Tú fuiste mi lección más dura

Cuando llegaste a mi vida por primera vez, estaba seguro de que fuiste mi bendición. Eras todo por lo que siempre había rezado.

You were smart, interesting, handsome and mature. I thought I’d finally found my other half, my soulmate. For the first time ever, my life made perfect sense with you in it.

Tú me completaste—you were the missing part of the puzzle. I’d met someone who understood me, who took care of me and who was always by my side, no matter what.

Pero sobre todo, tenía a alguien que me quería incondicionalmente. Al menos eso creía yo. Consideraba que su amor por mí era de otro mundo.

Los dos éramos una pareja hecha en el cielo.—El destino debió enviarte a mí, no había otra explicación.

And then everything changed overnight. Actually, you changed and it probably didn’t happen overnight or maybe you showed your true face?

En cualquier caso, me desperté una mañana y supe que nuestra relación estaba condenada. Pero seguí luchando para mantenerla viva. Seguí luchando contra ti. Pero nada ayudó.

Te volviste distante y emocionalmente abusivo. Dejaste de demostrarme lo mucho que te importaba—probablemente porque dejó de importarte.

I realized that you had been too good to be true in the beginning and I’d finally seen your true colors. You’d become selfish and controlling and then all the affairs started.

But I didn’t leave you even then. I lost all the confidence I had and I just waited for you to go back to your old ways. I wasn’t stupid—Sabía que me engañabas, pero me negaba a aceptar la verdad.

I was ready to stay by your side, although it killed me knowing I wasn’t the only one for you. I reassured myself that you only loved me and that not one of these girls were important to you. Until one day, you left me for one of them.

Y rompiste todo mi mundo al hacerlo.

Cuando me dejaste, Pensé que era una maldición. Pensé que era lo peor que me podía pasar. ¿Qué había hecho para merecer algo así?

Why couldn’t you love me? I did everything right but even that wasn’t enough. Fate had given you to me just to show me what love was. And having to live without you was my curse.

Para mí, mi vida había llegado a su fin—ya no tenía propósito ni sentido.

When you left, you didn’t just take yourself away from me—te llevaste mi corazón contigo y no tenía esperanzas de un mañana mejor.

Estaba destrozada, rota en pedazos y nunca imaginé que podría recuperarme. Me pasaba los días esperando a que volvieras, a pesar de cómo me tratabas y a pesar de cómo me dejaste.

That is a period of my life I don’t remember gladly. I just know that I didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel until one morning, you weren’t the first thing that crossed my mind.

And when I realized that during the day, I was ecstatic. I didn’t know how or why it happened but I hoped that I was about to begin my path to recovery.

And I was right. It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t fast but it happened. I got over you and I moved on.

Y ahora me doy cuenta de que no eras ni una bendición ni una maldición. Fuiste una lección Tuve que aprender.

I still believe that everything happens for a reason. And you were sent to my life for a reason. Although I don’t think that my life is meaningless without you anymore, I am sure that your existence in it had a bigger purpose.

If it weren’t for you, I would never have learned how strong I actually am. You leaving me has made me a lot tougher and braver. Now I know that if I can get over you, I can also take whatever life throws at me.

If it weren’t for you, I would never have learned that I shouldn’t believe everyone from the very start.

Antes de conocerte, daba por sentado que todos los que me rodeaban eran honestos y no tenían malas intenciones.

Pero después de ti, me di cuenta de que existen personas malas a las que les gusta fingir que son algo que no son. Hay gente que disfruta jugando con los demás y que disfruta haciendo desgraciados a los demás. Tú eres una de esas personas.

If it weren’t for you, I would never have learned that I should never put so much love, effort and patience into someone who doesn’t do the same for me.

If it weren’t for you, I would never have known what it is that I don’t want from life.

If it weren’t for you, I would have spent the rest of my life without knowing what true love is all about.

If it weren’t for you, I would never he aprendido a quererme. When you left, I had this enormous amount of love I didn’t know what to do with.

Seguí buscando a alguien a quien dar mi amor, hasta que me di cuenta de que primero tenía que dármelo a mí misma, antes de amar a nadie más.

Así que, gracias por entrar en mi vida. Pero aún más, gracias por dejarla. Y thank you for teaching me a lesson I’d never have learned otherwise.