Burning Bridges

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I have always been the sort of person who had a relationship end would attempt a friendship of some sort with that ex, because of our history together. But there comes a time with certain individuals where you just can't do that....they may be a thorn in your side...or bring you down...or try to make you feel guilty about the breakup. I have had to burn a bridge that spanned six years...I thought he was the one...that we would spend the rest of our lives together....but all along (in hindsight) he was just bringing my life down...seven months ago he dumped me, and I was at first devestated...I thought I had lost my soulmate. Things are clear to me now...I have opened my eyes...love is truly blinding...I see that the relationship was doomed from the get go. If we could see everything in hindsight...or not let love blind us...perhaps we wouldn't feel as if we wasted years of our lives. I am relearning how to not let love blind me...not to ignore red flags from the start. If my partner is wrong for me...I want to know from the beginning...I don't want to be dumped six years later, because I ignored what was there from the start...his insecurity about my situation...his insecurity and indecision about what he wants out of life...his fear of growing up and acting like a man. It was terribly dissappointing at first, but now I see the break-up as the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I don't have to be his friend...I can decide who I want to have in my life...who is good for me...who is bad...I can choose to weed out the toxic people in my life. I had no choice who my parents/siblings/relatives were, but I can choose who my friends are...I can burn those bridges that lead to nowhere. What bridges have you burned, and why?