October 22, 2008
He died when I was only 16 years old….
Submitted by: Raeker
Submitted by: Raeker
I have a sick feeling inside. Sometimes I think that my relationship with you is ending. I’m not perfect, but I am a loving wife. I wanted to ask you if you are leaving me. I didn’t.
Submitted by: Trudy
I regret the pain your affair caused me and our children, and yes–her too. As a single mother, she was very vulnerable and I forgave her a long time ago. You never told me how unhappy you were or how we could fix things. Given a chance, I’d still walk through fire for you and I regret you lost sight of that, of me, of us and our love to be with her. We are working so hard to put “us” back together, yet I regret your affair as the dark cloud forever changing my truths that I was a good wife, mother, friend, person. I regret your actions and that she never stopped to realize that under differing circumstances, she and I could have been friends. We had, in addition to our love for you, so much in common, including this pain we live with every day.
Submitted by: Spark1111
I’m sorry I got married before I knew where we stood. I’m sorry I complicate your life. I really do want you to be happy…really.
Submitted by: The One Who Can’t Walk Away
I absolutely adore my husband, he’s amazing, has a heart of gold. But I did the unthinkable, and was totally played by an ex and now feel so pathetic. I know it would kill him if he knew. I feel like he and the kids could do so much more in life without me. I am seriously thinking of taking my life all because of not having enough self control to walk away.
Submitted by: Heartbroken
I am sorry that the printer did not work when you needed it. I know that you still love me, but I have done a lot wrong. I am sorry.
Submitted by: Alex
Up here in Alaska we like to kill moose and hang with Joe Six Pack (I can see his house from here). We speak in tongues and wear the same red jacket daily. We agree with Ol’ Dick Cheney about hidden power (bless his failing heart), and we really have to be stopped from polluting the east coast of the USA and frankly the rest of the world with our ignorance. I regret not coming clean sooner.
Submitted by: You Know Who
I regret turning in the way I did that sent my lower back in to a crazed dance of pain. My pride and ego regret having to walk home, like Bowie in the Elephant man, past the faces of my neighbors and the local merchants. Appearing so weak in my world is never a good thing. This walk was as bad as if I shit myself blocks from home. I regret not being superman. I praise painkillers. I have found Johnny Cash’s God.
Submitted by: Quasi
I want Obama to win. I rooted for Hillary because I thought her more likely to deal with the Republicans’ skill at pinpoint attacks and misinformation, with well-placed soundbites, with manipulation, but my heart was always with Obama — my hope. But now I’m just plain worried, even afraid. He’s too good a man to handle McCain’s Machiavellian bullshit, with that army of finger-pointers and bait-and-switchers. He can’t win unless he fights dirty, as dirty as they do, and he’s not up to it. If someone doesn’t shoot him or nail him to a cross, he’ll lose before long, and many of us Americans desperate for a new day for this country, for belief in all we once represented to the global community, for a man of real character, heart, will be hard-pressed to recover.
Submitted by: Al
I regret believing you when you told me you quit drinking! I regret ignoring the little voice inside of me, that kept telling me you were not right for me and you were just an ass! I DO NOT regret lying to you! because if I hadn’t we might still be together now. I regret not listening to the greatest man in the world…Daddy. I regret the 8 months I spent with you. I regret the two nights u came to visit me in ohio. I regret our first, second, third…ALL OF OUR DATES! I regret not telling you that u have a big fat ass! I regret the million texts I sent you. I regret the nights I cried over you (they were just two nights anyway). I regret keeping u as a friend after we broke up…coz I clearly can’t be friends with assholes! I regret telling you that I loved you! because I didn’t. I just felt sorry for your fat ass! I regret not using the F-word with you! I regret the day I met your psycho sister. I regret fighting with my brother because of you. I’m a better person now…I grew up a lot since the last time u saw me. I’m in college and you are not! I have true friends and you only have ur psycho sister and ur ugly father and that’s it. I finally got it out of my chest and I will never think of ur fat ass EVER AGAIN =)
p.s. I feel sorry for the girl ur dating now ! She must be an idiot =)
Submitted by: M
I should have been kinder to you. I don’t like when people are mean to me. I have learned my lesson. Maybe I’ll take you to the Phillies game tonight.
Submitted by: Richie
I let you get away. I’m ok about it. I have a life. I like my job and I have good friends. I saw you last week on Broadway and 75th. You still look good. My sister says I’m crazy.
Submitted by: Lisa
I regret the day I climbed in to your shiny car, that Chevy Impala, that dream machine with the top down. I regret the leather of the seats on my ass and the cramped fantastic love making. I regret the Stones song on the radio right as I showed up to your life’s party. I have no regrets about our son, a great kid, a better man than you.
Submitted by: Casandra
I still think about you everyday, I know it hasn’t been long, but it feels like a long time. I don’t know how we could work things out, it’s all my fault. You were so good to me. Even though you always kept complaining about life. I think it was your way to try to gain more attention from me. The way I treated you was just wrong. It was like you were one more, when in fact, you were the best one ever. I couldn’t see past the looks. Always wishing I was going to find someone better, and deep inside knowing we were not supposed to be together. Maybe I got my expectations too high, wishing for something that doesn’t exist. But I know for a fact that to find someone as good as you or that likes me as much as you do is gonna take forever. It’s so hard to let go. I’m so sorry, it’s been two weeks since we last been together, and I’ve been miserable since. I wish I could be with you always, but I’m afraid I might hurt you again in the future, and the thought of disappointing you and making you sad makes me hate myself. I don’t know what to do, you asked me to leave you alone but it’s so hard to. You are the perfect girl for me in so many ways. Don’t think about me with regrets in your heart, I believe in the possibility of us being together again in the future. I wish we could still hang out, I love being with you. It took me so long to write this down, I better go before I spend another hour here. I love you, girl.
