Crazy relationship stories to make you appreciate being single
BEING unattached can be difficult, despite the ‘single and independent’ rhetoric being spewed by popular artistes. It’s made even harder when everyone else around you is coupling up, worse, around special holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas, when the reality of your status hits you in the face.
But being part of a twosome is not all rainbows and butterflies, as the people below tell. In fact, these relationship horror stories may make you glad you’re Netflix and chilling all by yourself every night.
George:
I dated a girl who scammed my entire family out of close to $300,000. She wore her hair short and when I met her she told me she had cancer, and due to the chemotherapy treatment, she wore her hair very low. I grew to admire her strength and my whole family bought into it. So after about a year of dating her, when she told me she had a series of treatments coming up and couldn’t afford to pay for them, I believed and went out of my way to help her. My mother and father gave her $200,000 and my aunt and cousin gave the next almost $100,000 collectively. She even presented medical reports and prescriptions. The weekend she was scheduled to go into the hospital I remember I couldn’t get her on her phone and thought she must have already been admitted so I went to the hospital she told me she would be going to for treatment. They said no such person was scheduled or a registered patient. Still optimistic, I went home and went out with my sister to a party. Guess who I saw there?
Lillianna:
Instead of telling me he wasn’t interested and wanted it to end, he told me he was HIV positive and had me worrying out of this world. We both saw my gynaecologist and he checked our sexual history and tested us both. We both were negative.
Marvin:
She would let her friends add me on social media and WhatsApp and flirt with me, then accuse me of cheating and looking outside the relationship for fun.
Luke:
Whenever we had an argument she would cry and cry and cry until I felt bad. Once she did it until she had an asthma attack and when they medicated her she told me that she wanted me to promise her that if she died, I’d never love again. Mind you, this was my girlfriend and not my wife.
Tanya:
My ex would hit me for no reason — like me leaving water spots on the drinking glasses, or not turning the pot handles in on the stove, or missing a tile when I was wiping the floor, or not getting the seam just right when I ironed his pants. He was nothing like that when we first met or when we dated, it was only after we moved in together that he started the OCD behaviour. To the rest of the world we were the perfect couple, but at home he was quite neurotic. When he hit me hard enough to chip a tooth, I hightailed it out of there.
Patricia:
During the relationship I was abused. He was very jealous and saw me talking to a man once. When we went to the country that weekend he asked me about the man and I told him he was a childhood friend. He didn’t believe and tied me to the breadfruit tree at the back of the house and forced me to admit that I was cheating on him.
Rose:
I was with a man (now deceased) who was very promiscuous. I would often get into squabbles with women over him and put up with attitude and disrespect from these women, but I stuck with him. A few years ago before he died he found out he had cancer and that’s when he decided he wanted to marry me — when he was no more and all the things he chased after were not there.
Jeremiah:
We were together for two years, and by that time my interest started waning, because we were constantly fighting. When I suggested that we end it, she told me she was pregnant. I told her we could work it out for the baby’s sake, and for the next several months she faked the whole pregnancy game, even gaining weight. It was at around her supposed sixth month when I queried why her belly wasn’t growing, that she tearfully confessed that she had lied. So all that time she convinced me and my family that she was pregnant, and had us preparing, when she was not.
