"You deserve better." But I wanted you to be better. The truth is, I didn't want someone better. I wanted you to be better. I didn't need someone perfect — I just needed you to try a little harder and show me that I mattered. I wasn't looking for someone new. I was hoping you would grow into the person who could love me the way I needed to be loved. I wanted you to understand me, to hear me when I was hurting, to stop doing the things that made me hurt. I never wanted to change you. I just wanted you to want to change for us — not because I asked, but because you didn't want to lose me. You gave up when all I ever wanted was for you to fight for me. And that's the part that still hurts. I didn't want someone better. I just wanted you to be better.