I don't blame you. I don't wish bad things upon you, her, or you two together. In fact, I'm glad you could find someone to settle down with, and if she's that, by all means, I am so incredibly happy for you.

However, I wish you would have known better than to tell me anything other than the truth. You didn't have to give the bullshit excuse every other guy uses the: "I need to focus on myself" line. We're adults now, and honestly, I would have handled, "Look, you're awesome, but I think I met someone more compatible with me," much better. Because even though we weren't a thing (or whatever to heck we were) for long, your excuse didn't give me any explanation as to what I did or what happened, and that drove me crazy. That's what drives every girl crazy, not knowing the truth.

I want you to know that besides all that, besides trying to ease the end with more lies, like "Now's not the right time." or "It's not that I'm not into you." I even don't speak negatively of you in the slightest. People ask me if it's awkward how things played out, but I never say bad things about you. Of course, I was bummed for a little while, but sometimes things happen that you just have to get over, and that's what I did. I still think you're as great of a guy as I did before all the bullshit, and I would tell anyone that. When my friends speak badly of you, I'm quick to come to your defense because I don't want to be just another girl you played who now hates you, because I don't.

Did you play the hell out of me? I mean, yeah, seems like it. But I get that life is a lot more complicated than what people care to admit sometimes. I can't help it that there's someone else who gives you something that I couldn't. You told me you could have handled things differently, and I wish you would have. Then we probably wouldn't be in this slightly weird limbo of both of us pretending nothing happened. I also want you to know that I don't care much about us anymore. You can grab my side, hug all over me, bring up inside jokes we shared when she's not around, but that doesn't make me any less over the situation than what I've come to be. I guess it may seem like it, considering I went out of my way to write my first article to you, but don't think I stay up at night wondering what you're doing or why you went to her over me. If anything, the only reason why I'm writing this is for closure for myself.

And to anyone who has been left for someone else, I hope you don't regret anything you've done with that person. We've all heard the quote, "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Maybe you're like me, and whatever you had wasn't actually as serious as love, or maybe you were in a total committed relationship and someone completely shattered you for someone else. But either way, I hope you look back at that time and remember that it was a great something and a wonderful almost. More than anything, I hope you want the person who did you wrong to be happy because everyone deserves to be happy in the long run. Remember that life has a funny way of making it seem like it sucks before it gets better. Don't let one bad ending keep you from having a different spectacular beginning. I sure as hell won't.