Warning: Toxic Relationships Ahead
The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls shows many different hardships Jeannette and her family all went through. One of the most prominent issues throughout the entire book was unhealthy relationships. There were unhealthy relationships between Jeannette’s parents, Maureen and her mom, and different girls at her school. All of these relationships, in one way or another, shaped Jeannette into the person she is today. The Glass Castle gave a lot of insight into Jeannette and her family’s emotionally draining relationships and struggles throughout her life.
Liz* and I became best friends back in fourth grade. We were completely inseparable. The two of us had many of the same interests at the time, but in …show more content…
She was dating Jack*, who is honestly one of the nicest people in the entire world. He was the most genuine, caring person I have ever met. I started to date Will*. Will had always been around in my guy friend group. Brett, Andrew, Collin, Mason and Will were always together and I started to really like him a lot. When we started “talking,” he had been broken up with his ex-girlfriend for a few months. When she got word of this, she was extremely upset, to say the least. She was texting him constantly saying horrible things about me and saying that he needed to choose her because I was “trash”. When Liz got word of this, she went after her and told her that she could not say things like that about me. I still appreciate that Liz did that. Looking back on this, however, it should have been the first red flag not to date …show more content…
They sat me down, pointed out all of the horrible things he had been saying to me to try and control me, and told me that it was completely unhealthy. They said that I needed to get out of the relationship before it escalated even more. I ended up breaking up with him that night. It was very hard for me to do since he was basically my entire world for about nine months. As I said before, I am the type of person who bottles everything up, so I refused to talk to anyone other than Liz about the whole situation. Even getting the courage to talk to Liz about it was not easy for me. I do not like to seem vulnerable or weak, so I find it hard to let go and talk about the situation I was dealing with. When I tried to talk about how I was feeling about everything to her, she said, “You did this to yourself and you need to shut up.” That is exactly what I did; I completely shut up about it to her. This was one of the first major events to the downfall of our friendship.
As soon as Will and I broke up, I immediately called Brett. I needed to apologize to him about how awful I had been for so many months. I also quickly apologized to Collin, Andrew and Mason. They all took me back as their friend and I love each and every one of them so much for that. I am now able to be friends with Will also; I do not hate him for any of the terrible things that he said to me. I know that they were all just a result
The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls shows many different hardships Jeannette and her family all went through. One of the most prominent issues throughout the entire book was unhealthy relationships. There were unhealthy relationships between Jeannette’s parents, Maureen and her mom, and different girls at her school. All of these relationships, in one way or another, shaped Jeannette into the person she is today. The Glass Castle gave a lot of insight into Jeannette and her family’s emotionally draining relationships and struggles throughout her life.
Liz* and I became best friends back in fourth grade. We were completely inseparable. The two of us had many of the same interests at the time, but in …show more content…
She was dating Jack*, who is honestly one of the nicest people in the entire world. He was the most genuine, caring person I have ever met. I started to date Will*. Will had always been around in my guy friend group. Brett, Andrew, Collin, Mason and Will were always together and I started to really like him a lot. When we started “talking,” he had been broken up with his ex-girlfriend for a few months. When she got word of this, she was extremely upset, to say the least. She was texting him constantly saying horrible things about me and saying that he needed to choose her because I was “trash”. When Liz got word of this, she went after her and told her that she could not say things like that about me. I still appreciate that Liz did that. Looking back on this, however, it should have been the first red flag not to date …show more content…
They sat me down, pointed out all of the horrible things he had been saying to me to try and control me, and told me that it was completely unhealthy. They said that I needed to get out of the relationship before it escalated even more. I ended up breaking up with him that night. It was very hard for me to do since he was basically my entire world for about nine months. As I said before, I am the type of person who bottles everything up, so I refused to talk to anyone other than Liz about the whole situation. Even getting the courage to talk to Liz about it was not easy for me. I do not like to seem vulnerable or weak, so I find it hard to let go and talk about the situation I was dealing with. When I tried to talk about how I was feeling about everything to her, she said, “You did this to yourself and you need to shut up.” That is exactly what I did; I completely shut up about it to her. This was one of the first major events to the downfall of our friendship.
As soon as Will and I broke up, I immediately called Brett. I needed to apologize to him about how awful I had been for so many months. I also quickly apologized to Collin, Andrew and Mason. They all took me back as their friend and I love each and every one of them so much for that. I am now able to be friends with Will also; I do not hate him for any of the terrible things that he said to me. I know that they were all just a result