Please Tell Me Your Candid Opinion

my dear people, help me with this one please.
late last month, i fell seriously sick. my girlfriend was more than caring during that period. in fact she nursed me to good health. now, this girl of mine had a guy whom she was dating before she met me. in fact, she worshipped this guy. but then, i liked her and was willing to take my chances. i showered her with 'more than enough love than she could handle' to the point that we started considering getting married at the end of the year.

but as our relationship progressed, i noticed that my girl was still attached to the other guy. talk about rekindling a dying fire. my girl started blowing hot and cold. today she will tell me that she has made up her mind to be with me, tomorrow it is the other guy she will choose. the thing got me so emotionally bruised, but i still hung on because i loved her and good things don't come cheap.

it got to a point that my girl told me to my face that if she did not marry the other guy, it would seem she had a divorce. that was a red light for me. i decided to back out of the relationship, though i did not tell her. later that night, she sent me an sms, saying that she cannot do without me and that we should go on. i knew i had to call her for a serious talk.

she cried and lamented that she was at a cross road and that she does not know whom to choose. by now, this guy had started placing tabs on my girl and i. he stalked our every move and told my girl all he had gathered. i felt that my girl needed all the encouragement in this moment of choice. i tried to be as caring as possible.

then i decided to  dig up some info about 'my rival' and my discoveries could stun even a stallion. suffice me to say that my girl had been living on illusions and empty promises about the guy she so adored. i felt like telling her this, but i refrained from doing so.

my elder cousin also knew the other guy and tried to talk some sense to my girl. she (my cousin) told  her  the truth about  the other guy and my girl was  devastated. my girl even attested to some facts that my cousin revealed to her. there and then, my girl told me that she had made up her mind to be with me. she said she never knew she had been living in dreamsland with the guy all the while.

so, i was just recovering from my illness when my girl told me point blank that she felt we needed space. she said that she was tired of relationships and needed her space. i was shocked. though i tried hard to convince her, her mind was made up. i decided to let her be.

surviving without her seemed so difficult. the days were lonely as i missed her even more. she stopped calling  me and visiting. i braced myself for the reality of the fact that we might not date anymore.

then 2 days ago, she started calling me to find out how i was. i felt she wanted us to be together again, but i was mistaken. she told me point blank that she wanted to be left alone. she further said that she wants us to go our separate ways as she could not continue with the relationship any longer. so, i told her that she should have told me that all the while instead of  changing her attitude towards me  for the worse. i told her if ending the relationship was what she wanted, then fine - there was no us anymore.

friends, did i do the right thing? i blame myself for allowing my cousin tell her all those things about her other guy maybe we would have still been together. or what do you think? responses please.

sorry for the lengthy piece. i hope you could make sense out of it. i had no time to edit it before posting.

yeah i think you did the right thing, i don't see why she would be playing you like that, its not fair, sorry u got ur heart broken but you gotta move on