Goodbye Letter Templates for Every Situation You're Done With
A goodbye letter is a doorway. You are not slamming it. You are walking through it, closing it behind you, and locking it once with a click that they can hear from the other side.
Some goodbyes need warmth. Some need distance. Some need to be one sentence long and the second one would ruin it.
Here are eight goodbye letter templates for the eight most common things people are quietly done with. Steal them. Adapt them. Send them.
1. Goodbye to an ex
[Name],
I have said and un-said everything about us at this point. So this is the one time I will say it and mean it: I am done. I wish you the specific kind of peace that requires you to leave me out of it.
Please do not reply. There is nothing left to answer.
[Your Name]
2. Goodbye to a friend who ghosted
[Name],
I noticed you left. It took me a while to admit it, because friendship is not supposed to end the way a subscription does. But it did.
I am not chasing an explanation. I am not offering a fight. I just wanted to say, out loud, that the seat is empty and I am moving on. Take care of yourself.
[Your Name]
3. Goodbye to a toxic job
To whom it may concern,
Please accept this as my formal resignation, effective immediately. I am not going to itemize the reasons. Everyone reading this knows them.
I wish the team the specific kind of luck it will take to fix what needs fixing here. I will hand off my active projects in writing today.
[Your Name]
4. Goodbye to a roommate
[Name],
I am moving out at the end of the month. This is not up for negotiation. I have paid through the lease and I will leave the place cleaner than I found it, which, if we are honest, was not a high bar.
I wish you the exact kind of next roommate you have earned. Please leave a forwarding address with the landlord, not me.
[Your Name]
5. Goodbye to a situationship
[Name],
I know we never called this anything. That is exactly why this is easy to end. I am stepping out. No hard feelings, no long conversation, no "let us talk about it."
Good luck out there. Do not soft launch me.
[Your Name]
6. Goodbye to the gym you never attend
To the membership team,
Please cancel my membership, effective immediately. I have not seen the inside of your building since a specific Tuesday in 2023, and my checking account and I have discussed it at length.
No hard feelings. It was me. It has always been me.
[Your Name]
7. Goodbye to a group chat
Hey everyone,
I am leaving the chat. Not out of drama. Not out of any single thing anyone said. My phone just cannot support this many opinions per day anymore.
I love you. I will still text individually. Please do not add me back "for one thing," because there is never just one thing.
[Your Name]
8. Goodbye to a city you are leaving
Dear [City],
You were an era. You were also, at times, a mistake. I outgrew a version of myself here that I did not think I would survive, and somehow I did, mostly.
Thank you for the apartment I hated, the friends I did not deserve, and the winters I will never miss. I am going now. Do not text.
[Your Name]
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