Shame Letters
Read personal stories from people who are writing about shame.
Read personal stories from people who are writing about shame.
Dear Potential Life Partner, After I graduated college, back in 1996, I would go down to Manhattan twice a month by taking the train from the suburbs. I would go to a gay bar. I was somewhat depressed at the time being that I just finished college, and I didn't know what my place in the world wou...
My Dearest Friend, I write this letter to reveal to you a secret I have had for almost 30 years. It is a source of my deepest shame. There’s not a day that goes by that I do not think of it and cringe. My hope is that by revealing the secret to you, my dearest friend, I can release myself from so...
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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 Dad, I know our relationship had gotten stronger since I had S but there are things in my life that I've always wanted to express and tell you but have never had the courage to why out loud and still don't. Why was I never good enough for you? Is it because I wasn't a boy? Is it because I wa...
A letter to myself I want to be someone else, I'm sick of the skin I'm in. I'm a Debby down who only thinks negatively about who I am. I radiate positivity for others, everyone sees me as a happy bubbly person but on the inside, I'm so insecure with everything I do and say. I feel like I'm not wo...
Dear Mother, This is a secret that I kept to myself for 14 years. As you may know, I was not able to graduate on stage for high school because I failed a number of classes and I attended adult school, but what you do not know is that I never finished school. I never received my GED. I have never ...
Dear Person I Hit With A Car, I never learned your name. I’ve always referred to you in my tellings as “that drunk guy crossing the road at 2 AM.“ I still remember the sickening thump and the shape of something, which was you, going over the hood in the misty darkness. When I realized what had ha...
To an old lady I hurt, it has been two years since our encounter and I owe you an apology. I lied to you during that time. I still remember clearly that you asked for a ride outside the store, you said your husband passed away and you were not able to drive home. I lied to you, I said I had an ap...
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...
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...
To My Lovely Wife, I’m writing this letter with great hopes that you’re well and keeping safe at home. How are our children? I have really missed them. I guess it has been a long time since I last spoke to them on the phone. It was my promise to you last week, that I would share with you a secret...
Dear Love of My Life, I have kept a pretty big secret from you for nearly twenty-seven years now. There were many times I was tempted to come clean with you about it but I could never quite muster the courage. When I got pregnant right after my previous marriage had ended, I called you and told y...
Dear Best Friend, Girl. I am currently in a mess. Long story short, I've found myself in a love triangle. I guess you could call it that...Remember the guy I was dating and we broke up in April? Well...he came back (they always do), and we started talking and have plans on dating again. The probl...
Dear Old Friend, How has the indoor life been treating you and your family? Life has been tough over here due to the pandemic. My wife has a new baby coming and all the dying going on the world because of COVID-19 has been making us rethink the decision of bringing a baby into the world. Luckily ...
DEAR FRIEND, I WANTED TO TAKE SOME TIME TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES I HAVE BEEN THROUGH IN MY LIFE. I NEED TO LET YOU THAT I DON'T GET TO LIVE MY LIFE IN THE SAME MANNER THAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES. THE REASON FOR THIS IS MY SKIN COLOR. I KNOW THAT YOU DON'T FACE THESE ISSUES SINCE YOU ARE PA...
Dear you ever have is to your friend, I hope your junior year in high school went well. Congratulations, you are now a senior, and closer to adulthood tchan been. It nove teme for you to apply to colleges, and being academically well off just how I was back in high school, I'm sure you're going t...
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 ...
Dear Fiance, I am writing this letter to you as I feel writing will be an easy way for me to express my feelings and let out what I have been carrying in my heart for ten years now. I couldn't bring myself to tell you in person as I am very emotional about this topic and to some extent, I feel so...
Hello, I am writing to you to give my thoughts on the gig economy. Robert Reich aptly calls this the "Scraps economy," Where labor has to fight for an ever-smaller crumb of the labor supply This, I feel, is wrong But I feel trapped by the gig economy and can only be satisfied by small acts of...
