The next morning, before going to work, she went past David’s house to demand answers. When she got there she found out that David had changed the locks. I guess he had enough of her, that’s why he acted like that. Poor Grace cried all the way to work, she was really hurting. I mean how would you feel if someone just shut you out without even saying goodbye? He could have at least said something to her, poor Grace deserved an explanation.

After a week Grace never knew what to do with her situation. She did not know whether David had been honest with her or whether she should fight for him or let him go. She said to herself, “Why did he not tell me that it’s over instead of the silent treatment? Or maybe I did or said something wrong to him and that made him angry and he decided to leave me.”

If David had been honest with her and told her that he did not want to be with her anymore, that pain be different from the one she was facing now.

As she was busy thinking about her life challenges and troubles, her friends came to her house to show her all the pictures David had been posting on social media with his new girlfriend. Grace could not believe what she saw. But that made her realise that he left her for another woman and that really broke her heart. She felt like her heart was ripped out of her chest. She spent weeks crying but that did not stop her from hurting. People usually say after crying you tend to feel a little better but to her, that did not work; instead the pain inside grew bigger every day.

She really loved David and she thought that they could have had a future together. But only to find out that David was only having fun with her and nothing more. Poor Grace. She thought it was love but it was lust and there was nothing she could do but to let go so that she can move on and be happy again.

Having to wake up every day knowing that she had lost that one person who made her feel in a way that no one ever had, made her sad. The break up was really hard for her but what hurt her the most was that David was with another woman and not her. The thought of David making another woman happy did not sit well with her. She tried so hard to fix things because she did not want to give up on that one person she loved. But nothing worked. The truth was that David never really loved her; he was just only having fun.

Grace gave her heart and soul to someone who was not even serious about her. The heartbreak was too much for her that she ended up losing body weight. But her friends were always there to support her. They tried to cheer her up so that she could forget about David. The only time she forgot about David was when she was around people but when she was alone, the memories would come back to haunt her.

Grace realised that she was not coping with the heartbreak and decided to go to a therapist just to offload. Going there really made a big difference in her life. She started accepting things as they were and made peace with the fact that David was gone and was never coming back. From this heartbreak, Grace learned that everyone who comes in your life is not guaranteed that they are going to be a part of your life forever. So, she had to move on and focus on herself.

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Tell us what you think: Have you ever experienced what Grace is going through? How did you cope with it?