18 things we forget to thank our exes for

13. For loving you even when you weren’t your best self and showing you that you didn’t need to be perfect, but you do have to be whole (and those are two different things.)

14. For teaching you to be grateful for the things that don’t work out, because now that the whole picture is in front of you, you see how what you lost made way for what you didn’t yet know you’d find.

15. For helping to create the person who is loved by someone else, a someone else you now feel you were maybe getting ready for all along.