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To The Best Friend who Intentionally Dated The Guy I Liked

A letter to the best friend who decided to date the guy I told her I liked and refused to tell me about it for over a month.

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Nov 14, 2017
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To The Best Friend who Intentionally Dated The Guy I Liked
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Dear Ex-Best Friend, 

I know it's been a while since we've talked. It's only been a couple conversations here and there. You don't even know that I have a boyfriend now. But I do know you're still dating him. You are still dating the guy I told you I had feelings for. 

See when I told you I liked him, I told you as my best friend. I confided in you about the struggle and the heartache and the not knowing if he felt the same. I talked to you about how important my friendship with him was and how these feelings were deeper than the crush I had on him years before he became my closest guy friend. 

I knew he was always in love with you. We all did. But the weekend before you visited us, you swore up and down that he was not the guy for you. And I was naive enough to believe you. You came and visited, claiming it was to see me and spend time with me. I found out a month and a half later that you two started dating that weekend you visited. 

I never understood why you didn't tell me. I went on for a month and a half, struggling with my feelings and thoughts, only to find out via a post on Instagram from him that you two were dating. You never even told me. 

We haven't talked much since then and that was almost six months ago. I'm happy for you two; I've moved on. But it still hurt that for some reason, a guy was more important than our friendship. I would have supported you if you had told me. You were my best friend. He was my best guy friend. I would have done anything to know you two were happy. And I'm sure you told him I liked him at one point. So not only did I lose you, but I lost him too. 

I will always support you, no matter what. I love you and have loved watching you grow, even though we live several hundred miles apart. I just wish things had ended differently. I wish we had more communication and that you could understand more how I wanted things to go well for you. I continue to wish you two the best and hope that someday we can catch up again and reminsce on old times. Until then, I'll miss you. 

Sincerely, 

Your ex-best friend who will support you always 

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