Grief Letters
Read personal stories from people who are writing about grief.
Read personal stories from people who are writing about grief.
Dear Ex-Husband, I never felt what letting go was like until I felt you and me both went our separate ways. Though it won't be wrong to say that it was a scary feeling initially, it was also clear that the things our relationship was going through were hard to carry on with. People do say that it...
Dear Son, I wanted to tell you the reason that I was away from you for so many years. Maybe now that you're an adult you'd be able to understand my reasons. I made horrible choices that ultimately cost me everyone and everything I had in life my most importantly you and your sister. I was drinkin...
To An Old Friend, It has been years since we spoke, but I still think about you every day. I hate that our friendship ended, and I wish we could go back to the way it was in high school again, but I know it probably cannot. Is this just because we grew up and grew apart or for other reasons? I he...
A, I wish words were magic, and maybe some part of me does if I'm writing this, whether it works or not well, that's another problem. Does a spell always work? Can it turn into a curse? Anyway... let's hope this letter turns into a healing spell, even though you won't know this is also for you. M...
Dear Ex Girlfriend, There’s a lot I wanted to say since we talked last. We didn’t end on the best terms and not on the clearest terms either. When I went to school, I was doubly confused on what to do. I said we should separate because I couldn’t do long distance, but I could have! I never told y...
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I'm easy to score, you don't need to say you love me for me to say that I'm yours. I'm kinda cheesy, I'll write you a poem that's way too long to read so I send it in sections. I'm kinda crazy, I want to know more about you, so I write 40 questions to ask you when you spend time with me. You don'...
Dear Ex Best Friend, I think about you a lot. We haven’t spoken in 3 to 4 years now and that still bothers me. I met you in the US and ever since then we were like Cheech and Chong lol. I never wanted to leave your side. I’m about to turn 31, and since our “falling out,“ my heart still hurts over...
To My Father, When I was a young child I truly believed you loved me and we shared a special father-daughter bond. As I got older I began to question the true intentions of why you ignored my sisters and openly admitted I was your favorite. You were manipulating me into thinking I was special to ...
To my sister-in-law, I know we aren't on good terms and haven't been in years. I know everyone thinks I'm just mad at you, and I am. But what I'm too embarrassed to admit is that I was extremely hurt by what felt like rejection from you. My own sister had mental health issues and treated me horri...
Dear Mom, I know it has been 14 years, but I'm sorry for running away from home. At the time I could only think about myself and I know the situation was really hard on you as well. I wish I had stayed and gotten to know my step-siblings, maybe we could have been friends. I thought about you a lo...
Dear Heartbreaker, When we first met you barely even made an impression on me but we talked more after that and the next time I saw you were totally different. There was an instant attraction and overall sense of comfort and safety with you that I had never before experienced with anyone else. I ...
Dear Husband, What has happened to us? How did we get here? Things have changed so much between us. When we met you said you were going to marry me even when I doubted it. You were all about me at that time. You made me feel beautiful. You made me feel loved. We had beautiful children together. Y...
Dear Dad, I can see the pain you’re going through and sometimes I wish you didn’t live so far away so I can have “daddy hugs” on the daily again. It’s been about 10 years since you left but I still miss you all the time. I know and understand the reasons why you had to leave. You had to live your...
From Your Daughter, It has been a lifelong struggle for me to process your abuse. To excuse and explain away your behavior, “she’s my mother so she must be right…it’s the way her generation was raised…she has a mental illness.“ Now you’re approaching your senior years and I am supposed to be gent...
EX LOVER, BEFORE YOU LEFT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD YOU HAD TOLD ME MULTIPLE TIMES THAT YOUR ARMS WOULD BE OPEN FOR ME WHEN I WAS READY. AND THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE I WAS GOING THROUGH SO MUCH STRESS AND ANXIETY. IT WAS MY LIGHT. IT WAS THE BIGGEST REASON I WORKED SO HARD TO ...
To My Darling Ex, It has now been four months since you completely broke my heart. Not a day goes by I don’t think of you and wonder what you’re doing and do you think of me? I just wish I knew what I did so wrong? And how you can tell me you love me in the most romantic of ways, only to turn aro...
Dear Ex, I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing you to inform you that you have been on my mind for a while. And I want to know how you are. I cannot help but reminisce about old times and I have been thinking about you a lot as of late. You’ve been on my mind ever since you showed up at my friend...
Dear Ex-Girlfriend, not a month goes by that I don’t think about the way things ended. That day in February was bitter cold when you called me. I was in bed, hungover, and just feeling lousy about myself and life. I hated who I had become at that point. I was drinking again every day, and you wer...
Dear Friend, I know it’s been a while since we’ve talked, and that is partially my fault. I know after we broke up I lashed out at you and I feel guilty and ashamed about the behavior. I was just so very much in love with you and I was planning my future around you. I never told you or anyone els...
Hey There Lover, here you and I are, sharing a page. I wish we could share a hug again but you were so very dead by now. When you died you asked for me, and I couldn’t be there and I am so so sorry. I didn’t get to be there. Most nights I’m up and often I think of you until it’s too late to sleep...
