We can be friends...

This is one of two i'm going to write... this one is just a thank you to him for being a great boyfriend for eighteen months. 

Thank you,

You took someone who had been broken and helped to mend me and without you, my life would have been so much different, lesser. 

Before i met you i was going down a bad path and you saved me before i could get too far. You loved me and let me love you, you made me a part of your family.

Without you i wouldn't have graduated high school. You pushed me, even forced some days, for me to go to school. You truly were the best thing that could have happened to me at that stage of my life. You pushed me to go to school and in that, i did the unthinkable... I graduated on time when everyone told me i wouldn't be able to do it.

We had some problems and we weren't perfect but when i think of you, i never think about mean comments or actions that were said between us.

I remember camping at Ocean Shores, the amazing burgers you made me and the movie marathons we had. When i think of you i always know i owe you more than you might even know, than i might have ever told you.

You not only made me go to school, but met me at the pool with breakfast and hot chocolate and walked me to class before catching your next bus. You took care of me every time i was sick and you gave me a person to lean on. 

When things ended it was hard. You meant so much to me for so long and it was weird to see how we changed after high school... but i never once hated you. I admired the both of us in the way we broke up and how we remained friends even through your next girlfriend and my boyfriend. 

Never once did i hate you. You showed me another family... one that loved me too. You were funny and caring and because of you i'm on a better path in life.

How could you ever thank someone enough for that? 

There was death, love, pain and eighteen months full of life and firsts. 

So more than anything what i want to say.. it's simple... Thank you.

Thank you for being a part of my life and letting me be a part of yours.

Thank you for homecoming, for tolo, for prom. 

Thank you for being an adult with me when we broke up.

Thank you for supporting me at my graduation and letting me be a part of yours.

Thank you for being a huge part of my life as i transitioned from teenager to young adult.

And thank you to your mother and brother for taking care of me and loving me too. 

You deserve the best in life and i only hope that i could have had a portion of the positive impact on your life... than you had on mine.

I know i was imperfect, i know i was difficult and i know i struggled a lot. 

And thank you for loving me through that anyway.

xoxo.