The Break-Up In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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This is a story about a boy and a girl. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, have great times, and it all ends Romeo and Juliet style. Well something like that, but my story focuses more on the end of our typical teenage relationship, the break up. The sad, gushy part that no one ever wants to talk about, but withholds so much learning material. The part that truly holds the juiciest information and is the one that really changes a person. However, to really understand the lesson you have to know the background. It all started the summer after my freshman year. I met him through mutual friends who thought we would be perfect for each other. I didn’t even know his name but I knew right away that they were right. We instantly connected over every little thing and had nearly the same personalities. We spent endless days together, learning more and more about each other, falling in love. We would do everything imaginable together, becoming the same person nearly. We were meant to be.
Two years later and things began to change. We would fight over every little thing, go hours or sometimes days without talking, and grew to hate each other. We joked saying that it felt like a married relationship.
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Having to move on is what scares most, having to restart from the beginning, go back out on the market, meet new people. The breakup from my relationship taught me how to be independent, how to do everything by myself and not rely on someone else. It taught me that really, what’s meant to be will be. I spent 2 years of my life trying to force something where fate tried so hard to show me that it was not meant to be, that this was not the relationship that I am meant to spend my entire life in. Breakups taught me that denial is a dead end. Once we both realized the truth behind our relationship, that we need to and we’re actually cutting the thick rope tying us together, we became

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