Trusting someone after having your trust betrayed time after time, it’s really hard. The first couple times it happens you feel taken advantage of, stabbed in the back, deceived or even humiliated. But after it happens time after time, you’re conditioned to not trust anyone so you don’t feel that way anymore. Eventually, you trust no one and keep everything to yourself. And then you come across that one person who you instantly click with. Someone who gives off that vibe that says “I will never cross you.” Someone who you finally feel comfortable letting into your personal world.

This is an open letter to the person who I trust with everything.

First off, I would like to say thank you.

Thank you for coming into my life and never walking out. I’m afraid of losing you because you mean so much to me. You have never given me a reason to think that way. You have talked about the long-term for our relationship. That gives me hope about our relationship growing and never stopping.

Thank you for being trustworthy. After being betrayed so many times, it's hard to trust easily and fully. But you’re special. You make opening up easy. You make me want to tell you everything. When something happens in my life, you're the first one I want to tell. I've never felt so comfortable with someone. Thank you for that.

Thank you for allowing me to vent to you and for always giving me advice. Even if you have no idea how I'm feeling or what I'm going through, you listen. And that's all I really need. But even after you've listened to me, you always try to offer up advice — which is something I greatly I greatly appreciate. Even when you don't know what to say, you always say the right thing. You know how to reach me and you know how to handle me and my multitude of feelings. You pick up on my bad moods and always check up on me. I really appreciate that, nobody has cared that much before.

Thank you for believing in me and never, ever, giving up on me. You believe in me more than I believe in myself. You see my potential and try your hardest to make sure that someday I reach that potential. You want me to succeed and will help me do so no matter what. Thank you.

Thank you for being you.

After being deceived so many times by people who I trusted so much (probably too much), it’s refreshing to be fully confident in someone. Going from having a select few that I trusted with some information, but nobody who I could tell everything to, to having someone, one special person, who I can tell everything to and have no strings attached is an amazing feeling. It’s like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. There is never a question of whether this person will judge me, ridicule me for my decisions, make fun of my feelings, or betray my trust. And for that I am incredibly grateful.