To Someone... Anyone. If I could tell you anything... I would tell you I regret everything about my life. I got married young, bought a house in the next town over from where I grew up...adopted a dog and a bunch of cats. I basically tied myself down with a bunch of decisions before I even kne...
Dear Boss, I really hate that you fired Y and you made X quit. I don't care that they weren't perfect workers. They were the only two people at that place that really cared about me. Don't you realize that everyone there is doing their best to deal with a horrible boss? That's you! You just l...
Dear Whoever, So I am supposed to write to you about my "innermost thoughts." Honestly, they're pretty dark these days. I am flat broke, I am lonely, I both crave intimacy and reject it all the same. I want to get married and have children and both feel so far out of my grasp. I am not going t...
Dear, Though this may be in my mind about how I feel about the situation at work, I'm going to speak my mind about you and the five years I've been able to see the person that you are. You are the most selfish person I know. The work team overall should be your goal in being successful. Howeve...
ABC Marketing Executive BB Labs. TO, Mr.XYZ Human Resources Dear Mr.XYZ I have been a faithful employee in this company for the past four years. My time at the company has been good one so far, but now a problem has crept up, which threatens to disrupt my otherwise peaceful time at the ...
To the girl I hurt in school, I have been wanting to write this letter to you all my life, well, most of my adult life anyway. This may be very selfish of me, but I wanted to say sorry for all the times I bullied you Whenever your name gets brought up or I try to teach my kids about bullying I...
Dear Daughter, Writing this letter to you as I have not been able to express what I really felt all these years, Since your child food you always behaved in the way you wanted your behavior has caused us great pain. Though you were good at studies, you befriended all kinds of funny guys and h...
To The Man Who Hurt Me, You were supposed to be someone I could trust and rely on. Someone who provided nurturing love, someone I could run to when I needed help. For quite some did trust you. I gave you love and my and time. While I begged to be in your life, you were busy fading from mine. I...
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 Mom, Got a chance to express my feelings to you today. All my life you were a great support to me. As I my life is filled with struggles and pain you are the only support that I had throughout my life. This letter can't fully express my feeling, but I am sure by writing this letter I will...
Dear Society, I greet you with love, strong sentiments, and a deep sense of responsibility. Being an indispensable part of you, a unique, non-replaceable part, I understand the scope of my duties and obligations and I am more than willing to do my best in fulfilling them. But, I have serious d...
Dear Mom, I have so many things to say to you I know not where to begin. I would like, if you are willing, to let me put all my thoughts into parts. Let us consider this “Part I” About a week ago, you wrote me a letter, and I have yet to formally respond to that. Before I address any part ...
My Dear Sis, I think that even though we were brought up in the same house, our views are so different. There are differences between competition outside and inside the family. I wonder why you would want to compete with family members. Why can’t you just find outsiders to compete with? I wan...
To the Man I Love, I don't know why it is so hard for us to speak. But we have to speak. We have to fix these problems we have because if not, it will be the end of us. I know this and you know this, as sad as it may be. I love you and I always will. This is not a question of love, but of how ...
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 ...
Dear First Love, I wanted to apologize, so I’m doing so now. This letter that you’ll never receive, an apology for what I did. Although I should talk to you, I won’t, because, if I hurt you, you did hurt me more. However, this is not a letter about what you did or what you did not, but about y...
Dear Person who Hurt Me, I don't know who you are and I suppose I will never know. I know you may not know how much You've changed my life and you may not even care. But I do! I'm the one who has to live with what you did! I was only a baby and you felt the need to put your disgusting hands on...
To whom it may concern: Why did you do all of that stuff to me when I was younger? It changed me, both mentally and physically. I know I did not show it. As I was a Silent child. But you stole my childhood away, I sometimes wonder what I would have done and accomplished if you would have left me ...
Dear Ex Love My whole life I was concerned with being a good person land someone that my family could be proud of I grew up seeing my sister getting hurt by her boyfriends and my mom crying because of the inconsideration of my father, I honestly believed if I worked hard enough and became a docto...
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