18 things we forget to thank our exes for

11. For forgiving you – even if not entirely – because it taught you it’s possible. It showed you that time doesn’t dissolve what happened, but growing past being the person who was hurt does.

12. For the discomfort, and all the ways it made you move and change and grow and step into the life you have now. All the ways you could no longer be who you were, and think the way you thought, and behave the way you instinctively did, those were the genesis stories of who you became. The things you left and the places you went and the shoulders you leaned on became the pieces of the life you were always meant to find.