Loss Letters
Read personal stories from people who are writing about loss.
Read personal stories from people who are writing about loss.
Dear Ex Love My whole life I was concerned with being a good person land someone that my family could be proud of I grew up seeing my sister getting hurt by her boyfriends and my mom crying because of the inconsideration of my father, I honestly believed if I worked hard enough and became a docto...
To my soon-to-be ex-husband, When we stood in front of our friends and family to pledge our love to each other, I never thought this is where we would end up! But the truth is, we had problems that started not long after we started dating. From the beginning, and probably for a long time before m...
Dear Sister, I am so sorry I have left you to deal with our parents all alone. It’s not fair we have to deal with their dysfunction and drama, but it is even worse I have removed myself from it knowing you cannot. I don't know how I am supposed to balance those things. If you are angry at me, I u...
TO THE PERSON FROM MY PAST - I still think about you. I still dream about you. I do not know why. and I honestly cannot understand it is just a bit unusual for me to experience such things when I should already be over you by now. I know I am and I know we both have already moved on - We do not t...
Dear Scientist, What do you call pluto if it's not a planet anymore? If you make it a planet again all the science books will be right. Do people live on Pluto? If there are people who live there they won't exist. Why can't Plato be a planet? If it's small doesn't mean that it doesn't have to be ...
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...
My love, I never had the chance to tell you this in person, you left too early for me to express call my feelings. Since the moment I saw you when I walked into that classroom, I knew you were special. You had magic in your eyes a smile that could brighten my day and a sense of humor that could m...
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 Mom, your birthday just passed, and it was so surreal to think about it. It felt like good timing - a chance to celebrate your beautiful life just a couple months after your death... But it was also really hard. I had to be friendly & welcoming & social, and I was really struggling, I miss y...
Dear Mom, I love you! For some reason I cant think of any other way to start this letter towerted to you in all fand happiness, but somehow there is salurays an emptiness that I feel, being away from your loving embrace is difficult & inspite of vall the comfort that og cet in my new house and al...
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....
To The Baby I Never Met, I wanted to be your mother. I was so excited when the doctor told me I was pregnant. I already had two daughters and was excited to have a third baby. You were due on Mother’s Day in 2003. I counted the weeks of pregnancy, ticking off each day like one step closer...
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...
Dear lovely lady whose heart is broke, I am sorry that I broke your heart. I'm sorry that I put you through that pain and I'm sorry that I betrayed you, your trust, and our vows. That was the biggest mistake in my life and I regret it each and every day and I will for as long as I live. I did...
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 ...
To The Man I thought I'd Marry, I see you. I see you there with her, on the street outside the bar after closing, faces pressed together, oblivious to the world. I see you secretly checking your phone when you think I'm not looking and smiling to yourself. I see you lock your iPad now - that's...
To the man who broke my heart, Although I knew I could never have you to myself I truly thought you loved me back. I have never stopped thinking about you for more than a few minutes at a time, but you made it clear you stop thinking about me. I asked you time and time again "why?" And if...
Dear old friend, I still think about you from time to time. I know we had a lot of history. At some point we were best friends! Oh how time flew. I have a lot of resentment. The last time we spoke was bittersweet. And though I initially intended to remain in contact with you… Perhaps it was b...
Hey Friends, I would like to share a painful story of my life with you. I was one of the best students in my school days, I studied well and I did everything well with my schooling. But, after I entered college, I lost a lot of things, skills, my identity. One of the main incidents that change me...
To My dearest friend, I wanted to let you know how I feel. You were one of my best friends growing up. Your family was like my family and my family like yours. I was so thankful to have a friend being the only black student at the school. You never made me feel different and always made me feel n...
TO THE WOMAN I LOST, I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW WHERE MY FEELINGS FOR YOU CURRENTLY STAND. I AM STILL MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU. WHEN THINK ABOUT YOU AND HOW I ENDED UP HURTING YOU, MY HEARTACHES. WHILE I'M CURRENTLY IN A RELATIONSHIP THAT IS VERY FRUITFUL, I STILL CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU. BURDE...
Dear Honeypie, It has been four months since we ended things between us. Truth be told, I miss you. I still can't figure out how things went south between us. I was still thinking of how to plan for our wedding, sometime in August. The month of March, April, and May has never been the same, most...
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Dear Friend, Sometimes my thoughts clog my mind. Do you ever have that happen? When I can't share something in my heart, it just seems to weigh heavier on me. Two months ago was the anniversary of my brother's death. It's the first year I haven't been able to be home and spend time with my parent...
To The Woman I Cherish, My Secret, this has constantly been with me for over 28 years and has constantly been a burden to me and my soul. My soul feels out of place staring in a room full of humans. My thought always wandered home. The burden of not being understood. The burden of being misinterp...
TO MY BEST FRIEND, I REALLY HATE IT HERE. I KNOW I WAS DOING A GOOD DEED BY AGREEING TO COME HERE, AND I DON'T REGRET THAT ASPECT OF IT, AN ACT OF KINDNESS FOR SOMEONE ELSE, BUT THAT DEED IS DONE NOW. IT'S OVER, AND NOW THAT I'M ACING THE PERMANENCE Of MY LIFE NOW, THE SHEER KNOWLEDGE THAT BY COM...
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 That Got Away, You're married now and have a kid. And I'm truly happy for you, I am. Because deep down I know we wouldn't have worked. Despite having passion, despite loving each other, despite "getting each other," despite making each other laugh, there was always something missing. S...
To The Lover Who Hurt Me, It's been almost a week since we've last spoke. The last conversation we had was you telling me that you did not want a relationship with me. You told me I deserved better and that you could not give me what I was looking for. That cut me deep. How could you say this...
To An Old Love, I wish we could have met at a better time in our lives. You were about to graduate, a semester early even, and I was still just a junior in college. You're from the city and I'm from Upstate. Neither of us wanted to do a long-distance relationship, so we just left our status as...
Dear, It is almost a month since we broke up. I am so lonely, that I can barely cope. As one needs happiness so do I still need you in my heart. The whole break up wasn't my idea and up till this moment I can barely understand why you chose to end things when I was just preparing to propose t...
Dear Little Sister, I've been thinking so much about you lately. Thinking about what a terrible sister I was to you. My heart aches for all the pain I caused you. I hope that one day you will know how much I loved you and love you. When mom left us and you were just a baby, I was only six year...
To My Ex-Girlfriend, Why do you continue to call me? It has almost been 10 years since you last broke up with me. It's hard to believe really. Yet, just about every year you feel the desire to contact me. I still love you, but sometimes I wish I didn't. I don't think you realize, or understan...
To my Mom And Dad, I know you are back together again which is the only comfort I have because life is so hard without you both. All those special occasions, my wedding day, the births of my babes, they were just so difficult without you here. My children are still so young, they would have lo...
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...
Dear Ex-Girlfriend There's a lot I've wanted to say since we talked last. We didn't end on the best of terms and not on the clearest terms either. When I went to school, I was doubly confused on what to do. I said we should separate because I couldn't do long distance, but I could have. I n...
My Dear Husband, Today is the first time in my life that I am writing a letter to you. And I am surprised that I have never written to you in my life. I think. I should have done it earlier. We have been married for the last 15 years, and it was an arranged marriage. Overall it’s a good...
To My Ex-best Friend, I never thought I would be writing this letter to you. At one point in time, you were one for the closest people I had in my life. I miss you more than anything but I am stuck with the reality of learning to live without you. My birthday was last week and I didn't hear an...
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...
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