The Importance Of Relationships In High School

In my eighth grade, there were tons of people who were in a relationship with each other, and that was actually quite astonishing being that there were only 50 students in my grade. I soon came to realize how many of these people genuinely seem to have little to no idea on how a relationship works. I can not rightfully speak about how to be an ideal boyfriend or anything but I can have knowledge on the things that people should not do. From my experience, there was a new girl in our grade and after a month she dated this one guy. The teenage life is complicated yet questionable. The guy simply asked the new girl to date her, as a joke, and the girl actually accepted it. Of course, this was absurd and I was completely dubious of their relationship as the guy just didn’t seem to have true feelings for the girl and vice versa. The guy simply did it out of the pleasure of having a girlfriend and seeming part of the teen culture of dating. Two weeks after dating, the couple decided to break up and it seemed normal and both really had any regret about the breakup since both had

I’m sure many have shared stories of their high school experiences and can relate when I say those four years have taught me many lessons. During this time, I’d come face to face with the fraudulent friendships, temporary romances, and other high school dramas that my parents once warned me about—those of which I simply brushed off as myths. It wasn’t the 90’s anymore— times have changed and people are different—or at least, that’s what I thought.

In middle school I met a girl who quickly became my best friend. After we met, we did nearly everything together. We were simply incepreable. We continued to be very close all the way up into junior year of high school. This is when she met and started dating one of the senior boys from our school. She had always had a thing for "bad boys" and this boy was a picture perfect representation of one. After she started seeing him more, I started seeing her less and less. The boy she was dating apparently disliked me; a lot. He began to take control of everything in her life. When she came to lunch everyday at school, she would sit with me and a group of my friends and tell us how he would hit

Only two percent of high school relationships work out through college… underclassman do not see this, and think that that small percentage is much higher, undeniably believing that they will be with their lover forever. They don’t have the real-life experiences. The younger freshman think that their love-life will be like the movies and “happy ending” storybooks that they have been brought up with all their lives. In the end, when your “high school lover” leaves you and you don’t know what to do with your life, you can turn towards your friends, who for the majority of the time, with be there to help you cope through the heartbreak.

A common misconception amongst teens is that love is simply saying “I love you” or buying gifts for their partners. However, our generation does not understand the the complexity of the depths of love. There’s reason to believe that teenagers can not experience true romantic feelings for one another, let alone love. Love has so many components to it that adolescents do not comprehend. True romantic feelings have depth and require a better understanding, which teens do not have.

According to a survey of over 4,900 high school students, 61% of teens believe that they have been "in love." While passions are known to lead people astray, numbers do not lie. A measly 2% of marriages are between high school sweethearts.

Most of the time romantic experiences during our adolescence are short and superficial and at times this assumption would be true. Duration of romantic experience during the adolescence time are usually short and do not end up in a serious long-term relationship. However, this is not always the case. These types of relationship play a major role in adolescence lives. (Eder, 1993; Thompson 1994). Our lives are influenced by our friendships, schools and parents, however relationships play major role and leave us with positive or negative emotions. (Wilson-Shockey, 1995). Thus, relationship play major role in shaping us during the adolescence stage in our lives.

As dulcet sounding a perfect relationship is, having obstacles is important in every relationship, especially in an adolescent relationship because every heartbreak, every vulnerable point is setting a foundation for a better oncoming relationship (complex). Webster dictionary describes heartbreaks as “crushing grief, anguish, or distress”, this time of crisis gives the couple time to grow and gain strength (complex)(New York Times 3). As dissembling as it sounds, heartbreaks can lead to comfortability; one can feel comforted knowing that that person was able to overcome that setback and that one is capable of bouncing back from an intense sadness(complex). This lessons that is learned from relationships in the adolescent years, can carry over

During all the time we had together, we both started hanging out a lot in school, with our mutual group of friends. He was so easy to talk to, fun to be around, and if the conversation died down, it wasn't a silence I felt needed to be filled. We would listen to music, laugh, eat lunch, go on hikes and walk each other to class. By this time we had become a typical high school "couple." I don’t think either of us could have guessed how far our relationship would go. After a few months it was quite clear that we in fact, did love each

In today’s high schools, everything seems to revolve around having a boyfriend or girlfriend. Too many are teenagers getting caught up in the drama of the dating world and forgetting to focus on their futures. The distraction of relationship drama causes teenagers to focus less on things like school. This in turn will cause their grades to suffer. Lower grades mean a smaller chance of getting accepted into colleges, or receiving scholarships. Another problem is the emotional impacts of an ugly breakup. Impacts are long lasting at any age, but especially so in high school. This is because students are still developing. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that affected teens

Jefferson Bethke believes "Dating with no intent to marry is like going to the grocery store with no money. You either leave unhappy or take something that isn't yours." Dating can positively affect someone's high school because if they do not show up to school regularly they would probably show up to school more to see the person he is dating. It can also negativity affect someone's high school by creating a lot of drama. When my son starts dating, he needs to follow my dating rules.

Romantic relationships are one of the defining features of adolescence with nearly 50% of youth in late adolescence currently in relationships (Zimmer-Gembeck, Hughes, Kelly, & Connolly, 2012). Research on adolescent romantic relationships indicates that they are important to youth across the globe in terms of social and emotional development and creating a foundation for intimacy in adulthood (Connolly, Friedlander, Pepler, Craig, & Laporte, 2010). However, adolescent dating also presents a range of challenges that youth have limited experience with, including solving conflict with the opposite sex, intimacy pressures, and the struggle of dividing attention between a partner, friends and family. Unfortunately, many adolescent relationships

When people hear the term “loving” the first thing that pops into their minds is a relationship. Essentially, they aren’t wrong, but relationships don’t have to be solely romantic. Acting as a loving person doesn’t have to be tied to a romantic connotation, in fact, the act of becoming a loving individual as a Prep grad at grad usually centers around being a loving individual in the eyes of friends, family, and most importantly, loving yourself. Much of the confusion surrounding the high-school setting that plagues incoming freshman year after year is learning how to act in front of a relatively new community. At least for me, the majority of depictions of high-school life on popular mediums such as television shows and movies horrified me as a child. High-school seemed like an environment filled with rampant drug use, drinking, and unwarranted fighting about seemingly useless things. I specifically remember staying up late one night while I was in sixth grade and watching the Owen Wilson movie, “Drillbit Taylor” in which three bullied students in high-school hired a body guard in order to protect themselves from other students. This movie completely terrified me as I wondered if I too would be physically bullied for no reason in high-school. Now of course most of the things depicted in mainstream media about high-schools are

The thought of dating in high school on television is displayed as an important high school experience; realistically, it is not. In various high school based television shows and movies, the plot is mainly based on two characters who are bound to fall in love. Situations lead up for them to have conflict, but at the end they end up together. The well-known movie High School Musical is a prime example. The two main characters Troy and Gabriella were meant to be forevermore. Since the day they met singing at a karaoke party, they were intended to be with each other. They were the audience’s ideal high school couple. When young adolescents see depictions of relationships on the television they tend to expect it when they get to high school. It is perceived as a major role in a student’s life. Meanwhile, in reality dating in high school is not an important

Have you ever felt so in love with someone that you never want to lose sight of him or her? Have you ever cried for that someone for weeks in your bathroom or in your bedroom with the music in max volume so that your parents cannot hear you? If yes, then you can relate to this essay 's topic. If no, then get ready to learn about today 's teenage love depression. Teenage love depression is something very common in our society. Many of our teens are getting into relationships because of various and sometimes odd reasons, and when their relationships fail, they get very depressed. This kind of depression is caused by many