Sad goodbye letters facilitate personal growth by serving as emotional outlets. They can help process and accept the end of a relationship, facilitating healing over time. Author and blogger Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson reveals, “I first realized I had been in love with the idea of Dean (the boyfriend) after he broke up with me over the phone. He went off with someone else while I was out of the country on a holiday I’d planned before I hooked up with him. So, a few weeks after the dreaded phone call (which led to the breakup), I decided to write him a goodbye letter so that I could start to let him go. It was an exercise in catharsis (i).”