Dear ex-boyfriend,

I am not here to re-open old wounds, yell at you again for the way you treated me, or to call you an idiot once again. Instead, I am here to say a little thank you and to compare my life from when I was with you, to now.

So I’d first like to start out with saying thank you. Thank you for being the first boyfriend where I could feel happy and in love with. Thank you for teaching me what I don’t want in a relationship and for what I want in a relationship.You would tell me "I love you" and just those three words would brighten my day. You never failed to make my day and even though you did not have many social media accounts at the time.

But not all you did for me was good. You broke my heart. You made me feel like I wasn’t worth it and you made me feel like our relationship failing was my fault. When in fact, it was not. You took my heart out and completely stepped on it with your lies. I do not thank you for making me disrespect my family because I felt like I need to get back to you. Most of all, I do not thank you for leaving our relationship the way you did. You told me you wanted space to find yourself again, and I did not understand it, after a four-year relationship because I thought you found yourself when our relationship first started.

It's taken me more than a year to try and get over you, slowly and slowly my feelings for you are vanishing into thin air. Not because it was my first relationship, but because I thought you had actually cared for me. You told me you loved me, but I realized if you did “love me” you would not have left me the way you did. You would not have ended our relationship after spending one of the most memorable dates ever and you would have no dated the next girl so quickly. If you had really “loved me,” you would have stayed with me when things got hard, not leave.

But, as I stated in the beginning, I am not here to express my discontent with you or our past relationship. After our break up, I have found myself again, being able to continue with my life and work towards my accomplishments that were put on hold for you. So I wish you luck with all of your new relationships and you one day find happiness. But please, do not do to them what you did to me.