Falling in love can be easy, but the hardest part is letting go and reminding yourself what you deserve. I spent five years trying to make it work. Although I cherish the memories, the best thing I can do is remember to love myself more than I ever loved you.

You had the ability to make me the happiest, but you also made me the saddest. You may have treated me like a princess some days, but others you had me question "why am I not enough for him?" I forgot that I was important too.

You have watched me cry till I couldn't cry anymore, and filled my life with empty promises that would make me forget my own promises I had to myself.

I kept letting you lie to me and It seemed like I could never break away because I thought you would always be my hero saving me from reality.

But instead, you were just the villain sucking the life out of me.

I spent endless days and nights trying to make it work but I realized that a relationship takes two people and it was too late to fix the damages already done.

I may have forgiven you over and over again, but eventually, I had to come to the realization that the only thing I was doing was hurting myself.

I deserved more than the names you called me when you were angry.

I deserved to be cherished and loved for not only my strengths but also my weaknesses.

I deserved to be loved on not only the good and easy days but the hard and bad ones too.

I deserved someone who didn't ignore me when I needed them the most, or who ended our relationship of five years by giving me the silent treatment long enough till I got the clue.

I deserved more.

Although the flowers and presents were nice, I forgot what it was like to love myself enough to be happy on my own.

I won't deny the love we once shared and I can't pretend I don't miss you but right now the hurt is for the better. I can't let the memories become the death of me and I have to let the hope take over.
I'm glad to see everything that you really were for me and I believe that you may have been everything I needed but not anymore.

So, thank you for teaching me how important it is to love myself.

Thank you for showing me how much more I deserve because you didn't love me enough to give it to me.

Thank you for hurting me enough to finally realize that my happiness is more important than yours.

Thank you for giving up on me and disappointing me enough to finally let you go.

While this may be the hardest thing I will ever do, I will make through it even stronger than I was before because I have learned how special and important I really am and one day I will find someone who cherishes me for all the things you didn't.

So, thank you for letting me go and teaching me what I really deserve.

Sincerely,
The Girl Who Once Loved You More Than She Loved Herself.