Sexual assault can be really difficult to talk about, but talking about it may be just what we need to begin healing.
Dear Potential Life Partner, After I graduated college, back in 1996, I would go down to Manhattan twice a month by taking the train from the suburbs. I would go to a gay bar. I was somewhat depressed at the time being that I just finished college, and I didn't know what my place in the world wou...
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 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...
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...
To My Dearest Friend, The past four years have been very difficult for me. I have never been particularly political, but that was because I never really had a specific issue I felt would matter. I thought my view as an individual citizen was just too small to be noticed. But this time, there were...
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 ...
XYZ Location XYZ City Dear Friend, I hope you are doing well and also living happily with your family. I am also fine. I want to share my personal feelings with you, as you are my only close friend. Last night I was walking at a nearby road and saw some of the bad reputation guys trying to ...
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 Person who Hurt Me, I don't know who you are and I suppose I will never know. I know you may not know how much You've changed my life and you may not even care. But I do! I'm the one who has to live with what you did! I was only a baby and you felt the need to put your disgusting hands on...
To whom it may concern: Why did you do all of that stuff to me when I was younger? It changed me, both mentally and physically. I know I did not show it. As I was a Silent child. But you stole my childhood away, I sometimes wonder what I would have done and accomplished if you would have left me ...
Hey...A man's anger and a woman's love is immeasurable. It took some time for me to realize that I really hurt you and I can understand, by my heart, its extent. Even at that haunted time I failed to recognize tears at the corner of your eyes, that was bursting due to my behaviour at that time. I...
Dear First, I am so happy that you are gone, I've moved on, and have a beautiful relationship with the man of my dreams. But somehow, I'm still burdend with the question, "Why "? We were together for 3 horrible gears, and get I know I nevermet the real you, why, were you take? Why did you trick m...
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...
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...
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...
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