My Dear Ex-Boyfriend Who Showed Me Love, My dear. I don’t know how you feel. But was this all just a game? A bet between you and your friends? Was I really yours? I’m sorry for the inappropriate things I said. I should’ve watched my tongue. I was mad at you. Mad at me. How could I fall in love so...
Dear Society…Dear Stranger Who Will Read This, I will never meet you, neither you me. We don’t know each other, that’s the one thing we know for sure. But the one thing I know is that society can influence us so much that in the end, we don’t recognize ourselves. The world is beautiful, but our s...
To My Favorite Person, I remember when we met at the museum grounds five years ago. You were there with your friend, you would never admit he was your boyfriend to me (I wonder why…), and we all had such a wonderful time exploring. I’ll never forget how beautiful you looked in your summer blouse,...
Dear Mom, I know it has been 14 years, but I'm sorry for running away from home. At the time I could only think about myself and I know the situation was really hard on you as well. I wish I had stayed and gotten to know my step-siblings, maybe we could have been friends. I thought about you a lo...
Dear Heartbreaker, When we first met you barely even made an impression on me but we talked more after that and the next time I saw you were totally different. There was an instant attraction and overall sense of comfort and safety with you that I had never before experienced with anyone else. I ...
To My Ex Who Is A Trader, You abused me more than you will admit to yourself ever. You physically accosted me multiple times and kept me down mentally. I feel like I had Stockholm syndrome, where I fell in love with the idea of who I met and couldn't bring myself to properly leave. You held my wi...
Dear Mother, This is a secret that I kept to myself for 14 years. As you may know, I was not able to graduate on stage for high school because I failed a number of classes and I attended adult school, but what you do not know is that I never finished school. I never received my GED. I have never ...
Dear Husband, What has happened to us? How did we get here? Things have changed so much between us. When we met you said you were going to marry me even when I doubted it. You were all about me at that time. You made me feel beautiful. You made me feel loved. We had beautiful children together. Y...
Dear Person I Hit With A Car, I never learned your name. I’ve always referred to you in my tellings as “that drunk guy crossing the road at 2 AM.“ I still remember the sickening thump and the shape of something, which was you, going over the hood in the misty darkness. When I realized what had ha...
DEAR FAMILY MEMBER, I LOOK AT YOU WITH AWE AND WONDER, AS ONE MIGHT LOOK AT A RABID ANIMAL WHO THROWS ITSELF AGAINST A WALL, OR A SNAKE EATING ITS OWN TAIL, OR A CHILD WHO HURTS ANIMALS. YOU ARE THE CLOSEST THING TO THE DARK, DRIED UP, TWISTED PIT OF A ROTTEN FRUIT, THAT SCARES US ALL SO MUCH, TH...
To My Dear Husband, I feel so guilty as I am writing this to you but I find it easier to express myself in writing. I plead with you not to get angry when you read this but even if you do I will understand. Remember when I came to you and told you that I wanted to start my own business? I know yo...
To My Old Partner, It’s been several years now since we stopped working together, but I still find myself thinking about you all the time. It’s funny, it’s an old movie cliché, man and women get together, they butt heads at first, but then they become close. Then one day one of them dramatically ...
To The Girl With The Happy Marriage, Hello, I just needed to tell you that your husband and I met at work. He told me he was married and would come to my office every other day. For Christmas I decided to work extra hours and so did your husband. We spent the day in my office getting to know eac...
Dear Brother, I never got the chance to tell you how I honestly felt before it became an impossibility. You hurt me by failing to take care of yourself. You were the older one who taught me most of what I know. You also taught me this negative habit. I struggle to take care of myself every day no...
To an old lady I hurt, it has been two years since our encounter and I owe you an apology. I lied to you during that time. I still remember clearly that you asked for a ride outside the store, you said your husband passed away and you were not able to drive home. I lied to you, I said I had an ap...
Dear L.H., I don’t know how to say this, but I think I like you. You’re smart, serious, kind-hearted, and sensitive. I feel so comfortable around you. I want to know everything about you there is to know. Deep down, I want to someday tell you how I feel but I’m so afraid I’ll wreck our beautiful ...
To My Male 11th grade English Teacher, I know that it’s been 31 years now since I was a student in your class, but I wanted to apologize for my behavior towards you. You were as kind as can be expected towards me, but I was too young and troubled to appreciate this back then. To refresh your memo...
Dear A.L., It’s been nine years since my freshman year of college, and there’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you. Did you ever like me, as more than a friend? Because, if I’m not mistaken #1- you used to mess with your hair, #2- you get nervous around me #3- you’d put your arm around me, #4-...
Dear Dad, I can see the pain you’re going through and sometimes I wish you didn’t live so far away so I can have “daddy hugs” on the daily again. It’s been about 10 years since you left but I still miss you all the time. I know and understand the reasons why you had to leave. You had to live your...
To a Friend I Miss, It sure has been a while since we last spoke and I know it wasn’t exactly on good terms, but I wanted to write to let you know I’ve missed you! We spent just about all of our younger years being best friends and while we’ve also had our share of bad times, there were way more ...
