Open letter to the ex that won't stop...

I haven't ever met you but I have never hated a woman more in my entire life. You took so many years of his life and completely drained this sweet teddy bear of a man. Between the mental and physical abuse you scarred him for life. I have shown him every ounce of love I possibly could and will for the rest of our lives to make up for the years you took from him.

He is the most genuine, kind hearted, loving man I have met in my entire life and to imagine having him thrown out in the dead of winter because you were angry at something he did or said. You cheated with him god only knows how many times so he constantly had to look over his shoulder in fear of what the woman he loved was doing. Cutting yourself and looking him in the eyes and telling him it was his fault, I can only imagine the heartbreak he felt in that moment. He wanted to give you the world because you were his.

You tore him down into pieces of the man he was, he became callous and cruel by the end. I'm sure he wasn't perfect but he wanted to give you the world. He gave you years of his love and affection but you were greedy and made sure he knew he was never enough.

After you found out that we were pregnant with our daughter you took the time to unblock him on social media to tell him "good luck with his family" in the snarkiest way you could and play it off like you were being genuine. You taunted him with his dog for years, so much that we genuinely got excited planning on showing him the best life and gave him hope that we would be able to have a shining moment out of all those years, only to have you callously rip his dog away from him at every chance you got.

After 4+ years without you he is still healing from the damage you caused. He hears your name and instantly goes back to where he was 5 years ago. He will carry those harsh memories with him for the rest of his life but you bet your ass I am going to spend every minute of mine showing him as much love and affection as I can in hope's one day he won't flinch at your name.

Just because men don't show their emotions like we do doesn't mean abuse

Signed,

The wife.