Featured, Lists

The Stages of a Best Friend Break-Up

Break-ups aren’t exclusively for significant others. Any deep relationship, whether it be a boyfriend, girlfriend, family member or best friend has the risk of ending. And with that ending, is a lot of pain on both ends. A best friend break-up, however, may be even worse than breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend. Although you’re not missing the romantic connection, you miss the endless nights of talking, laughing and crying about only the things you knew about each other. You miss having your go-to. Sometimes it’s about growing apart, others it’s a blowout. Either way, there’s some essential steps that you go through before you feel ok again. 1. The big fight. After a long time of being close as can be, something goes wrong. It’s not a little fight like the small disagreements you had in the past, it’s very different. 2. The fight escalates. Whether you yell and

Featured, Stories

A Letter To The Guy You Used To Be

To The Guy You Used To Be, “I still remember the look on your face Lit through the darkness at 1:58 The words that you whispered For just us to know You told me you loved me So why did you go Away“ I write this thinking about the moments I once treasured with you. I write this thinking about how excited I would be when your name would light up on my phone. I write this thinking about the taste of your lips, the comfort of your touch, the complacency of your stare. That is all gone. Long gone. You are the same guy that you were at one time, but that is in a physical manner. Your amazing personality fell off the face of the Earth. The guy that I once fell for vanished away. The sad thing is that I am still falling for the guy that you

Featured

College Girl Explains Her Lessons Learned From A Bad Break Up

This past September my first real relationship came to an end. And as you can imagine the breakup wasn’t a pleasant one. In fact, the conversation ended with me sobbing hysterically in my bedroom as my ex walked out of the door and out of my life. To this day we haven’t spoken and while I think that there will come a time that we can, I don’t think that day has come.     My ex did not know that I had wanted to break up when I told him that I wanted to talk. Just a few days earlier we had gotten into an ugly fight but afterwards we had smoothed things out and appeared to be no worse for the wear. Unfortunately, that wasn’t true for me. I so desperately wanted to convince myself and him that I could make things work. I felt that after nine