Reflection On My Relationship

Reflecting on my past relationship makes me understand how important it is to love you first before anything else. Relationship is connection between two individuals who physically and emotionally attracted to each other. Every relationship begins with a friendship and eventually grows into something bigger. My ex and I knew each other since our days back in middle school when were naïve to love and the concepts of being boyfriend and girlfriend. I met her the first day of our last year in middle school when I walk into our social sciences class. As I approach my seat I couldn’t gather my thoughts as to how beautiful this young lady as. I’m telling you she was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen with the exceptions of my mother. Being …show more content…
This concept is when people are attracted to those make them put in extra work to obtain their affection. These people are called “hard-to-get”(pg 68). When we got to college everything was completely different, there were so many beautiful ladies it was difficult for me to keep my eyes on one. By Freshman year my Ex and I were best friends who knew everything about each other. When I say everything, I absolutely mean everything; from who we slept with to each other parents. Furthermore, by sophomore year, things became to change between us, I started having a different type of feeling toward her due to how her exes treated her. I was protective of her, I had difficulties sitting there and watching someone I care about being anything less then great. It was tough pill to sorrow. This lady understood that we had something special going friendship wise, by her being a good friend she wasn 't in favor of us crossing over to the side that might potentially damage our friendship. She became to play hard to get to see if I could withstand her “try to get me” bootcamp. Save to say it wasn 't the toughest task knew to man. I knew this woman like the back of my hands, I know what makes her happy and what bring out her angry side. When we started dating, everything was moving smoothly, we function like normal couples. There were limited amount of negativity, I wanted to treat my lady like the princess she was …show more content…
According to our textbook, “affection is both a need and emotion” (pg 161). Keyword is “need”, my ex needed affection but it was a different kind of affection. She wasn 't the type that indose PDA mainly because her exes treated her like she wasn 't worthy and all they wanted was sex. I grew up differently from most, my mother taught me to treat people how I wanted to be treated. I was proud to present her as my lady to let others know she was mine and no more could have her. I was young, immature and I only knew one way of showing affection to my lady. But it just happen to lack her