Tell us about your crush. Why do you like them?

I can talk about my old crush, who later became my boyfriend, before he broke up with me.
Honestly, I still love him, even though we’ve had zero contact since he left me.

Where to even start with him...
He was kind, supportive, and patient, very genuinely so, but not naive.
Quite the opposite, actually.
He was intelligent, and honestly way wiser than he should’ve been for his age.
He was generally a calm and fairly quiet sort.
Not really introverted, but not an extrovert either.
More than that, he had this sort of... aura about him that just made him relaxing and calming to be around.
He also had a pretty dry sense of humor, which I absolutely love, and was one of the things we initially connected because of.

I really wasn’t a good person when I was with him. I’m still not now, but I was worse before.
I had garbage social skills and extremely few friends, and to put it bluntly, I was an asshole.
Looking back, my attitude was most likely a product of my isolation, among other factors.
But he was inexplicably nice to me, like most people generally weren’t.
Typically people either outright disliked me or had no desire to associate with me (justifiably so in both cases.)

He really was a fantastic person in every sense of the word. Even though I miss him immensely, I don’t hold any sort of resentment towards him for leaving me.
Someone like me has no right to think anything negative about someone like him.
More than that, I don’t blame him for leaving.
He deserved better than me. Frankly, I’m just thankful for the years I had with him.
Even the most patient people can only stomach being that close to me for so long.

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