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To the World

I know what it feels like to be alone. I also know what it feels like to be with someone and still feel like you’re alone. Only one of those “alones” makes you strong. This is especially true when that “somebody” was the person you thought you didn’t have to worry about—the person you thought you were safe with, only for them to turn out to be the person you worry about the most.

I know what it’s like to put everything you have into one person and then for them to wake up one day and tell you that they don’t want you anymore—even when you didn’t do anything but be you the entire time. I know what it feels like for somebody to tell you that “you” wasn’t enough.

I know what it feels like to be scared about your future, about your happiness, because your whole life you thought happiness meant one thing, but more importantly, you thought you had to go to one place to get it. So, before we continue, I want you to know it gets better. I am proof that it gets better.

Lastly, I want you to think about what love is. I want you to think about what happiness is. And I want you to ask yourself, at its core, at its bare minimum, how many people does it take for you to have it, to have both love and happiness? Hopefully the answer is “one” and that one person is you. But if for some reason that’s not your answer, and you feel like you have to be with somebody else to make you feel good, to make you feel loved, or to make you feel happy, then I want you to put as much effort into finding that person as you do into making it work with that person.

Welcome to The Boyfriend Book.