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    Katie
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    Basically, I was getting my life together. I put everything aside (school, hobbies, everything) to get my life together. I was very unhappy. I was a past straight-A-student who did ANYTHING to get an A in the class, but I am a senior in high school now and have put school second on my priority list as I need to focus on my mental health.  I used to be captain of a club, was on speech and debate, did community service every tuesday, wednesday, and friday. I stopped doing all that so I could focus on my mental health. First I started with my boyfriend. I wanted to make our relationship good and healthy. Our relationship was never good but I LOVED HIM. We always fought, were on and off, horrible. I promised to dedicate my senior year of high school to fixing our relationship because I knew if we had a good relationship, we would both be more happy (making myself a happier person overall). At first I simply just…. paid more attention to him, dedicated more of my time to him, fought for him at any moment possible. This lasted for 3 months. Before our fights got worse and worse. So then I decided… I would try one last thing before I left. I started to… try to put him in his place. I told him straight up “hey I am not going to have this horrible, unhealthy relationship in 2018. I’m sorry, I was there for you but I can’t continue. The only way I’d stay is if you’d change but you never changed.” This is when he begged me and I took him back and HE CHANGED. He changed a little. He became more attentive to my feelings, he started LISTENING to me, he began to give me what I wanted. We fought a little here and there but we were going up. Then today…. it all went down. He saw something in my phone. I don’t really know how to explain what he saw. Basically if you have an instagram you may have a finsta. everyone in my grade has a finsta and its just a big fun thing. On finsta, somebody posted a picture saying “like this picture and I will give you a name. then you have to comment how drunk you’d have to be to hookup with them” and I liked it. I didn’t think it was a big deal as people with boyfriends/girlfriends were liking it as well. I even asked my friends… I was like “do you think its weird that people with boyfriends/girlfriends are liking the picture even though it has to do with hooking up with somebody?” and my friends were like “nah its theoretical”

     

    Long story short, he saw it and flipped. He told me he’s done. He isn’t the nicest guy. If a nice guy saw that and had a problem, maybe they’d express dislike and we’d work it out. Maybe if it was that bad, we’d break up civilly. But my boyfriend straight up told me “if you are going to do this, then I am going to hook up with girls” and that “we are over” and “its done” and everything. I started crying because I was extremely sad. Like seriously F my life. All I want was for this guy to love me and be happy with me. I was hysterical. This happened around 1 pm, its almost 8 pm where I live and I am still crying. Why? I am so stupid. I should have known it wasn’t going to work out! I stuck around after every time he treated me bad and now I do something, I make a mistake and its over for me. Now I am in a position where I am being broken up with. At least, before I had the option to take him back but now I am just broken up with. Don’t get me wrong, this has happened before in our relationship. In the past, I would fight so hard for him to forgive me now I do not have the energy. So I guess… the relationship is actually over now and there is nothing more I can do. But it HURTS so bad. Like, its the middle of JANUARY. January is by far one of the worst months. I am always depressed in January I absolutely hate January. I don’t even know what I am saying anymore but wow my life sucks.

     

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    #185563
    Eliana
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    Hi Katie,

    I’m sorry you are going through this. I know things look bad right now, the sadness, depression, frustration, loneliness, etc..but this does in any way mean you are “stupid”. Please don’t call yourself these degrading names. You were a straight A student and had a terrific life. Don’t let one bad chapter, mean a bad life. Not to sound like a cliche, but “this too shall pass”. Right now, just take the time to focus on you. You don’t need a man in your life to make you happy, and you are not responsible for someone else’s happiness, only they are. If you take “responsibility” and say “I have to be this great girlfriend, never make a mistake, always make him happy, you will make yourself miserable, as no one can live up to that.

    There is a quote I like to use because it is so true..”never chase/beg for love, affection or attention, if it is not given freely, it is not worth having”. You and your boyfriend are very young and you both are bound to make mistakes, no relationship will ever be perfect, I am sure he made his share of mistakes too. I believe his response to your Instagram game was blown way out of proportion, and he should have had a mature discussion with you about it, instead of having a knee jerk reaction and blowing up and suddenly breaking things off. I would leave him alone to settle down for a few weeks, and he will I’m sure have regrets about his innapropriate behavior, but you did nothing wrong, so please don’t blame yourself. If you do get back together with him, I would work on your communication with him, and conflict resolution skills, so you are talking to each other, instead of 1st each other and to avoid the bickering, yelling, anger. To behave more like a living couple to support each other. If this can’t be done, and he is still acting and behaving aggressively and innapropriate, I would re-evaluate the relationship. But remember, you were happy and content before him, and you can be happy without him. You can’t depend on someone to make you happy. Too many women seem they always “need” a man in their lives to “be happy” but happiness does not come from outside sources. x

    Y

     

    #185571
    Anonymous
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    Dear Katie:

    You have the word “stupid” in the title of your thread. I like this definition of stupid: “Stupid is as stupid does”. When we behave ineffectively, when we don’t learn and change our behavior accordingly, we are stupid. I think we are all stupid in one way or another, and so…. you have the opportunity to learn, to un-stupify yourself, so to speak. You are only in High School- my goodness, how wise you can be in your twenties, if you learn and continue to learn.

    I hope you devote yourself to be a good student inside and outside the classroom.

    January can be a good month, by the way. I hope you feel better soon!

    anita

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