Ultimately, every letter we write to someone else is a letter to ourselves. As one perspective notes, you can "buck" a company or a person, but eventually, you have to look back at the guy staring back from the glass . The most transformative "Dear John" letters are the ones where we stop blaming the "other" and start looking at our own internal biases and the "dissonant tension" within us. How to Write Your Own

Whether you are addressing a past version of yourself, a lost possibility, or a habit you're ready to leave behind, here is a blog post designed to capture that depth. The Quiet Evolution of "Dear John"

What was that person afraid of losing?