Trauma Letters

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Latest Trauma Letters

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...

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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...

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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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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...

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To The Guy That Made Me Want More, I most likely will never, ever see you again unless your acting goes really well. We'll never talk again, we'll never hang out, joke, or take long drives at night. I feel some regret with all that, but at the same time, I don't. You were cool and we had a lo...

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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'...

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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...

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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...

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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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