Monday, August 17, 2009

A Dear John Letter

Dear Donna,

You mean more to me than I can say. But I can not bear the way you treat me. Everything else matters more to you than me—your work, the house, the children.

You don’t listen to me. You don’t try to understand or fulfill my needs. When was the last time you thought about what I want? When will I come first? I am overlooked and ignored every single day. Yet I continue to support you--day in and day out--in all that you do.

But I can’t go on this way. I feel more than mistreated, I am abused. If we continue down this course it will end badly for both of us.

I didn’t want to wait for some kind of crisis to occur before I said these things to you. I don’t want us to hit bottom. So I am drawing a line in the sand TODAY. If you want me to stay around, to stand by you, to care for you, you need to show me that you care. The time has come for you to learn how to love me.

Signed, Your body

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