Dear Ex,

You’ve destroyed my self-confidence and have made me everything I had never hoped for my future self to be. You’ve given me trust issues and made me feel unlovable. You’ve made me too attached and too distant at the same time. That’s right, I act clingy but the second that I feel like someone starts to act like they don’t care about me (not texting me for four hours), I walk away. You have turned me into what feels like a psychopath. I have literally told guys who have made it apparent that they don’t want to see me anymore “To just tell me because I’m the type of person that has a lot of hope, and it has to be completely crushed before I can stop thinking about it”.

Do you know how pathetic that is? Do you know how lame it is to be hung up on a guy just because they treated you the way you were supposed to be treated for just a couple of days? Do you even know what it feels like to be pathetic?

Well obviously you don’t, but you are and you should be publicly made aware of it.

I look into the mirror, and I love what I see; I love me. But, when I start talking to guys, issues start to arise because I have too many trust issues. It’s a problem for me to think that you can have everything you want, but all I can have is rejection because I’m damaged goods.

So, screw you.

This year I’m working on a new me. I’m going to work on these issues just so I can laugh in your face. I’m going to be a hundred times better than you and make you regret EVERYTHING you’ve done to me. I’m going to open up to people about my problems because you made me feel like people would think I’m insane for even having them. Everyone is flawed, but decent people work with flaws. I’m going to find someone who actually cares about me.

2017 will be my year to show you who was actually wrong.