Forget The Girl Who Broke "Girl Code's Cardinal Rule" And Remember Who The Victim Really Is
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Forget The Girl Who Broke "Girl Code's Cardinal Rule" And Remember Who The Victim Really Is

I've been the girl on the other side of your game.

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Forget The Girl Who Broke "Girl Code's Cardinal Rule" And Remember Who The Victim Really Is
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This past week on Odyssey I have seen this same article resurface time and time again. Each time I see it, it makes me even more sick to my stomach than it did the first time that I read it. I've read each word she has written multiple times, honestly trying to understand her point of view, and instead, all that I come up with are all of the things I wish that I could tell her.

So, to the girl who dated someone else's man and doesn't regret it, here's what you should know:

I've been the girl on the other side of your game. And I'm not alone.

I have had a girl message my boyfriend and tell him how pretty I am and how happy she is for us only for her to turn around and tell him how badly she wishes that it was her dating him instead of me. I've watched my boyfriend fall for it and leave me for this girl who seemed so eager to pursue him. I have been the one having to live with the pain that this girl caused me for almost the past year now. The same pain that you seem to boast about now.

I have spent months trying so hard not to hate her. As soon as I think I've finally moved on and forgiven her, I'm awake in the middle of the night because I have a dream of her kissing my boyfriend at a party. She's laughing in my face because she knows what she did to me. And she's proud.

If someday I ever had the chance to meet face to face with her and tell her anything I wanted (that is, if I could someday look at her without crying), it would be this: the amount of pain that she caused me is simply irreversible. I want her to know that her selfishness was in no way worth the months that I spent forcing myself to get out of bed and the nights that followed of crying even my waterproof makeup off.

I want her to know that I still think about what happened every single day. How she made me feel as though what she wanted was more important than what I wanted. How she was so willing to make me feel inferior for her own benefit.

I'll spend forever wondering if she saw him as just a quick rebound or her "forever person" as you claim to have seen your boyfriend. The answer to that, I'll simply never know. What I do know, is that he was mine, not hers. If you truly believed that this guy was your "forever person," couldn't you have just waited it out and let them find that they weren't right for each other on their own?

No, you can't take back what you did. I'm not even saying that you should go apologize to his old girl (believe me, you're the last person on the planet she wants to hear from) or break up with him simply given the circumstances that you two ended up together. But please show some remorse for what you put this other woman through. Stop bragging about breaking the "cardinal rule of girl code." You are the reason that girls can't trust each other.

You may have seen him as your forever person, but with all due respect, so did she. You took what was rightfully hers. You are selfish. You are the reason I have had to turn Taylor Swift's "Better Than Revenge" into my own anthem.

And for the record, I do not forgive you.

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