From Your Daughter, It has been a lifelong struggle for me to process your abuse. To excuse and explain away your behavior, “she’s my mother so she must be right…it’s the way her generation was raised…she has a mental illness.“ Now you’re approaching your senior years and I am supposed to be gent...
Dear Readers Out There, This is a letter to those who don’t understand what PTSD is. I do not wish to write in my own handwriting for fear of someone seeing it and knowing who I am. That is why I am here, to share my story without fear of someone coming after me. What is PTSD? Well, it isn’t just...
To The Girl I Met At Church, I first saw you at church one chilly Sunday. Your bright smile instantly made me forget about the bitter cold that I was just in. Your presence made me feel welcome and all warm inside. That first image I saw of you really took my breath away and made you unforgettabl...
EX LOVER, BEFORE YOU LEFT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD YOU HAD TOLD ME MULTIPLE TIMES THAT YOUR ARMS WOULD BE OPEN FOR ME WHEN I WAS READY. AND THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE I WAS GOING THROUGH SO MUCH STRESS AND ANXIETY. IT WAS MY LIGHT. IT WAS THE BIGGEST REASON I WORKED SO HARD TO ...
To My Darling Ex, It has now been four months since you completely broke my heart. Not a day goes by I don’t think of you and wonder what you’re doing and do you think of me? I just wish I knew what I did so wrong? And how you can tell me you love me in the most romantic of ways, only to turn aro...
Dear person I hurt, you may not remember me, but given the pain I may have caused, perhaps you will. I was a classmate of yours many years ago in middle school, and I remember you were a fairly unpopular person. I wasn’t popular myself, but relative to you, perhaps you may have thought I was. I s...
Dear Mom, growing up was tough for me and my sister. At the time, we could not understand what was going on. I knew that you and dad were having problems. I did not understand at the time the trauma that you were enduring while being in a violent relationship. I remember giving you a hard time fo...
To My Secret Love, It has taken me months and months to write these words to you, even anonymously. When I met you, I knew immediately that there was something very, very special about you. Many of those special things are character traits that I desire in a life partner. You are kind and warm to...
Dear Magical Woman, I don’t know if these words will ever find you, but I’ll let the Universe figure that out. It’s been a long time since we first met back in school. I remember the first time I saw you. You were the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen and that made me really shy. The most beautif...
Dear Best Friend, I’m writing this to you to express what I’ve been feeling about you and us. We’ve known each other for five years and you’ve been there for me most of the time. It’s becoming obvious I can’t deny my feelings for you. I like you. We enjoy each other's company. Sometimes I wonder,...
Dear Ex, I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing you to inform you that you have been on my mind for a while. And I want to know how you are. I cannot help but reminisce about old times and I have been thinking about you a lot as of late. You’ve been on my mind ever since you showed up at my friend...
To My Dearest Friend, I wanted to let you know that I was the one who called child protective services on you. When you asked me to dog sit for you over the Christmas holiday, I agreed and didn’t think much of it. I know that you have been feeling depressed lately and thought you could use the br...
To My Dear Mum, Greetings from the bottom of my heart. It has been so long since we last had a chat. I’ve been doing well here at college and it’s my hope that all is well at home. School has been great, I’ve made wonderful friends, let alone have learned a lot in economics. I’m writing this lett...
To The Person I Badly Wronged So Long Ago, I have been holding onto a secret for so long and it has been eating away at my conscience and overwhelming me with guilt day and night for so long. I must not confess that it was I who grabbed and got away with your backpack when you stupidly left it th...
Dear Ex-Girlfriend, not a month goes by that I don’t think about the way things ended. That day in February was bitter cold when you called me. I was in bed, hungover, and just feeling lousy about myself and life. I hated who I had become at that point. I was drinking again every day, and you wer...
To My Darling Sweetheart, I hope this finds you in good shape. I am also fine. There is something that has weighed me down for almost 5 years now. I felt I should share it with you, my love. It is a secret that I’ve kept from everyone. It was during a summer vacation five years ago. We were campi...
Dear Acquaintance, Since you moved out of town I've been thinking a lot about the past. Two things come to mind. #1 You should know the reason I broke you and your girlfriend up at the time. It was because she had cyclothymia and depression and she was suicidal and she had an abortion and it was ...
It was almost ten years ago, the same week as my 19th birthday. I'd donated blood the day before a party some classmates were having and fainted so, still feeling a little weird and weak, I'd decided not to drink at that party. I offered to DD for a friend who happily accepted. We dressed up, bec...
When I Was Very Young, I used to like girls. This started in third grade. I didn’t realize this until later though. At first, I just wanted to be good friends. So I had “best friends”. I would write letters to them telling them how awesome I thought they were. If you really think about it those l...
Dear Friend, I know it’s been a while since we’ve talked, and that is partially my fault. I know after we broke up I lashed out at you and I feel guilty and ashamed about the behavior. I was just so very much in love with you and I was planning my future around you. I never told you or anyone els...
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