To the Guy who broke my heart so long ago: Thank You.
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To the Guy who broke my heart so long ago: Thank You.

It took everything that I had to finally let go... So here's my thank you to you.

Catherine Faye
Jan 20, 2018
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To the Guy who broke my heart so long ago: Thank You.
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You broke me in ways imaginable. So here I am, standing as a strong young woman, saying to you, Thanks. 

You made me believe in love at first sight. I never wanted to believe that when I was looking right at me, you were looking straight through me. You saw what you wanted and I saw what I wanted to see. 

I put up with all of your lies, gimmicks and games till the point where I believed that love was something that you only saw in movies. You allowed me to believe in something that wasn't there, and for a while, I hated you for that.

You allowed me to feel lonely. You allowed me to question my worth and my use of being here. Little did you know that all of our fights till 3am, all of our yelling and name calling, would lead me to believe that there must be something better.

The hours of shunning, the lonely nights to where you allowed me to go to bed upset or angry, and all the times to where you broke me down to the point where all I wanted was to be let loose of the shackles that you had hold of me. It made me stronger, stronger than you'll ever believe possible. Because of all the little games we played, I am allowed to stand here and say that after I won the game, I flipped the board. 

I know my worth. So thank you. Thank you for all the pointless accusations and mimicking. Thank you for not understanding me so that maybe one day, someone who is worth my while, will. Thank you for using my broken soul as a body bag for the ones yet to come. Because of you, I can show others how strong I have become. 

Thank you for underestimating me. Thank you for allowing me to feel trapped so that once I was freed, I know that true freedom feels like. Living. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to know what I don't want in someone that I will spend the rest of my life with. Because of you, I know now what It's like to love and to be loved, by someone other than you.

Thank you for armoring me with the harsh names and my own tears. Now I am able to live and learn. Lastly, I would like to thank you for all the times to where I feel unloved.

Due to all of the walls that you allowed me to build up, I now have a kingdom in which I reign Queen. 

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