To My Narcissistic, Manipulative Ex-Boyfriend: Have Fun Living With Yourself

Your head is so high that you can’t even think the words “I’m sorry,” let alone feel them.

I realize now that I don’t have to forgive you for you to set me free.

You don’t deserve forgiveness and I can’t see myself ever offering it to you.

You took whatever self-respect I had left and tore it up, then laughed about it with your friends.

I’m still not sure if you’re so naive that you can’t see how aggressive you are or if you’re really a sociopath.

I’m equally unsure which is worse for you.

You said this was the worst breakup you could imagine. Um, do you think so? The fact that you consider it a breakup shows how disconnected you are from reality.

It wasn’t a breakup. It was spiritual rape for someone who doesn’t sleep with a bunch of guys like it’s no big deal and someone who trusts you to be a good person (or at least the type of person who has enough respect for others to actually talk to them when it’s time to end things).

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That’s why I was so angry.

You ran and hid when you knew how much pain I was in.

Your ability to turn a blind eye to someone who is hurting so much – someone you claimed to be a friend – is in stark contrast to the man you claim is so disappointing.

I don’t care how much you deceive yourself and those around you; you are selfish.

You are a coward who didn’t even have the courage to talk to me like a real man.

But you sat while your ex slept with someone else, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

You are manipulative. You are a fake.

I don’t know if it was your childhood that corrupted you, or your crazy religious upbringing, or your messed up marriage, but something damaged you – beyond repair.

You get credit for being persuasive.

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The fact that you got someone like me to give someone like you a chance is worth at least two pieces of cake.

But you decided to see if you could get someone like me to be with someone like you, as a kind of conquest.

I honestly don’t know how you can look at yourself in the morning without wanting to punch yourself in the face.

I pray that you raise your son to be a real person with real feelings who is strong enough to do what is right, even if it upsets him or makes him uncomfortable. I pray to God that you raise your daughter so that she cannot tolerate men like you.