To all the boys who are currently loving an insecure girl,

Thank you. Thank you for being patient. I know it isn't easy. One moment she seems fine the next she is in tears unsure of herself or of everything all at the same time. I know loving someone else might be easier than loving her but you just don't want to say it out loud because you know how that will go over.

She doesn't mean it. She doesn't mean to make you upset or make you angry. She doesn't mean to over analyze your every word and twist them until it changes the whole meaning of the word. She doesn't mean to hate herself. She lays awake at night and wonders how you are even still here with her.

So many fish in the sea and you choose the one that doesn't think she is anything special. Just ordinary, a million other fish just like her. I just want to thank you, for the few that have stuck it out. That you have seen that under all the insecurity is a girl who just wants to be loved for being herself. A girl who wants to look in the mirror one day and look at the reflection and know that she will be enough. That she will be enough tomorrow, next month, next year, five years or even ten years from now.

It takes someone special to be with an insecure girl. It takes time and it takes patients. It takes a lot of nights holding her while she cries over something little. It takes meltdowns when even the slightest threat is detected. It takes a true man to see a good soul stuck in their own mind, when that mind is telling them that they are nothing. It takes a true man to hold and stay with the woman that he loves when he knows that someone out there could be easier to love.

She doesn't know if it will get any better. She doesn't know if it will ever stop. She prays that one day she will wake up and look in the mirror and realize that she is worth so much more than what she has thought for so long. That no matter what her head is telling her, that she is worth love and affection just as much as anyone else. That although there are better looking, smarter, funnier, skinnier, less crazy girls out there, you chose her.

It may take more work but I promise you that she is worth it. That she will love you with every inch of her heart. That no matter who she comes into contact with she will always choose you, just like you chose her. She might not be perfect but her love will be.