When we started out things were great. We were happy together and thought nothing in the world could tear us apart. But then something did, and it was devastating, but I couldn't be more thankful that we're not a couple any longer.

I thought I knew you. I thought I knew what type of person your were, but as time went by I learned that I was so incredibly wrong about you. Your habits drove me nuts and you knew it. You said you would change, but I knew that you were all talk. I'd heard it before, and you never changed a single thing. If I had known about them before we started dating, I never would have said yes when you asked me out.

The smallest things about you became infuriating. Your lack of motivation or drive of any kind, your incessant need to always be touching, your ridiculous obsession with shoes, they all drove me insane.

But I kept my opinions to myself because I wanted to be a good girlfriend. I wanted to make you happy so we could be happy together. I was willing to compromise so that we could both have the things we wanted.

But the thing I hate most about us ever being together was that you pushed my boundaries. You knew what they were and said you supported my decisions, but you became proof that people will say things they don't really mean. You made me feel like my opinions and choices were unimportant, like the things I valued didn't matter. I wasn't going to put up with that anymore.

I was so caught up in the idea of being in love that I didn't care who it was with or what I went through to get it. At least after everything that happened I learned what I don't want in a relationship I don't want someone who makes me feel inferior I don't want someone who makes me feel like my values aren't important.

I don't want someone I can't communicate with on an intellectual level I don't want someone who purposefully does things he knows I don't agree with and then lies to me about it.

I don't regret many things from my life because at the time I had a reason for doing everything I chose, but if I could take us back I would. Unfortunately, I can't, so I'm stuck with the bad memories of something I thought was a good idea and the fear that the men in my future will be like you.