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An Open Letter To The Guy Who Never Stayed

Where would we be if you chose to stay?

Lindsey Nicole Parrish
Jul 12, 2016
Auburn University at Montgomery
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An Open Letter To The Guy Who Never Stayed
Divorced a Women's Club

To the guy who never stayed,

You were my person. You were the one who made me feel every feeling inside from love to hate and everything in between those two things. You were the one I always wanted beside me when all my dreams finally came true. You were the one I hoped would be standing at the end of the aisle waiting for me to walk down with my favorite man in my perfect wedding dress. You were the person I thought the world of and the one I never wanted to lose.

But that fairy tale didn’t come true.You were that boy for me but the problem was that I was never that girl for you. I wasn’t the girl you thought the world of. I wasn’t the girl you wanted beside you and I certainly wasn’t the girl you wanted to spend forever with. Our relationship was rocky from the first day but still I never got far from you. You were always a part of my life even when you weren’t physically there. You would come into my life for certain chapters and be gone before I could turn around. I would have given up everything just to be with you but that was never good enough. Nothing I did was ever good enough for you because I was never enough to make you stay.

It’s hard when you love someone with everything you have and know they will never choose you. I knew I would never be the girl to make you stay. I was never going to be the girl that swept you off your feet and the one you could not imagine your life without. I knew all of these things because of the way you left me. You left me over and over again knowing the way I felt about you and knowing I wanted more than anything for you to stay.

You knew it hurt me when you left but you left anyway. Each time you left, you returned and I never knew why. The hardest part of loving you was knowing that you would leave and come back and never tell me why. I wanted to know why you left and I wanted to know why you came back. I wanted to know what I meant to you but I will never know. It hurts my heart because I feel I deserve to know. I want to understand more than anything but I’ve come to realize that I just have to accept it for what it is.

You will always hold part of my heart and I’m okay with that, but what I’m not okay with is not knowing what we could have been. I will never truly know what could happen if you ever came into my life and stayed and that is the hardest part of all.

Sincerely,

Me

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