Dear C,
We are no longer friends. I don't think we ever will be friends again... certainly not like we were before. I've changed and grown, you've also changed, but I'm not sure it's for the better. I've realized a lot in the last while that I never knew before. I've realized that you're not the kind of person you claimed to be. I think I hurt you; but I owned it, or tried to. You've hurt me more than I ever imagined that you could or would. I'm sorry that things went down with us the way that they did. Hopefully, one day you will recover and get past all of this.
Once upon a time, I looked at you with respect... I'm not sure I can any longer. You've lied too many times. There was a time when I trusted you with my life, I trusted you with my heart. I don't think I can any more, or ever again. You've shut me out with no explanation, you told me we're fine, but we aren't. These little lies hurt more than you realize. I don't understand you any more, I don't know you any more, and I am starting to wonder if I ever did know you at all. You talk big, but you aren't there on the follow through. I asked SO many times what happened to us, and where I went wrong, and you told me that nothing was the matter, and nothing had happened and you loved me forever... and you continued to tell me that when you had blocked me from things. I don't care that you blocked me, it's that you felt the need to lie about it. To tell me things were fine when they weren't.
I've spent the last month missing you like crazy. I've come to realize that I don't actually miss you, though. I miss who we were. I miss how we were. I miss who I thought you were. Who you are now is someone I'm better off without. I swore I'd never walk away, that I'd always be there for you, and I will keep that promise, but we'll never be what we were. You've made me feel like a lot of things were my fault, or that I was stupid for feeling the way that I did. I don't know where to go from here, but it's safe to say that I'll be going there without you in my life. It breaks my heart, knowing that we were so close and that it could all fall apart so fast. I have to move on now though. I have to get out and live my life. There was a time when I thought we would be friends forever... when I thought you'd always be there for me. I realize how naive that was of me now.
You're good at playing hard done by, but you aren't. You have the strength to move past all of this, if you'd stop investing so much of yourself in in.
Your ED isn't you, nor should it be your world. Get off the computer and live life. You have a career, 2 beautiful children and a boyfriend who loves you. Those are the things that you should be investing your time and yourself into. NOT your eating disorder, NOT pa, NOT whatever other online time wasters you have.
You need to take your head out of the sand, stand up, and live.
I never thought our friendship would end this way, and I'm sad it's over.
I'll always have a place for you in my heart, but I can't keep going this way. I can't keep breaking my own heart every day thinking that things are going to change when they won't. You taught me a lot about life, and a lot about myself. I will treasure those lessons for the rest of my life, and be thankful for having learned them. I hope that one day you are able to move past all of this and join the world.
I needed to say this. I needed to get it out. I needed a sense of closure, even if I never get that from actually talking to you. I always thought we had a friendship worth fighting for, I guess I was wrong. I'm sorry it's come down to this, and I'm sorry I'm telling you this way - but you're never online, and you've blocked me from contacting you another way. I understand this means you don't wish to speak to me further - so consider this my last contact. I won't contact you again, unless you initiate it.
I wish you all the best C, I really and truly do.
Thank you for everything, but it's time for me to move forward now.
S