On several occasions my therapist has recommended that I write a letter to my ex. One that he'll never see, but which allows me to say everything I want and need to say to him. This is a common therapeutic practice that I have resisted until lately. I've been seriously thinking about it for a about a month now. I actually sat down a couple of times to write it expecting a long diatribe of furious epithets and pitiful sorrow. But after several attempts and staring for hours at a blank screen, what I've finally settled on not only surprises me, but IS also surprisingly liberating.
My final letter to my ex would read as follows:
Dear ***,
I know what you are.
Laura
July 4, 2009
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Fantastic
I've heard about this technique before and have used it in the past. I'm also using it on my own N right now, with a slightly different technique... it's a long rambling email sitting in my "Drafts" box, which I revise intermittently (and which will never actually be mailed anywhere). As I manage to integrate each particular element of what my N did to me, passages of the email get deleted. Eventually, in theory, it won't exist at all anymore.
Perfect Good Bye letter, wouldn't change a word.
That's good advice. Sadly for me, I keep mailing off those letters, which never really helps much.
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