Abandonment Letters
Read personal stories from people who are writing about abandonment.
Read personal stories from people who are writing about abandonment.
To my former best friend, You slept with my fiancé. You looked me in the eye every day for years like nothing happened. You smiled in my face for years like nothing happened. Then you had the nerve to make yourself the victim in the situation. You gaslit me. Had the nerve to say that I needed ...
To My Love, Now A Stranger, I miss you so much. I miss being with you. I miss us. Now it’s just a memory. I ask myself why? How could you move on and I’m still holding on? It’s been 2 months now. Why am I still in pain losing you? You left me without enough explanation. I thought we connected ...
Dear Soon-to-be Ex Husband, A month of separation gave me more clarity than I anticipated, and next week I am filing papers to end the rollercoaster ride I’ve been on with you for 15 years. The space highlighted how there is not room in this relationship for me, your ego and your desperate nee...
Dear Son, I wanted to tell you the reason that I was away from you for so many years. Maybe now that you're an adult you'd be able to understand my reasons. I made horrible choices that ultimately cost me everyone and everything I had in life my most importantly you and your sister. I was drinkin...
Dear Dad, There’s so much that I want to say, but I don’t know where to start. I’m sure you have been wondering why I have been so distant the last several months and I have been wanting to reach out and tell you, but I’ve never really known how. You see ever since you have mended your relationsh...
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I'm easy to score, you don't need to say you love me for me to say that I'm yours. I'm kinda cheesy, I'll write you a poem that's way too long to read so I send it in sections. I'm kinda crazy, I want to know more about you, so I write 40 questions to ask you when you spend time with me. You don'...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Dear Best Friend, I have wanted to bring up an issue with our friendship for some time now. The issues stem from the way you seem to have abandoned our friendship for your new girlfriend. We used to hang out at least once a week but we have not seen each other all summer despite us both working f...
To The Man Who Hurt Me, You were supposed to be someone I could trust and rely on. Someone who provided nurturing love, someone I could run to when I needed help. For quite some did trust you. I gave you love and my and time. While I begged to be in your life, you were busy fading from mine. I...
Dear you, I don't think you know how much you hurt me. But even more, I don't think you care. I have spent months trying to wrap my mind around everything that has happened. How could you just leave like that? And expect me to be okay with it? Did you ever stop for a second to think that sendi...
Dear Dad, I have always wondered - why did you leave mom when she got pregnant? At first, I thought maybe we both weren't enough for you or that the thought of us and a family just didn't make you happy. Growing up I have always needed someone by my side and neither you nor mom were there. I k...
Dear Past Lover, I didn't know what I was missing in my life until I met you. You taught me how to love, how amazing life was, and how beautiful I was, though I didn't know. The day I met you was a really good one. You came to me, speaking a language I didn't talk at all, making my cheeks red...
Dear D, I can not even begin to tell you how much I wish you were here. I can't count the times I have wanted to ask you something or tell you something or complain all about our crazy family. Then I realize you're gone. Then I get mad. Mad at you for doing all the stuff you did. I get mad at you...
To the man who stole my heart then broke it, Do you have any idea how much you have hurt me? Even now, years later I find myself still thinking of your day and night. I hate that you haunt my every waking moment as well as my dreams, you were perfect in my eyes, you became Unforgettable to me, Ev...
Dear Dad, I'm still angry with you. I'm angry at you for being so involved in my life and then dropping me. I'm angry at you for what you did to my mom, and to our family- I'm angry at you for devoting more of your attention to your phone, ipad, laptop, and tv than to your family. I'm angry that ...
Dad, Over the years I never felt that I was good enough for you, it seemed like everyone was more important. All I ever wanted was your love and for the longest time I tried to get your attention. But finally gave up when you choose not to come to my college graduations. I knew then I could never...
Dear Co-worker, I am writing to you to express how I feel about your rudeness. I was so excited to start a new job especially since my mom walked out on us and I was going to be the sole provider for my family. This job is the highest paying job I have ever had which was so important to my family...
Dear Friend, I have always known that you were very independent with our relationship. Since Seventh grade you would go through phases of aloofness or complete absence from my life. When you started dating that tattoo artist, the periods of absence became longer and longer. When you finally ...
Dear Papa, I wish that things could be different between us, wish that they could go back to the way that they were- we were close and enjoyed each other’s company, I told you everything & you taught me most of what I knew & believed to be true. Nowadays, we are no longer father and daughter...
To My In-Laws: I know I do not have the power to influence you, as your minds already seem made up & Your hearts are cold. The only sin I have committed against you is not being a Jehovah’s witness, as you are. It breaks my heart, as well as equally angers me, that not only do you not have a...
Dear Former Best Friend The first time you gave me up for no reason was painful and confusing. We have so much history. You had my friend in seventh grade ask me if I would be your girlfriend, and I told her to tell you yes. After two weeks we realized we made better friends, and throughout ...
DEAR LOVELY PERSON, MEETING YOU HAS BEEN AN EXCITING TIME IN MY LIFE. I WAS LOST IN WHAT LOVE WAS. I WAS SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO ALTHOUGH I ALREADY HAD A CONNECTION WITH, WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAVE. THE BEGINNING WAS LIKE I WAS ON CLOUD NINE, FLOATING IN HEARTS AND SUGAR. WE LAUGHED, T...
Dear Mama, Hi! I love you. I just want to start this letter off by saying that I love and miss you and the family so dearly! I knew that I was taking a huge risk moving across the country for love, and that I would be abandoning my sense of community and security in doing so, but I didn't thi...
Dear cheating husband, I am not sure why I still love you and like you so much. I am writing this letter to tell you that I am leaving you. This is all because of you and you know the reason very well. We have been married for 6 years now. First and foremost, you interfered with my work and s...
Dear Mom, Thank you for the time we had. It allowed me to get the closure I needed and to understand why you and Tom had two kids you didn't want. My sister will never be a functioning person and you should feel deep shame for not protecting her from her abusive husband and poor children will nev...
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