So yeah, she fell in love again. She loved, trusted and gave her all to the guy. When they first met, Elton told Grace that he had only one child, a boy. Grace believed him. She felt so special that Elton was sharing a lot with her but little did she not know that there was more to what he was telling her.

Truth is that Elton had three children with different women. Let me just say two because the third woman was still pregnant and she had only four months to go. Elton broke up with the mother of his first child and met the second woman, they also had a child and broke up too. But he never told poor Grace all of that, simply because he was not serious about her. Even now I don’t understand why Grace attracted all those kinds of men.

Their relationship was really confusing. Elton never wanted to be seen in public with Grace. He never took her out to have lunch or have a picnic at the park. The only time he wanted to see her was when he wanted to be intimate with her. They only met at his place because he was staying alone, his pregnant woman had gone back to stay with her family for a while until she could give birth.

Elton spent that four months playing with Grace’s feelings. He would spend two weeks not talking to her and call her whenever he felt like having sex with her. He was abusing her emotionally and spiritually but Grace was too in love to see that. She kept telling herself that patience brings success, that’s why she did not want to give up on him. She really thought that she could keep him but she was wrong.

After Elton’s woman had given birth, he started giving Grace excuses why he could not see her because his woman was now living with him. He stopped calling and texting her. But then Grace kept quiet and told herself that he would come back like he used to but unfortunately she was wrong. Elton was with her because his woman was pregnant.

But one day after Elton had spent three weeks not talking to Grace, he decided to send her a text message.

Hi Grace. I am sorry that I have been quiet, I did not know how to tell you this, knowing it will hurt you very much. I am sorry to let you know that I have my own woman that I love and even have a new born baby with. The only reason I was with you was because I was bored and I wanted to have some fun. I did not realise that you could end up falling for me. I can’t leave the mother of my child for you, I am really sorry. I hope you will find someone who will marry you and love you. All the best and again, I am sorry for everything.

That is the message he sent to poor Grace.

After receiving the message she did not know what to say or even do, she was speechless. She could not believe what she read. Again another man had played her. That heartbreak took her memory back to what she went through. She started asking herself, “Why me? Why can’t God give me one person who’ll love and respect me? What have I done to be treated like this? Or maybe I deserve to be alone without with a man? I am just tired of getting hurt every time I give my heart to someone else. This was my last relationship, I am done with men.”

And that was when Grace decided to stay single for the rest of her living days. The heartbreaks ruined her life; she would never be able to love again.

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Tell us what you think: Would you close yourself off to love if you were unlucky in love like Grace? Why or why not?