How would you feel when you are suddenly blacklisted and you don’t even know why. Well, I certainly felt like that. But how can you blame someone when they have no idea about the effort you’ve taken for them? When do they find your indulgence a part of your routine? When you’re being taken for granted you cannot expect to get acknowledged or even noticed, right?
To The One Who Took Me For Granted
Dear Past (insert name),
I would not say thanks for coming into my life, but every phase of life teaches you something and you are one of them. It was needed for me to let go of you for my own sanity, it was needed for us to be apart as maybe we both wanted different things from our relationship. And, it’s certainly needed for me to write this letter as our relationship, our emotions require clarity for it to break free altogether.
The important thing is what cannot be avoided should not be avoided and one of such things is heartbreak and though it is wise to be cautious, it is still going to be a foolish decision to avoid falling in love all because one doesn’t want to be hurt.
Love is a mysterious thing. You told me that love hurts. Yes, I agreed with you that love hurts, and no, I am not just agreeing to please you. It hurt really bad because I have been there but I also have a question to ask you, Is it love that hurts? Or is it loving the wrong person?
That’s what you did. You came out of nowhere.
I found you as a special person, someone who was sensitive, intelligent, and shared many common interests with you. I started to smile more, dream more. Your mere presence would brighten my day. Sometimes you become my partner in crime and sometimes listen to me when I want to let it out. Maybe that’s why you thought you were the only one who is able to break me into pieces and then again consolidate.
The one who I was sure I would be with the rest of my life.
You were my happily ever after, and I fell in love with everything about you. Everything about you attracted me, even your flaws. Life became beautiful for me, and every day I just wanted to be with you, share hope, and make plans for the future. We talked, dreamt of all that we wanted out of life together, and we realized how much we have in common.
I thought you were the one for me, but then —- the honeymoon period ends. You said ‘together’ which means ‘me and you’ but then why only you remained? Why was I left in the shadows?.
While some fairy tales end with happy endings, mine did not.
Being taken for granted, is what I can still make a peace with. But you choose to ignore the things that I have done for you, you didn’t see how I waited for your call or how my heart skipped a beat when I saw your smile. You didn’t notice how much I craved watching you happy, to listen to whatever you needed to say.
You didn’t realize I was the one who stood by your side when everyone showed their back. You were too busy to realize I was waiting for you to talk, to share with me how your day was. Didn’t see my disappointment when you didn’t acknowledge my support. When you forgot my existence.
Do you remember the time you said sorry? Do you remember the time you made plans to spend time with me? Do you remember the time you compromised your favorite for mine? You Cannot. Because there isn’t any.
There is always someone who cares deeply enough to walk any length to see you heal, but oftentimes our pains engulf us too deeply, blinding us to see or even accept the help that we need.
We walked together through it all until I came out of my shell. I was there through some of your worst days and some of your best ones. But it was never good enough. You couldn’t see the efforts I have put into this relationship, you couldn’t see my tears and you couldn’t see me drifting apart.
Read: To the one who awakened my sleeping heart, but left me alone afterward.
Instead, you destroyed me.
Yet, I believed the best in all situations. Maybe I was extremely anxious and paranoid about being abandoned by those close to them.
Do you remember how in our relationship one was the taker while the other was the supplier? I sabotaged my own necessities to adjust to your needs, while you failed to give me the slightest hope that things will change.
I desperately tried to ignore the warning signs, casually “forgetting” events, being chronically late, and putting your ‘bros’ before me. I tried to hold on to the feeling that has hooked me up in the first place. But you just introduced me to your bottom of the priority list.
I can relate to every single word in this letter
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This is not empowering imo. It is encouraging victim mentality, pity party galore. Whoever wrote that letter signed it off with a lie. Clearly, she is not the girl that used to love him, but rather a woman stuck in the past.
Agreed. … why is there talk about anyone defeating anyone?
Keely, no idea. All the time i read this letter i was wondering why she never addressed those issues while in the relationship instead of expecting him to read her mind. Words like deserving or being taken for granted equate to entitlement.
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winny hateful manipulatives bitches.. your type are incapable of love… you just want & need & destroy good mens heart with oh so many excuses and oh so few guilt..
you dont merit shit, you dont give shit, you take and take and take until the men is dry up and easier to let go..
womens like this make every good mens wanna puke. she doesnt want to love men as they are they want a princess slave who play the boyfriend ..
True!!Thnx foh such uploads it motivates people!
oh, exactly my life story with a narc.
You have just written my life
Well said.
Stupid and karma will punish him ??
When you fall, you surely rise with wisdom and worth! Let go those who is not even worth of a word !
This right here!! ??????
Its really touching n reminds me of my plight….. so sorry but can’t help when its actually one sided love, if it would have been the same with the other person it would’nt have gone awry…. but neverthless it really hurts which no one can understand unless he or she goes thru it personally.
The scar i have are the proof that i am healed and i have survived.. <3 <3
Awesome story!!!
Theresa Laybourn
Absolutely true! Written from the heart!
Why people like to feel like victims? It is miserable, powerless feeling. Accept the role you played in this story and you can get your power back. With this letter definitely not.
lol!Im done with this moments..
So deep it makes it beautiful!
This letter is so bad—soooooo co-dependent, and has to be written by someone very young and naive. First flaw is the reminiscence of the romance. She claims she is over it and she has become stronger, yet she is seeking her validation in a relationship with another person, which she hopefully wishes will spark feelings of jealousy, guilt, regret, and shame in her ex-lover. She will spurn him and then be avenged. True strength is not carrying so much baggage, acknowledging, then cutting the ties to her own unhealthy behaviors.
Wow! Amazing . Beautiful. Kudos. Huggs and love for writing such pain with such beauty. Having so much strength!
That’s sad.
why waste your time writing about THEM, don’t linger, stand still or wonder why ….just move on to better times
She is writting to herself. It is to her previous self. Her acknowledgement of growth and strength.
but still reminising about the past..you cannot move forward until you leave the past behind. yes you do become stronger as a result of a crappy relationship but don’t visit it over and over analyse the failed relationship.
life is too precious and too short
Susan Harley-McNamara,I totally agree. I would just write if I were in her shoes, dear x. Continue to live your pathetic shallow miserable life trying to manipulate others. Iam off sucker!!!!
When they walk away with no concrete reason they never see the pain in your eyes and they will NEVER understand the damage they did. It will take recovery a very long time and self respect I’m afraid even longer to recover from.
wow is all I can say and thank you could not have written this better .
I could have written it myself.
Me too!