Dear ____,

I want to start off by saying thank you because I never thought I would be able to say that to you. I don't want to thank you for our relationship or for the memories we shared; I enjoyed what we had while it lasted, but I just simply want to thank you for leaving me and letting me be by myself. Yes, I know that may sound like a terrible thing to say; why would anyone want to thank someone for that? Honestly, I used to have that same mindset. Why would anyone want to thank a person for leaving them when at one point that person was all that they could think of? Well, it's because I was able to learn that the person who let me go wasn't who God had for me in my future and I've become OK with that.

Thank you for not staying with me when I thought that you should have. You left me in a time that I thought I needed you the most. You shut me completely out of your life the day that you let me go and I thought that my entire world had stopped and that it wouldn't spin again, but I've found that to not be true at all.

Thank you for the times that you pushed me away from you when all I was trying to do was hold things together. I've learned that if you had pulled me towards you instead of pushing me away, I would still be in a toxic relationship with you. I would still be with a person who was never meant to permanently stay in my life, but only pass through for a short while.

Thank you for never having time for me. I was always upset at you for choosing a night out with your friends instead of a night in with me. I wasn't a person who had to spend every hour with you. All I ever wanted was a few minutes of your time, but I'm glad that you didn't give them to me. The few minutes that you never wanted to give to me, are now hours that another person is proud to share with me.

Thank you for letting me make all of the effort. At the beginning of our relationship, you wanted to spend every waking moment with me, but as time progressed that quickly changed. Soon enough, I was the one having to text or call you first or we wouldn't talk all day. I was having to beg you to spend time with me because you said you were always busy. I was the one having to try to hold our relationship together when I knew it wasn't doing anything but falling apart. In the end, I had to let it fall and I'm so glad that you didn't catch it.

Towards the end of what we had left of us, I was bitter of happy couples. I saw the love and happiness that they were experiencing with each other and I was jealous. I wanted so badly to be happy with someone, to be happy with you, and I wanted to be able to look at you and know that you were just as happy as I was. I knew that I would never see that though. The only thing I would have ever seen with you was disappointment, regret, exhaustion and heartache. Today, I have grown from the relationship I had with you. I have found happiness within myself and I have found happiness within someone else. Thank you for being so unsure of me because you've given someone else a chance to show me that I am completely worth the risk that you used to doubt in me. I'm not only good enough, but I am perfect enough for someone who will never be you, but who will be everything that I thought you should have been. I prayed for you when you let me go, but I've learned that what I prayed for in you was waiting for me in someone so much better.

Sincerely,

The girl who found her true self when you let her go.