I ended my toxic relationship with my on and off boyfriend for the past five years around June. I cited my cousin getting married as a reason and the fact that he had dragged my youth for so long. But one of the core reasons I broke up with him was because I developed cardiomyopathy and hypertension just a month to my 30th birthday. My parents are going crazy with trying to find the reason why and it’s man who broke me literally and figuratively, broke my heart and then broke my heart again. I couldn’t tell him it was because of the hypertension I left him because I knew he would have found a way to make it all about him. This was not how I wanted to enter my 30s, alone and heartbroken. My poor mother.