Chapters Affecting People With Low Self-Esteem

After reading the required chapters for this post, there was a part from chapter 10 that really stood out to me. It was when they were talking about ostracism. This is when you often get the “silent treatment” in your relationship and get ignored on purposes. I had no idea there was an actual term for when this happens and found it to be really interesting to read about and see how it affects people differently. Part of the reason I think this was so interesting to me is because it has happened to me before and I was confused as to why it was happening. It talked about how people with high self-esteem tend to just blow this off and don’t put up with this type of behavior, while people with low self-esteem wonder what they did to cause this or try to see how they can fix it to make the relationship better. Once I read this part about this topic, it made me feel good about myself and just proves that I made the right decision in my past relationship. I would have been considered someone with high self-esteem and didn’t care what I could do to fix this, I had enough and I didn’t need this anymore. It was that moment I knew I …show more content…
I can remember a time during my high school days were my friends give me the cold shoulder treatment and I don’t know why or what I did. Often times I would just blow them off and in a day or two they would be over themselves and it would go back to how it used to be. However, there was one time were it went on for several days and I knew this was it. I had had enough of being treated like I didn’t exist and knew it was time for a change. At that moment I decided to give them a dose of their own medicine and stopped talking to them and made new friends. They didn’t like that very much and tried getting my back as a friend, but I knew enough was enough and looking back it was one of the best choices I made during high