Dear first love,

Since we’ve broken up, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect over what our relationship was. Although it was far from perfect, it was the perfect first love. We both fell head over heels for each other when we were 15, and of course, I thought I was in heaven dating the star of the football and baseball team (basketball not so much). I spent most of my high school years with you and I wouldn’t change it if I could, because even though it didn’t work out, I learned so much about love those three years.

When you first told me you loved me I ran away from you, literally ran. I think that was the beginning to our crazy, embarrassing, hilarious love story. Through the years, we had many memories together, some that I want to forget and some that I will always laugh at whenever they cross my mind.

I didn’t want our journey to come to an end, but I think that both of us knew it was time. We had become what most people called an “unhealthy relationship,” which was probably right. As teenagers, it’s hard to think that this is the person you’re going to spend your life with. I loved you so much, but I knew you couldn’t be my husband. You were still too focused on yourself rather than focusing on the needs of others. Which is what boys in high school do. It’s science that girls mature more quickly than guys do, which had very well happened in our case and I let you know about it many times (sometimes very rudely). So even though both of us played roles in our relationship being my first love and heartbreak, I thank you for showing me what love is.

Love is patient, love is kind, love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Although I wouldn’t change my first love, I never want a love like that again. I want the kind of love that God tells us all about, the kind that is patient, is kind and never fails. In order to have a great love like this, you need a man that is willing to put God first and then you. Whenever you find that guy, don’t let him go, thank him for leading you closer to God, encourage him to stay on the right track and follow him down it.