To the boy who strung me along... for 6 years,

Thank you. Really, thank you. For showing me how I should not be treated. You showed me what it's like not to be loved, even when you promised me you did. That was a lie, just like everything else. I was young and immature enough to tolerate this thing you called love. But it was everything but exactly that.

It took me 6 years, literally 6 years to understand what I was to you. Whether you admit it or not, I was your "go-to girl". After every failed relationship you came back to me, after I asked if I could help you each and every time no matter the words you said to me in-between. You showed me how well I can love someone, because I was there for you after all the times you threw me away when you got someone better.. for the time being.

I guess you could say it started with me, I was your best friend first and after a few months, it was the first time you threw me out to be with someone else. Swallowing my pride, I tried my best to be the bigger person, even though I was in 7th grade. After each and every break up until senior year, I asked if you were okay. Each time we became best friends again, until you got someone better. I had my "boyfriends" I guess you could call them too, but never lasted more than a month, since I everything they said to me, I had compared back to once the words you said to me.

Everyone knows how I used to be with my feelings, but any average person could see that you were the only special person in my life until February of 2016. You knew how much I actually cared, even if you say you didn't. Fortunately this last break up you had, I wasn't there for you to scoop back up for a few more months until you got someone new. Fortunately for me, I found someone who couldn't compare to you and treated me as their first thing in life, something I had never gotten from you. Even though you maybe wanted to, you never showed it.

Through all 6 years of lies and heart break after heart break, I trusted you, believed in you, and really wanted the best for you, even if it wasn't with me, I wanted you genuinely happy. That happiness was only in me within the months you were single and needed a fill-in. My only real accomplishment I ever felt with you is when I wasn't there for you to pick back up this last time, and I was with someone who has showed me what its really like to be wanted 100% of the time, not just 50%. My wish for you is to be as happy with someone else as I am with my person, and not to let them go like you let me leave. Again, thank you, for leading me to my new person, who is everything I wished you were at one time.