BREAKUPS
... you break upBY MERRITT ANDERSON ON FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Relationships. Many people have different opinions of relationships and how real they are in high school. Some believe you can fall in love and be in a happy, serious relationship as young as freshman year, and others think that people who think they’ve found a serious relationship when they are still in their teens have lost their minds. There is one thing about high school relationships that everyone can agree on, though...when they end, it is always awkward.
Here at Rose, there are plenty of relationships and plenty of ex-relationships. Obviously this is a sensitive topic for many people, and the material is so awkward that everyone that was interviewed asked not to be named in this article. M First comes the breakup. Many people in relationships think that tears are just too much to handle, and especially when only one of them is crying. “Having to see a girl cry is the worst,” said two seniors about breaking up with their now, ex-girlfriends. “My best friends being upstairs and listening to the whole thing was really awkward,” one of the boys continued. Another awkward aspect of a break up is the fact that usually, its only one person who truly wants it to end. “[My boyfriend] still wanted to be together, so breaking up with him was really awkward,” said a junior girl about her ex that is now in college. “I was just like, why would I expect you to be faithful in college when you hooked up with some [girl] here?” “[My breakup] was awkward because my girlfriend just broke up with me, and I didn’t see it coming,” said a junior boy who was on, what some would say, the more tough side of the breakup. “Breakups are a [brat],” one junior girl said. “How do you go from a person being your everything, to being forced to look at them as nothing in a matter of minutes?” “After my boyfriend and I broke up, I asked him if he still wanted to go to Sadie Hawkins and he said no...that was awkward,” said a freshman girl after her recent breakup. Some people say that the actual breakup is not even the most awkward part of a breakup. They believe that it is after the matter that calls for the worst. “The most awkward thing [to go through] after we broke up was seeing [my ex] at the next social event we both went to,” a senior boy said. “I had to put on my MMA gloves and dodge a few swings, and some of them I couldn’t dodge.” “It is really awkward when my ex sub-tweets me, because I know she knows I see it,” another boy said. “Whenever I catch her staring at me it’s really weird. I just try not to look.” “My ex sits right behind me in class,” a freshman said. “Having to see my ex at school every day is what makes it the most akward,” a senior said. “She parks right beside me, so that doesn’t really help.” Although, another girl thought there was a whole different kind of awkward at hand. “It was more awkward between me and the girl he cheated on me with than it was with him,” a junior girl said. “It was just like, you lied to my face multiply times and I gave you ample opportunities to tell the truth and you didn’t.” Another boy had some of the same hard feelings towards his ex as well. “It was awkward when she got close with one of my close friends,” he said. Many high schoolers have their horror stories of a first heart break or first tough break up. The average person would argue that high school is the place that you are supposed to experience many firsts, and oh you do. Breakups are a hard first that everyone has to learn. Is it more awkward breaking up, or dealing with it after? HTML Comment Box is loading comments...
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