10 Nigerian Women On The Most Ridiculous Reasons An Ex Broke Up With Them

Breakups are rarely easy, but sometimes, the reasons people give for ending relationships are so ridiculous that you have to wonder if they thought about what they were saying before opening their mouths.

In this story, 10 Nigerian women share some of the most ridiculous reasons their exes gave for ending their relationships and the things they said while doing so.

1. “I Was Too Skinny For Her” — Joyce*, 26

I met Esther* on Twitter in 2020, through a queer matchmaker. Things were great initially, but we started having issues when she wanted to see other people without giving me the same freedom. She also kept suggesting threesomes with the men she was seeing and made really mean jokes about me.

Things finally came to an end after I sent her pictures of my boobs on Snapchat on a Sunday. She got upset because I was supposed to be in church worshipping God and even posted, “Don’t be a fine girl without Jesus” on her WhatsApp status. After days of not speaking, she invited me over and said she didn’t think we should see each other anymore because I was too clingy and had gotten skinny. She said she doesn’t date skinny girls and she doesn’t want people to think I have HIV.

I was stunned, especially because the stress of our relationship was part of why I’d lost weight in the first place. I took my L and moved on.

2. “He Already Told People We Broke Up And Couldn’t Go Back To Say Otherwise” — Simi*, 24

I met him at Uni, and he was a year ahead of me. We started talking, then after a few months, he asked me to be his girlfriend. I was so in love with him that I thought we’d eventually get married. We were always together and even won Best Couple.

Things changed when we became long-distance. As I approached my final exams and started thinking about life after school, I wanted us to have a plan for seeing each other. I suggested we start saving for flights or commit to visiting at least three times a year, but the conversation got heated. I suggested we take 48 hours apart to cool off.

When I called him after the break, he said he had already told everyone we’d broken up and couldn’t go back on it to announce we were back together, even though we hadn’t discussed it.

I was shocked. I apologised, begged and cried, but he wouldn’t change his mind. I eventually moved on.

3. “He Was Tired Of Dating Me Out Of Pity” — Chelsea*, 25

We met in church, and at the time, the relationship felt like the best thing that had happened to me. We dated for a year, and I thought things were going well. I didn’t realise he wanted to break up until I saw messages between him and a friend where he said he was tired of the relationship and wanted to leave, but was only staying with me out of pity.

When I confronted him about the messages, he said he was happy it had finally come up because he had wanted to end things with me 5 months earlier, but I gaslit him into staying. I still can’t believe I was with someone who was only dating me out of pity, and still found a way to make me responsible for why he didn’t leave.

4. “He Blew His Forex Account And Lost A Lot Of Money” — Sesan*, 27

I met my ex on Instagram in 2021. We were together for about 7 months. I was still in Uni at the time, but he’d already graduated and was working.

One day, I confided in him that a lecturer had sexually assaulted me. I expected that he’d empathise with or comfort me. Instead, he just said, “It is well”, then said he wanted us to break up because he’d blown his forex account and lost a lot of money.

I was initially too stunned to respond. Then I said it was okay, charged it to the game and moved on.

5. “I Didn’t Want A Long Term Relationship” — Daisy*, 21

I’m a bisexual woman who’s more attracted to feminine women, but I started talking to a masculine-presenting woman whom I thought was really attractive. I slid into her DMs after my friend posted her picture on Snapchat, and we met in person five days later. We hit it off and started seeing each other casually. We went on sweet dates and spent many weekends together.

Things were going well until she asked that we become exclusive. I told her I had recently come out of a three-year relationship with a man and wasn’t ready to commit to another long-term relationship. She ended things, accused me of wasting her time and said, “What can I expect from a bisexual girl? At least you can now tick fucking with a stud off your book.”

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6. “He Started Dating A Muslim Woman” — Jessie, 23*

I was in an exclusive relationship with a Muslim man who had previously been married. We met in 2023 while he was on his way to a naming ceremony. We fell in love almost immediately, and it felt like we’d known each other longer than we did. After a while, I started noticing some weird things about him. He wasn’t over his ex, which is understandable considering she passed away, but he talked about her all the time. He also had wandering eyes and was quite likely to marry multiple wives because his religion allows it. I’m a Christian, so that wouldn’t have worked for me. Eventually, he broke up with me because he found a Muslim woman.

I was devastated and, in a moment of questionable judgment, begged him to sleep with me one last time. When he refused, I asked what he’d do if I turned out to be pregnant from one of our previous sexual encounters. He simply replied, “Na you sabi. Me I go marry another wife.” I wasn’t actually pregnant; I was just testing the waters to see if he’d change his mind. Eventually, I left him alone.

7. “He Said I Was Too Emotional Because I Was Mourning My Dog” — Joy*, 32

My boyfriend and I had been together for two years when my dog died. I’d had him since I was a child, so losing him hit me really hard. I became withdrawn and struggled to be present in my relationship during that period. My boyfriend, however, was unhappy that I wasn’t having sex with him because I was grieving. He eventually broke up with me, saying, “I can’t do this anymore. You’re too emotional, and it overwhelms me.”

8. “I Enforced Boundaries With My Brother” —Nnenna*, 25

I met my ex on Twitter, and we dated for a year. He was a really sweet, lovely guy, and we had so much in common. I used to talk to him about my family and what it was like growing up with them, especially my relationship with my younger brother. Our parents always pampered him and gave him everything he wanted, so he grew up feeling entitled to people’s time and attention. He didn’t understand personal space, would go through people’s things without asking and expected everyone to drop whatever they were doing whenever he needed something.

After I got a good job and started living on my own, my brother began showing up at my house unannounced because my parents felt I should take some responsibility for him. I complained to my boyfriend about it a lot, but he always insisted that family was family. Eventually, after my brother showed up unannounced again, I turned him away and made it clear that he couldn’t keep doing that. When I told my boyfriend about it, he said, “I don’t think you love your family as much as I love mine. I can’t be with someone like that,” and ended our relationship.

9. “He Didn’t Want To Cheat On Me Again” — Jasmine* 32

We met on Tinder in 2020 and dated for about a year and a half. At the beginning, he was everything I wanted in a man. He was attentive, remembered little things about me and would surprise me with them. Things started going downhill as his football career took off, and they got worse after he moved to Europe to play.

One day, he sent me a WhatsApp voice note saying he’d downloaded a dating app and started talking to two women. He said he didn’t want to cheat on me again because he knew how much it hurt, so he thought we should break up, even though he still loved me. I said okay, but spent the next two months crashing out over him. A month after we broke up, he asked if I wanted us to get back together. Then told me he already had a new girlfriend. I had to move on for the sake of my mental health.

10. “He Said I Was Becoming Wild Because Of My Feminist Views” — Oyin*, 32

I started dating my ex in 2018, and it was my first exclusive relationship. Around that time, I started questioning how society treats women and how people talk about us. I was also becoming more active on Twitter, engaging in conversations about feminism and gender inequality. I told myself that if I was going to be in a relationship with a man, he had to be progressive and able to have these conversations with me. My boyfriend and I often discussed these things, but as I became more vocal about my views, he said I was becoming wild.

One day, I was telling him about how women are an oppressed class and how much violence is perpetuated against women. Instead of engaging with what I was saying, he asked, “Is your mum oppressed?” I was taken aback because I expected him to understand where I was coming from, especially because of our previous conversations. We broke up after that.

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