I Tried, But I Couldn’t Love My Ex – Here’s My Story

Lessons of letting go, guilt, grief, and my ultimate freedom

Adaeze Sherleen Ilo
Fearless She Wrote
Published in
7 min readAug 18, 2021

--

I had thought about it for days, giving clues with my body language rather than my words of what was to come; A sigh here, a weary look there, a fake smile, a downcast glance, and it got his attention. I mumbled sentences and made them vague when he asked me what was wrong…

--

--

Adaeze Sherleen Ilo
Fearless She Wrote

Adaeze is a social worker in training who recently embraced her writing super powers. Now she writes to make up for lost time.