Having a Healthy Relationship
Essay by Marry • October 1, 2011 • Essay • 707 Words (3 Pages) • 1,866 Views
Having a Healthy Relationship
A healthy relationship is when two people understand each other.
Having a healthy relationship to me is very important. I think having a healthy relationship is a good way to build up your friendships.
Ever since I moved to Hempstead, in the year 2000, I had some horrible trust issues, due to the fact that I was meeting new people that I hadn't grown up with. It took me nearly two and a half months to become friends with Jacqueline; who is still known today as my best friend for life.
Jacqueline and I met when I was walking home one day and I was nearly to my house until I had an asthma attack, but thanks to Jacqueline she bought me straight into my house where my mother had the nebulizer. All I could do was to be thankful that she was their when I had my asthma attack. But that's how I learned to trust, and respect Jackie today.
Throughout the years Jacqueline and I became best friends, but once we hit fifth grade I felt a mixture of hurt a betrayal from my only best friend Jacqueline, because she was hanging out with this girl named Patricia more than me. We even managed to have our first fight because I was being a bit envious of Patricia. But I knew Jacqueline needed more friends than just me and so I decided to just let her do what she wanted because I trusted her. I knew Jacqueline would have never replaced me as her best friend.
I stopped my jealousness and went back to being my regular self. I soon apologized to both Jacqueline and Patricia for being so stupid to think that Jacqueline would trade our best friendship to be best friends with Patricia. So Pat, Jacqueline and I all became even closer.
Two years had passed and now I'm in my seventh year of middle school. This is where my trust issues started up again because going through elementary school and all the way up to middle school I was picked on because I was smart, and I loved to read, and because I was born with a cleft lip. I didn't know why people would pick on me, I mean I never did anything to them I was always a quiet and shy person. I would occasionally speak my mind when it was necessary. But other than that I was just any normal shy student that never wanted to get involved with one of the wrong crowds.
In seventh grade I met a girl named Princess. I thought she was a nice person but man could she get greedy when it comes to food. Whenever I would have food for either breakfast or lunch she would just take it and I would never have anything to eat. I never liked school lunch so my mom would always pack me either a turkey sandwich with a Kool-Aid jammers drink, and some nice fruit. Or she would pack me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I loved to eat so much.
I never thought nothing of it when Princess would just
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