My days used to revolve around you, but not anymore. You see, you enjoyed having that power. You loved having that control, and now that I am better off without you, it upsets you. You don’t know what to do without it.

You manipulated me. You made me believe I would find no one better than you. “No one who would treat me like you did," yet you would never fully commit to being with me. At the time that killed me more than I could comprehend, but now I see that it was your immaturity taking over and directing your feelings.

I was afraid to leave you between the fear of being alone and the fear of what you would do to me if I left. While you never physically touched me, your words were enough emotional abuse for a lifetime. You never trusted me, and there was nothing I could do to change that. You were jealous because of your own insecurities. You constantly would go back and forth between not wanting to hear from me at all to blowing my phone up with your emotional, mean, and selfish text messages.

Once your power ran out you didn’t know what to do with yourself anymore. Who would you get to boss around? Who else would drop everything they were doing at two in the morning to come over when you asked? Who would bring your favorite coffee to work every day in hopes that it makes you notice how much they care? My desperate attempts for your attention were becoming pathetic, and I was finally seeing that. I saw what everyone else saw. I saw how badly you mistreated me. I decided I wasn’t going to be your puppet anymore.

You won’t hear from me much anymore. I won’t text you to see how your day was. I won’t check up on you to see if you’re doing okay. I finally see how happy I am without you; how much I enjoy doing the things that you loathed so much.

I won’t be bothered by your petty text messages any longer. It won’t affect me when you like one of my pictures out of spite. I won’t care when you make passive aggressive remarks towards me. I won’t be hurt when I see you flirting with someone new. You don’t own my emotions anymore; you no longer have that power.