Dear So&So,
"I've made a terrible mistake." Is apparently the way people like to begin breakup letters. Ever written one? Weird things they are...
With these words, I can almost hear a chorus of voices chanting, "I didn't write it for him/her, I wrote it for meeeee," but the fact remains that not one of the letters included in Hell Hath No Fury begins "Dear Self & Partner."
I just wish that people would realise that things like romance-drenched letters are penned best by those who least need to write them. In other words, those who have already moved on. Unlike the frantic revisionism above, the most affecting writing is all anchored by a certain dignified inevitability.
So I'll just go ahead and suggest this as a future template for anyone else who needs advice on how to get started:
"So … if you do just want to be friends, let's just be friends and not do date-like stuff, because then I end up wanting to kiss you, and then you don't, and then I just feel stupid, which is not helping me … meet other people who might actually want to kiss me and date me, which is something I rather enjoy."
Which is for you if you're just "not-so-serious" about the relationship, otherwise the thing to remember is that all the best "it's over" letters all have but one message—"it's over."
"I've made a terrible mistake." Is apparently the way people like to begin breakup letters. Ever written one? Weird things they are...
With these words, I can almost hear a chorus of voices chanting, "I didn't write it for him/her, I wrote it for meeeee," but the fact remains that not one of the letters included in Hell Hath No Fury begins "Dear Self & Partner."
I just wish that people would realise that things like romance-drenched letters are penned best by those who least need to write them. In other words, those who have already moved on. Unlike the frantic revisionism above, the most affecting writing is all anchored by a certain dignified inevitability.
So I'll just go ahead and suggest this as a future template for anyone else who needs advice on how to get started:
"So … if you do just want to be friends, let's just be friends and not do date-like stuff, because then I end up wanting to kiss you, and then you don't, and then I just feel stupid, which is not helping me … meet other people who might actually want to kiss me and date me, which is something I rather enjoy."
Which is for you if you're just "not-so-serious" about the relationship, otherwise the thing to remember is that all the best "it's over" letters all have but one message—"it's over."