Submitted by: Andre
Jason: I regret never taking that chance in 7th grade. The chance that would have changed my life forever. I always knew I loved you, and when we started messing around I knew that it would only further cement how I felt about you. I have always loved you and I can only hope that you felt the same way. I know we have to wait until things get into place, but I yearn for the day that we can be together. I love you.
Submitted by: Nina
I regret giving away an old pair of shoes that I originally stole out of the back room of the Bitter End about 20 years ago. These were great pointy, low, black-leather shoes that fit me like a glove and I swear enhanced my guitar playing. I gave them to a kid who recently spotted them at my place. He took them to the shoe repair and I swear these shoes have made his blues blasting solos better as well. I’ve wondered if I would know when it was I’d be passing the torch. Christ, I think it’s happened.
Submitted by: Carlisi
At this point in my life I don’t regret much, but I do regret the night I left you in that rainy parking lot in Newark, Delaware to go back to the hotel with that Jamaican man.
As I look back on that night, I realize it was the night that changed everything, and nothing could ever be the same after that night.
It all came down to that club parking lot, drinking rum, and burning with anger when I got into the car with him.
Submitted by: Shaw
I regret not hearing you when you told me what you needed from me. For realizing far too late what that was. I wish I became that person you needed earlier…and I regret I didn’t realize a door was being shut that you’re not capable of re-opening. Worse, I regret falling madly in love and presenting only surface feelings; I kept the depths of what I felt to myself. Six years of a life together and I’ve become a better different person. I’m ready for you finally…but you’ve really moved on to one more deserving. I hate this, I hate the end. I’m ruined, I’ll never feel this whole again. I regret that I’ve arrived too late and I’ll never get another chance. I regret not being able to hang onto the love of my life and now I’m lost.
Submitted by: Doc
You used to always say I had the nicest ass on the block. I did. It was true. Now we’re 50. Now you’re chasing kids half our age. The ones with the kind of ass that makes you crazy. Why the hell did I stay with you? Why did I hook up with you in the first place? Maybe you were Mr. Handsome once, but, baby, odd jobs here and there and a steady once year for a month selling sausage and peppers at the feast is not a living. I regret not looking outside Arthur Avenue for a real man.
Submitted by: Gina Alone Now
Tgggr – Happy 32nd Birthday. Not a day passes that I don’t think about you and that brief time we shared two years ago. I sure miss you. I wish we were still in contact. I know where your new job is, and I could get in touch, but I’m afraid you don’t want me to. Anyway, I hope this is great year for you and your dreams… PS – If you’re reading this, but not Tggr, but you know who I’m talking about, please pass these wishes on…thanks…
Submitted by: Mr Next Life
I could have been a better mother to your children. I wanted to be. They didn’t care for me, fought me, the wicked step-mom, too young for you, and I grew to resent it and them. I should have been better, bigger. I wanted to love them as you do. I wanted our marriage to work. Is it really too late for us?
Submitted by: Anne G
It’s not easy to walk away, but I should have. Now I’ve spent ten good years getting beat up and beating back a mad-woman/girl conqueror hurricane, or better yet as Billy Bragg has written, “a little black cloud in a dress.” Last night was the last chapter. The final word. Later on today I’ll be calling her. It won’t even be face to face. Her things from my place will be boxed up with great ceremony — shipped off far from me, my self-respect, my future. I’m free, Miss! I’ll say loudly, with no regrets about that declaration.
Submitted by: Jackson
e — i’m so sorry for the way it ended. you were so good to me, and i just wanted out. i knew you would find out, and that’s why i did it — i was too chickenshit to say it to your face. oh, and i’m sorry for that night a couple years later… you know the one. i see your relationships now and can’t help blaming myself. what did i do to you?
j — you would have done anything for me, and i loved you too. i just loved him more. i should have been upfront about it from the beginning, that wasn’t fair to you. especially with everything i took from you.
of all the men i’ve cheated on, you guys are the ones i regret. i got mine, though: the only man i’ve ever been faithful to screws around on me.
Submitted by: j
I’m sorry for hurting you instead of showing you the love that you deserve. I’m sorry for intentionally trying to make you feel like shit. I know it’s no excuse, but it’s my defense mechanism from being hurt in the past. Hurt you before you hurt me. When I do hurt you, it hurts me too. I still don’t know why I sometimes do it. I’m also sorry for not trusting you and being jealous even though you have given me no reason to be that way. You poured out your soul to me and all I could do is stare at you, but I do feel for you. You have been there for me whenever I needed you, and now you’re finally tired of being there for me. All this bullshit has caused you to pull away, I just want it back. I wished that I’d been better to you. I wish that I’d put in more effort. I’m sorry, Drew.
Submitted by: Mel
To Chris G in New Jersey: I miss the fact that we were such careless lovers for such a long time. While sex without a condom was such absolute fun and I miss the fact that you were always available and that you did everything I asked when I asked and where I asked, (and to be honest, you’re the only woman I ever had that didn’t care one way or the other, even if there was no condom involved). What do I regret? That I think I gave you AIDS.Submitted by: Anonymous