Women are complicated.

idk if women are complicated or men are naive.I knew this woman from work we used to work in the same office and were pretty close to each other taking things toward marriage. She was a gem. When I say "was" clearly we aren't together anymore unfortunately. She left me just before Valentine's Day.

Things went wrong when my mom asked me to leave for Peshawar, where my sick grandmother needed me. She used to live in America with her children but then decided to return and got sick. She's a heart patient so she needs someone to take her to the hospital and manage outside chores. However her daughter in law my mami jee and my aunt khala were there for hospitality but couldn't take care of hospital affairs and rearrange medical files. I didn't express my availability right away and asked for some time.

The next day at work, I discussed this matter with my girlfriend, and unexpectedly, she showed a lot of confidence and trust, asking me to leave without any hesitation. She said she would wait until I was back, and we could move things forward from there as decided. I did as she suggested and went back to Peshawar.

We used to talk every day. As time passed, she stopped giving me time and complained all the time about little things. We, who never used to fight, started arguing about small issues, and one day, after many attempts, she answered my call and said she wanted to end our relationship; things weren't working for her, and she wanted to move on. I advised her not to end things with me, assuring her I was coming back to Lahore, and things would be the same as they used to be, but she said no very enthusiastically, with no hint of wanting me to stay. So I didn't stop her. It felt like she'd already moved on and was just informing me now.

A few days ago she uploaded a story with one of the guys in our office who used to call her "bhabi" in my presence and those lines idk where I heard them but struck my mind: "Larki jab hath churha kar jana chahe, tou iska matlab yeh nahi ke wo jana chahti hai; balki iska matlab yeh hota hai ke wo ja chuki hoti hai."Even before coming to Peshawar I gifted her a huge teddy bear. She kept it and didn't inform me that she was ending things with me

May Allah heal all the broken hearts.