Love, Lies and Loss

Something funny happened a few days ago to one of my neighbours and it is a good definition of the saying "you don't know the value of what you have until you lose it"

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A couple of days ago, I had gone outside to sit like I always do almost every evening, when I was joined by my neighbour who had a long face, apparently his girlfriend had broken up with him earlier that day.

When I asked him what happened, he was a bit stingy with the details but from the little things he said to me, I got to understand that his girlfriend's sister, who also happens to be his next door neighbour, has been telling her everything that happens when she's not at home.

And some of those things weren't exactly good stuff because the guy isn't a faithful boyfriend. But what made this whole thing funny to me is because up till that day, he always behaved like someone who didn't care about the fact that his girlfriend's sister was next door, or that he was cheating on her.

Whenever we tried telling him that what he was doing wasn't right, he would always tell us that he didn't care and if she wanted to leave, then she could leave. So imagine my surprise when I saw him in that condition, looking like someone really close to him had died and he was mourning.

It turned out that the reason she was putting up with all of his nonsense and wasn't reacting to any information her sister was giving to her was because she was staying with her boyfriend and knew that breaking up with him would mean her moving out. So she had waited until she got a place for herself to break up with him.

He also found out that there was someone else at her place of work that constantly have been trying to go out with her, someone she constantly has been saying no to until recently when she finally agreed to go out on just one date with him. On that date, the dude had gifted her a smartphone because the one she had was damaged.

Anyways, fast forward to the next day and it turned out the situation had gotten worse. It turned out my neighbor had refused to eat anything (he claimed not to have an appetite) because he felt he had lost her to someone else, especially due to the fact that she had accepted the phone gift from the guy.

Things got so bad that after about five days of her breaking up with him, we all had to beg her sister's boyfriend, to help talk to his girlfriend, so that she could talk to her sister, and hopefully help get things back to normal. I apologise if that was a bit confusing but my neighbour's girlfriend finally agreed to come for a talk and after he was done apologising and promising her the world, she agreed to forgive him and went back to him. She also returned the phone gift back to the other guy.

After all of that happened, he hasn't been able to stop telling everyone how much he loves his girlfriend and all that. It's almost as if the breakup opened up his eyes and made him realize what he had all along and what he had almost missed out on.

It's been three days since they got back together and they both have been lovey dovey since.