Helen
Helen, you probably know all this already but I could never tell you face-to-face because you hate sentimentality and would call me ‘soppy’, but I need you to know how I feel.

I want you to know that even though we are no longer together, I still think about you every day and miss you as much as the day you walked away. I know that the opportunity to live and work abroad was an one that you could not have turned down and I would never have dreamed of trying to persuade you otherwise. Had I somehow managed to keep you here, you would have resented me and we would have ended on far worse terms.

I want to thank you for the amazing three and half years we spent together. I remember the first time I met you, I fell for you completely and began to think that perhaps I had finally met my soulmate.

I want to thank you for giving me a chance and not quitting and running when the going got a little rough. I want to thank you for changing me into the person I wanted to be and not the person I couldn’t be. I want to thank you for taking away my fear of commitment. I want to thank you for your advice and your support, even when I resisted and accused you of patronising me. I want to thank you for making me so proud to be seen with you. I want to thank you for making me walk with my held high, instead of slouching through life alone.

I have never wanted to stay in touch with exes before and I am so glad that we are ‘friends’; I could not and still cannot bear the thought of never seeing you again. I am so glad that you wanted to see me at Christmas, when you visited. When you called on Christmas Day, when you were with your family and I was out walking in the hills, I was so unbelievably happy. I loved every minute of our walk around Harrogate, doing the things we always used to do: my following you into all the various clothes/shoes/handbag shops, carrying your bags and finishing off with coffee together later. I loved that we saw 2010 in together. I loved that you giggled when you came the following morning, when the last time you did we were breaking up and you cried.

Helen, I don’t know if we will ever make it. Things happen for a reason, relationships end for a reason but I feel comfort in knowing that the door is not completely closed. I know that life will invariably take us in different directions and that we may never be together again but I wanted you to know that you were my world and that I would have done anything for you without question.

I know that you’re under a lot of stress at work and I know that you have other people now to take solace in. Just know that I will always be here for you and will always love you.
(Ghostlight, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 12:19, 6 replies)

Helens are evil, i nearly wrote a similar letter to a Helen, she wa in Yorkshire too.

Fuck em all
(countwilfredthehairy i wasn't born to live, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 12:52, closed)

Helens
M'colleague, also one of my mates, sat next to me now would probably agree. His Helen left him after two years of marriage. And shacked up with a mate of his. They now have a kid together. She's lovely though and one of my best mates!

Charlottes are evil. So are Shonas...
(Ghostlight, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 12:59, closed)

I like 'Helen's'...
In fact I hooked up with an ex/ex/ex? Helen the other night, wasn't the same though, felt very detached so won't be going back there again.

But besides that she's really nice.
(Kip, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 14:40, closed)

as a loser in love/recently dumped for not being 'the one'
I would be well chuffed to be on the receiving end of you.

You sound nice - hope it works out.

(hope her name isn't Helen Bach)
( camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 13:25, closed)

I believe
That her surname is "Mucus".
( Dervel OTBC, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 15:17, closed)

It would be cruel to even try and inject any humour into this
I liked it though and hope that one day it works out for you both
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 16:18, closed)