I proposed to my girlfriend Becky during a family gathering. When she saw the ring, she frowned and said, “Is this all I’m worth?” I was only 21 and couldn’t afford anything more. After that moment, I never saw her again and removed her from all my social media.
Two weeks later, her father called me in tears, his voice shaking as he begged me to come see her. Before I could respond, he explained that after our breakup she had fallen into a deep depression and started seeing a man eighteen years older. Now she wanted to marry him, and he insisted I was the only one who could stop her from making such a mistake.
I hung up. I had already moved on and realized I was better off without her. Her father had always treated me as if I were beneath him, and now the situation felt like a bit of karma.