Dear someone,

This letter is to inform you that I am proceeding with caution where we are concerned.  Today something happened that gave me that same feeling I once had, and I didn’t like it, not one bit.  I want to learn to trust you but I will not make the same mistake twice.  I trusted you once and you let me down.  I trusted you again and you continued to hurt me. 

 Do not think that anything is a guarantee.  Do not, by any means, think that me in your life again will happen.  It hasn’t even been a week and already I’m starting to wonder if talking to you again was ever the right choice.  “We,” in all senses of the word, are on thin ice; one tiny crack and I am running away, and for good. 

This is all a “by chance” thing.  If I’m still able to get these feelings of “caution,” I’m still able to push it as far away as humanly possible.

Somehow I feel let down because I feel like I somehow believed what you said.  Then I realized you probably said the same thing to your last girlfriend, and you do so because you don’t want to be alone in between relationships.  If that’s the case (and be honest with yourself), then please leave me alone.  I do not want to be part of your “back up” plan.  I will not ever be that.  Honestly, if you’re still out doing that and you just want me there so you don’t feel lonely, just leave me alone.  Leave me be.  I’m fine where I am; don’t go rocking my boat.

In the meantime, I will be avoiding you for a while.  Don’t bother.  This was probably a bad idea anyway.

Goodbye,

The One Who Once Trusted