Throughout This Semester I Have Learned A Lot From Family

Toxic relationships are the most addictive drugs to the heart. They become the air to our lungs and the reason for our hearts to beat. However, realizing how harmful they are and letting go seems to be like taking in the last breath. Officially ending my hazardous relationship of over five years seemed to be detrimental to my life. However, closing the door to my past life opened up new opportunities for me such as learning to love myself, improving myself and connecting with others.

After my semester at UB, I took time to reconnect with family and friends. It was difficult to admit what had been going on. I took repsonsibility for the choices I made which allowed me to be vulnerable enough to stay in such a situation for three

I felt a genuine and intense passion in the epidemiology field, especially in the infectious diseases department, and I felt sure of where things were going. And then I met a man. For the next three years I held on to an emotionally and physically abusive relationship. Throughout my freshmen, sophomore, and junior year I lied about my wellbeing, I sacrificed my studies, I cut off ties with friends that were my only support system, and I made several excuses for a person who did not deserve second chances. I finally found the courage to leave the unhealthy relationship. Unfortunately, I suffered chronic depression during my senior year as a result. There were several days I did not have the energy or willpower to get out of bed. I struggled with an overwhelming guilt of giving up on a person who needed more help than I did. I struggled with my self-esteem, and many days I lost motivation to push myself. I grew quite angry that I wasted years my family sacrificed for. I let them down and I could not forgive myself for that. But slowly I started to realize that the person I let down the most was myself. I was once a person with ambition, and goals and somewhere between trying to make someone else happy I lost myself. I wish I could say that i pulled myself together, that I suddenly became happy, or that I pulled all my grades up but I had rough days, weeks, and sometimes bad months. Luckily

For the purpose of this essay I will be using a current client, so to hide his identity he will be called Mr. A. Mr. A is a young male who is currently having difficulties in being able to partake in long term relationships with females. He finds it difficult to commit because he is afraid of getting hurt. He therefore just sleeps with many different women keeping his emotions at bay. Mr. A however does want to have a relationship and “stop messing with girls, and treat them in the same way that I want to be treated”. Mr. A says he has

Junior year, my life had taken a turn for the worse and barreled down that road until it hit a dead end. However, one event had sparked my downfall. One experience had directly impacted all the remaining aspects of my life. Junior year, I broke up with my beautiful girlfriend of two years, and in response,

The argument resulted in us breaking up our four month relationship. After the argument was over, I realize five communication barriers that took placed through-out our argument.

In this relationship, I felt like I couldn’t speak my mind; if I did, I felt like I would get punished for it in one way or another. I walked on eggshells and quickly learned to tiptoe around issues or concerns within our relationship. I felt like my feelings, thoughts, and opinions were never validated, no matter how I tried to communicate; conversations, texts, letters, I tried everything but I was still brushed off most of the time and never had his undivided attention, no matter how important the issue was to me. I couldn’t talk about my feelings, if I were to bring up something regarding how I felt, he would quickly become upset and this would manifest itself in many different ways, whether he’d be combative, judgmental, dismissive, frighteningly aggressive, or

Betrayal is something that many people encounter. John Gottman explains, “I believe that by understanding the dynamics of trust and betrayal, we can work to make relationships more trusting. But more than that we can help people become more trustworthy” (Gottman, 2011). To explain, “…the definition of betrayal involves the act of someone violating your trust in them” (Monica A. Frank, 2004). Thus, in order for me to move past all of the betrayals bestowed to me from my marriage, I need to learn to trust people again. After I was married, there were countless times that I felt like my husband was betraying me. Such as the times my husband, at the time, would leave with his best friend on several Saturdays in a row, to give assistance

Various people struggle with relationships within their family, friends, and significant others, especially during the young adult years. Struggles within a relationship can lead to a deep depression and can cause suicide among teens.The need for human belonging can be so intense that a person will begin to do things that, on the contrary, they never would have before, and which that is completely out of character for them. Relationships can acquire difficulties that people may never have the ability to detect coming. These difficulties can include: being in an abusive relationship, not feeling appreciated, or going through breakups. When most consider relationship struggles they expect a significant other, regardless, there are bountiful types

As I look back at those times, I’m grateful to have learned to stand up for myself and others, and I now know that cutting off relationships do not always mean that you’ve failed at holding it. I’ve learned to recognize harmful relationships and how to handle it so that what happened to me last year would not be as severe in the future. Furthermore, I have learned to forgive and continue to love after everything that has happened, as the girl and I are now mutuals and my other friends have been kind to her as

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

Communication is the number one key to a good relationship. When there is no communication between both parties involved in the relationship, that is when the relationship fails whether it is a man and a woman, or a child trying to divorce his/her parents or friends cutting their ties forever.

this point. This is what determines wether your ready to take the step into entering a relationship. Every point in ones life is a learning experience. Treating past relationships as learning experiences help to better your understanding of what your really looking to gain out of future relationships. The following paragraphs discuss a story of my past. This story revolves around a relationship taking place at a negative point in my life. So my lesson

For the application project, I decided that I would like to discuss my relationship with my current roommate. This relationship is very important to me because we are living together for the rest of the remaining academic year. Initally, I was supposed to live with one of my very close friends, but she got a last minute overseas study abroad scholarship. For this reason, I had to find a last minute roommate. All my friends had already made living arrangements, which forced me to find a random roommate through the University of Cincinnati housing system. Since she was a random roommate, I knew it was going to be difficult for me as I knew nothing about her. Upon living with her, we had numerous issues with how we lived together but were never spoken about. I then spent the first 2 months trying to get to know her better to avoid any future issues that we were having since we started to live together.

My inspiration for this essay comes from my home and family life. Since I was a little girl we’ve had dogs in our home. Our dogs have always been my friends as long as I can remember. Short nosed breeds are my personal favorites, their looks and sounds, health risks and care & training.