To the man who broke my best friends heart,
I've spent so much time thinking about what I would say to you. I don't even think you could begin to imagine how many hours I've wasted thinking of the perfect combination of words I could string together that would finally make you understand.
At first, you were perfect. You were the light of hope in a long, dark, ongoing storm. Over time, things changed and throughout the course of the relationship, I saw how your love changed her, but it wasn't in the manner that love should change a person.
You were selfish and asked her to sacrifice more than she will ever admit. You see, she loved you more than she loved herself. Even before you decided to leave her behind, you made her constantly question her self-worth and made her doubt that she was worth loving. You had destroyed every beautiful thing she saw in herself. She became a shell version of herself and became someone who was insecure, fearful of making you angry, absolutely terrified that one wrong move would make you leave. She gave everything to you. All of the little pieces that made her, her, she handed over to you because she believed you were worthy.
Regardless of how hard she tried to make you happy, you weren't. Hell, she could have been the most perfect individual, but you still would have found some fault, some lack of action, something that you weren't satisfied with.
After you left, I did my best to pick up the mess you left behind, but the damage you did, will never go away.
It took a long time to reach the point she is now and she's finally happy. She laughs and is more like the fun, confident, loving person who she was before you came along. However, despite her smiles, she will never be the same. Because of you, she still catches herself questioning her worth. Regardless of how many years pass, she will always think that she is the one who is wrong in any relationship, because you taught her that. Because of you she will always be afraid of letting someone in, the way she let you in, because she knows the pain, the emptiness, that comes after a breakup is unbearable. Even after she chooses to let someone begin to understand her beautiful soul, she will question why they chose her.
After taking some time to think, the one thing I have left to say to you is...thank you.
Even after everything, thank you for setting my best friend free, because quite frankly, you never deserved her in the first place. By ending a relationship that was poisoning my best friend, you have her the best lesson in her life and taught her what and who she deserves.
In fact, you gave her an opportunity to find someone who is actually worth having and knowing every single thing about her. Someone who will love her, even on her worst days, and make her feel more loved every single day, than you did over years.
Even though I'm not by her side, I know the man in her pictures is someone knows that this girl is one of the best things to ever happen to him, and I couldn't be more grateful.