Hi, I miss you. I think I may be in love with you. Me, a wife and a mother, a part of an altogether different family, am in love with you, a husband and father of another family. You will never find stories like this, will you? Or movies? No. How can it be? For such a love story to be palatable t...
I have had several people in my life die. I had felt a connection to them in my backyard. When I need guidance or missed them I will go into my backyard and speak to them. I have many times asked them how I should handle a situation and I truly feel like they are listening and they will guide the...
Dear E-Girlfriend, I guess I should have written to you years ago, but I didn't have the guts to do it. It took me a long time to grow as a person and become mature, this was the only way I was able to look back and realize the mistakes I had done, including hurting you so deeply. I wanted to say...
To the person who will hear me out, I think that if we can get President Trump out of the White House after the election there will be hope for this country. Donald Trump has been seen as the most fearful catalyst for social justice reform since the Civil Rights movement became a significant part...
Dear Boyfriend, I don't know if I love you and I'm not sure if you love me. We say it every day, and there's of course, at least, a part of me that believes it. But there's a, and I hate to admit this, a larger part of me that just isn't sure. We met under such crazy circumstances, and we were so...
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Hi Friend, I'm writing because there's something I want to get off my chest. I don't really know how to talk about it. Four years ago my youngest brother died in a car accident. It's destroyed my family. I've never felt so lost in my life. What I've never shared with anyone, though, is that I sti...
Dear Friend, It's been a while since we last spoke. I hope all is well with you and the family. I do know it hasn't been easy during this period of corona which has hit the world for more than five months now. I write you this letter to also share my experiences of my struggle with the coronaviru...
To An Ex-Boyfriend, Even though it has been more than a decade since we broke up, I still think about you and how awful everything turned out between us. We were very young and for a long time we were very happy and did everything together, but when I started feeling more and more like the adult ...
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Hi You, I can't believe it's already nearing August. Being "homebound" for so many months sure does weird things to time. COVID has ruined so many plans, & now we found out that Dad has cancer. I'm so sad that we had to cancel our trip in June. I haven't seen either of my parents since December. ...
Dear Past Self of 2019, I come in peace to warn you. I want to prepare you, but I don't know how to. It is very difficult to write it all on this one sheet of paper. I hope you are able to read every word. I've put a lot of time and thought into what I want to say. Please head my words. Your hear...
To My Dearest Friend, I hope that this letter finds you well. I just want to share with you what's been going on since the while COVID-19 pandemic. There have been some changes, such as my work, my husband's work, and the kid's school. What I am most upset about, I know this may sound really inap...
To My Math and Physics Teacher, When I first stepped into your room, I feared you. I feared that you wouldn't like me because I wasn't good at math. I feared you because I thought you'd get mad at me for not paying attention. I feared you the most because I thought you'd be like those teacher...
To My Ex-best Friend, I never thought I would be writing this letter to you. At one point in time, you were one for the closest people I had in my life. I miss you more than anything but I am stuck with the reality of learning to live without you. My birthday was last week and I didn't hear an...
Dear you, I don't think you know how much you hurt me. But even more, I don't think you care. I have spent months trying to wrap my mind around everything that has happened. How could you just leave like that? And expect me to be okay with it? Did you ever stop for a second to think that sendi...
Dear Grandfather, Even though you are gone, I wanted to spend a few minutes to thank you for all the love and selfless devotion you gave me for so many years. Since my father was never around, you became our surrogate, and now I realize that you were, in all important ways, my father. I rememb...
Dear Past Lover, I didn't know what I was missing in my life until I met you. You taught me how to love, how amazing life was, and how beautiful I was, though I didn't know. The day I met you was a really good one. You came to me, speaking a language I didn't talk at all, making my cheeks red...
My Dear Dad, You are the person I admire most in the world. When Mom left us at an early age, you were the one who took care of me and you were both father and mother to me. I have hurt you many times, but you have never given up your responsibility. The biggest mistake I made is my life was t...
TO MY BELOVED LATE HUSBAND, LAST WEEK WAS TWO YEARS SINCE I LOST YOU. CONTINUING ON WITH LIFE WITHOUT YOU HAS BEEN SO DIFFICULT AND SO PAINFUL. FREQUENTLY I SEE OR HEAR SOMETHING THAT REMINDS ME OF YOU, AND ALL I CAN DO IS BURST INTO TEARS. I STILL YEARN TO ONCE AGAIN HAVE YOU HERE WITH ME. T...
Dear Mom, Growing up, and even now in my adult years, I am trying to figure out what I have done so wrong. You have always treated me like any decision I ever made was bad. You told my children that I shouldn't be their mother, all because I worked full time. Now that I am an adult, it makes ...
To The Man I Lost, When I heard you passed away, my world stopped. Time stood still. I become rock solid and cold. My tears took a while to show up, but when they finally did, they didn't cease to stream down my face for weeks. First came the shock, then the pain along with all the sadness ...
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