Relationship Essay: Different Types Of Relationships?

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Relationships When it comes to any types of relationships I’m like a deer in headlights. I am never able to tell when someone wants to be my friend or if they’re interested in me until they just say it. I can count all my relationships on one hand, but that doesn’t mean they ended on good terms. There are many types of relationships such as acquaintances, friends, and close friends/ intimate. An acquaintance is someone recognized by sight or someone known, though not intimately. We all make acquaintances at school or work. When I first started work at Logan’s I met everyone over the course of a week. I later saw some of them at abac because we had some of the same classes and I talked to them and I would say “Hey, how are you? That’s great …show more content…

They’re never at fault for anything. They hurt you and then pretend that they had “no idea” what they did was going to make you upset. You’re made to feel guilty for any and everything that’s going on. They make you feel judge about everything that sets you apart from being an “average Joe”. You always seem to be competing for their attention and they make the friendship completely one sided and you’re sure they wouldn’t notice if you gave up on the friendship completely. My old friend Ulyssa didn’t seem like a bad friend at first because we helped each other out through all of our problems no matter what it was. We were always together or always planned to hang out when we weren’t busy and sometimes it would be awhile before we actually hung out, but when we did we caught up on everything we missed out on. It wasn’t until recently I realized our friendship had changed things seemed to off about her. I told her I needed some advice about what I should do about school and work, but she told me she didn’t knoe then asked me if my place of work was hiring. I was shocked she asked that when I needed her advice that’s when it started to take a turn for the worst. She final found a job at the same Hispanic store I worked at also that was close to home and never replied back to any of my text asking if she wanted to hang …show more content…

My boyfriend eric and I have been dating for almost two years next march. We were bestfriends for a long time and I had no idea he liked me because he never told me. Then once I found out he did like me I was scared I tried avoiding him every chance I got I felt so bad doing that, but no one was ever interested in me and when I found out he was I thought it would be best if I just avoided him so I wouldn’t get hurt. He soon caught on, but he kept trying he didn’t care that I was avoiding him. Once he finally admitted that he like me I told him we could only be friends because I didn’t see him like that, this coutined for two whole years. He invited me to the movies on march 29, 2015 we were watching insurgent and at the end of the movie he finally asked me to be his girlfriend. I can remember very clearly my hands were sweaty, my heart wanted to burst, and I was scared to say yes but, said yes because something told me he wasn’t like the other guys who dated me for a bet and then cheated on me. To this day im so glad I said yes because im truly in love with this

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