Jerk 5: A Reader's Story

  

 Hey guys, hope you had a great weekend, thanks for all your comments, keep them coming. so today am posting a story from a reader of the blog and its pretty emotional.

                                           THE STORY
  In school, I was one of the quite popular girls and I happened to have guys flock around me a lot. I was a size 10 and although I didn't have a body like amber rose; I was quite curvy and a lot of people described me as pretty. I was dating one of the most popular guys in school. Toye wasn't drop dead handsome but he is tall, nice smile. Fresh. You know the complete package; People actually liked us together and we actually were voted cutest couple in my department.

Sometime in my 3rd year at the university, I started to add weight. It wasn't so bad initially as every one including me felt it was as a result of the summer break I had in the UK. Suddenly suddenly, size 10 became size 12. I started to try out all them crazy diets, I starved myself and took drugs that always made me feel like throwing up and the battle with my weight made me just angry with the world. Toye started to change towards me. Although I actually irritated him; I tried working on myself but all to no avail. I constantly stuffed myself in dresses in a bid to look nice and pretty.

Eventually, I hit my all time low when I became a size 14! All hell was let loose, my friends were always laughing behind my back, even Toye "my love" continued to get angry at me for the slightest things; he wouldn't hold my hands in public not to talk of  kissing or touching me, he constantly called me fat and ugly. To add fuel to the fire, Toye constantly reminded me that if I didn't work on my weight, he would dump me.

I would cry myself to sleep every night, starve myself; I even fainted in class one day after my body couldn't deal with the depression. We went clubbing and like a fool I was there thinking I looked pretty, I even uploaded a picture of myself on FB. Toye "my love" refused to dance with me; He was cranky and rude as he kept flirting with other girls without caring how I felt. To save face, I decided to keep myself company wit my fone. Scrolling my timeline, I saw Toye's comment on my picture 'Yogi looks nice today', he wrote with a surprise smiley behind. I was hurt!

I was so embarrassed so I refused to talk to him.  I just sat by myself wishing the night would just end. Eventually, he called me to get going and said I was silly for coming if I was going to keep to myself all night. I burst in tears at that point. No apologies or words of comfort came. He simply said 'Bunmi!!! Stop all this...you are embarrassing me.' He put N3000 in my purse and advised me to call a cab home.....

Toye has a new girlfriend and of course she is skinny and pretty but I really don't care because am in a really good place now, I feel confident with my body and i also have an amazing boyfriend who loves me for who I am and not what size I am.
                                          THE END

In my opinion, this guy is definitely a jerk... the worst thing a guy can do is put you through emotional abuse. Am really happy that this reader is now in a good place and has a wonderful relationship. So what do you guys think of this story? Also just to remind you guys that you can send your stories to me via email jumokesijuwade@ymail.com and it will be published anonymously unless you decide otherwise.