, I would hear a voice in my head saying, “Ebɛ fa, it is well. Be calm.” That voice stayed with me throughout the three years she trained to become a nurse.
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I was there when she graduated. I wore a gown, took pictures with her in my arms, and felt proud knowing we had made it through those difficult years together. Then, less than a month later, she broke up with me through a text message.
She told me she had met someone in Belgium who wanted to help her upgrade her life and give her a better future. I begged her to reconsider. I told her that my time would come too, that she should not despise my humble beginnings. She didn’t listen. She left.
I was left nursing a broken heart.
Just when I thought that chapter of my life was finally over, she called me recently asking for GH¢18,000. According to her, she needed the money to secure a nursing recruitment posting through what she described as “protocol.”
Before that call, a friend had already told me she was pregnant for another man.
Honestly, I became angry and confused at the same time. How does someone walk away after all the sacrifices you made for them, move on with another man, get pregnant, and still come back expecting you to carry their financial burden?
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I feel insulted. Another part of me feels used. And if I am being truthful, there are moments when the anger becomes so intense that I feel like going to her house and giving her some hot slaps.
But then I ask myself: am I overreacting?
—Issac
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