Students trapped in long-term relationships
James Flath, Sports Co-Editor
March 1, 2010
Filed under Opinion
All around BHS people see the same guys and girls holding hands and kissing every morning and afternoon. Yet, those young students do not understand what they are missing out on. The true high school experience does not come from dating the same person for years on end. Students should not be looking for the love of their life or the person who they want to marry. High school is not about searching for your soul mates.
Students should be free from the stress and restrictions of long-term relationships and should only have to worry about school work and the other stresses that come from being a teenager. Students should also be forming the social skills that they need in the future, such as how to interact in a dating scene with the opposite sex, how to start new relationships and how to have fun in a dating scene.
Students who have long-term relationships and think they are in love usually are just staying in their relationships because it is normal to them and it seems right. To be in love at such a young age might be unheard of to most. Love is a complicated process and the teenage mind has troubles understanding it. Many students stress themselves out and their relationships even begin to effect the outside areas of their life.
Many students around BHS have had their relationships with their friends, teachers, and parents take a turn for the worse because of their long-term relationships with their partners. Students have also begun to miss school because they were so crushed over the boyfriend or girlfriend who broke their heart. The best way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to just stay out of long term relationships.
I’m not saying not to have relationships, but it should be kept at a high school level. Students need to understand going into the relationship that they are not going to marry this person, they are more than likely not goingto fall in “real” love with them, and they should realize that it isn’t the end of the world when the relationship ends.
Take it for what it is, but the idea of a long term high school relationship sounds great and being together since high school sounds romantic, but it isn’t realistic. Students will always have these relationships, but everyone will have the realization at one point in their life and will regret the long-term relationships because of the social opportunities they missed out on and the lack of experience these opportunites possessed.
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Ah ha ha ha James you have a biased opinion
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James, we have debated on this subject in class many times.
I just wanted to say that i see your points better now from reading this and they are good ones. But I still do not feel they apply to everyone. Some can handle long-term relationships in a mature and successful way.
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I completely agree!
Great points and an amazing story!
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