I do not regret my time I spent with my ex.
He changed my life in so many ways. He helped me out of hard drugs. He and I had the most adventurous times of our life together. He started me on a path to learn about music. He showed me how to start a chainsaw. He took pictures of me when he thought I wasn’t looking because he thought I was beautiful. He taught me things that helped me see politics from other angles. He accepted my craziness most of the time. He let me have freedom to do what I want. He spent a decade with me and it is part of who I am.
Hold up… “he let me have freedom”?
That is exactly the ideology I needed to let go of. “Letting me” do anything makes anyone the wrong one for me.
It took the final break-up for me to feel like I could be free. Not free of him, free of my own commitment to a relationship which was already unhealthy for so many reasons from both sides of the equation.
I will always be grateful for my time with him. He changed me.
I’m laying any thoughts about him to rest now. I hope that with meditation he never crosses my mind again.