Domestic Abuse Letters
Domestic Abuse can include hidden emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and physical and sexual abuse.
Domestic Abuse can include hidden emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and physical and sexual abuse.
Dear Ex-boyfriend It is long past time for you to leave me alone. Time for you to show that you respect my wishes. It is time to listen to what I am saying and honor my wishes because that is what I want. It is time to stop stalking me. To look at your behaviors in a rational way. To see ho...
To My Lover, Sorry babe for that matter that happened in front of your dad. I didn't expect that really. I just tried to show my love to you. I didn't notice your dad. I really worried after that incident was the main reason for your home arrest. Just now I know that you are allowed to come outsi...
My Love, I love you more than I've ever loved before. I feel so fortunate to have you. So when I say that sometimes I hurt wondering if I am being told by you that my understanding of our shared reality is wrong all the time, know that hurt scars me deeply. The scars are so deep and raw that I'm ...
To My Father, When I was a young child I truly believed you loved me and we shared a special father-daughter bond. As I got older I began to question the true intentions of why you ignored my sisters and openly admitted I was your favorite. You were manipulating me into thinking I was special to ...
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 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...
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...
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 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 Stepmother, I never wanted you to marry my father. He deserved so much better than you. When you came into our life, I would have done anything to keep you away from my home. Do you remember the day your car wouldn't start? I knew that you would get fired if you were late even one more time....
To An Ex-Boyfriend, Even though it has been more than a decade since we broke up, I still think about you and how awful everything turned out between us. We were very young and for a long time we were very happy and did everything together, but when I started feeling more and more like the adult ...
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...
My Dear Dad, You are the person I admire most in the world. When Mom left us at an early age, you were the one who took care of me and you were both father and mother to me. I have hurt you many times, but you have never given up your responsibility. The biggest mistake I made is my life was t...
To the Man I Love, I don't know why it is so hard for us to speak. But we have to speak. We have to fix these problems we have because if not, it will be the end of us. I know this and you know this, as sad as it may be. I love you and I always will. This is not a question of love, but of how ...
Dear First Love, I wanted to apologize, so I’m doing so now. This letter that you’ll never receive, an apology for what I did. Although I should talk to you, I won’t, because, if I hurt you, you did hurt me more. However, this is not a letter about what you did or what you did not, but about y...
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 Friend, I have to vent some of my most recent frustrations. There is a parenting philosophy that we cannot seem to achieve. Unfortunately this has resulted in conflicting punishments and disagreements all around. It is probably going to come to a head tomorrow when we meet with our psycholog...
Dear Mom, I have loved you. I have hurt you. At times I have ignored you as well. But you know, I never meant to do that knowingly. There were times when yo have loved and cared for me much more than yourself. I feel pained when I remember those moments when I had screamed and shouted at you....
Dear Daughter, I’m writing this letter to tell you that I am sorry for what I’ve done to you. I know that I hurt you. I know that you are very sad, and it’s all because of me. I am sorry for hitting you so hard yesterday. I didn’t mean to hurt you so much. I was nervous and stressed when you ...
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...
A Mon Petit Chou, Salut. J’espère que tu es heureuse. Ii vous apportera du bonheur de savoir que je suis miserable ces années sans toi, honnêtement — il a été une existence miserable. Je vois tan visage partout. Je peux sentir tes mains sur mon corps comme un fantôme. Ton odeur, aussi, Je cr...
My Dear Uncle, I have been going through this mental dilemma for a few weeks now. I have been debating if I should confess to you or let it pass. But, I just can't carry this secret any longer as it is screwing up my piece of mind. It happened while you were out of town sometime last month. I got...
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Dear friend, I am writing to you because there are a few things I have been trying to get off my chest. I hope this letter receives you well and you do not judge what I am going to tell you. When I was younger I was sexually abused by mom's boyfriend. This has been the hardest thing to express as...
To My Loving Wife, Greetings to you darling. I hope that this will find you in peace and good health. I am writing to let you know and/or answer your many questions on the experiences in Qatar back in the year 2008. On many occasions, I failed to let you know of the reasons I shifted from Qatar t...
To A Very Close Family Member, Hello, I want to share some unfortunate information with you. You were born to two aweful parents, and even worse, they are very subtle about their awfulness. I don't know your father & mother too well, but I have observed and learned of abhorrent behaviour. Let's s...
Dear sister, I have many secrets that I keep to myself. I am not proud of them. This is why I chose not to share my secrets until now. One thing I have never told you is that I used to live in Canada. I lived there for about five years. I was chasing what I thought was love. I married a man in Ca...
Dear Love, I know it has been a year since we last spoke but I still think of you every day. I think every day about how things could have been different so that we could have stayed together. I always think about the good times that we had, but then it always goes back to the time it went downhi...
My Second Husband, I've wanted to tell you this for such a long time, but the time was never right. We did al to of living, raising our kids together - yours, mind, and ours- like the movie from the 60's, and for the most part I was happy. For many years, I thought you were too, and that's why it...
To The One Who Hurt Me, You really made a fool out of me. You told me about your rough upbringing and had me believe that you had changed. I removed you from the environment you so desperately wanted to break away from and we spent a year falling in love and making beautiful memories. I don'...
Dear Mama Let me first begin by saying, "I do love you." I just prefer to love you from afar now because I need to protect my sanity and inner peace. I do not like the person I become when I am around you. Because I choose to respect you while shunning your toxic behaviors, I keep my mouth qui...
To a woman I hurt, It's been over 4 years since we last spoke. We ended our relationship with "forgiveness", but I still think about it all the time. I don't feel like you truly forgave me, nor do I feel that you ever fully understood the reasons I acted how I did. I'm not even sure I remember an...
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...
Dear Husband, I hope to divorce you as soon as possible. I am so happy that you are physically out of my life and will be even happier when you are legally out of my (and “our” son’s) life as well. I have never met anyone as manipulative as you. You blame it all on drugs but you are just a so...
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