Love is Braindead

Throughout my life, I've watched a lot of my friends go through shitty relationships, and I've watched the effect those relationships had on everyone else. It started with silly middle school relationships. Better yet, it started with silly middle school INTERNET relationships. Wtf is that shit? So the first person was being somewhat controlled by her boyfriend who lived like four hours away or something like that, and everyone got involved and it started a huge fight and majorly damaged their friendship with her. Then that ended and things got a bit better. Then someone else was dating this guy online who was obviously gay and openly talked about his love (and lust) for some other guy who was ALSO an internet friend. Cute right? She saw these things and was in major denial which is like...wtf. So everyone got involved in THAT and relationships with her were fucked for a while. Then that ended, and things went back to normal.

Then we move on to high school, and we can mostly erase the online boyfriend scenario. The last girl discussed finally starts dating this guy she's been pining for, which obviously involved a lot of drama before she got to that point. HE turns out to be the most controlling fuckass idiot on the planet, and btw the person I despise most in this world, and she can't see it. Even though she saw it with the other girls internet relationship. RETARDED right? They say love is blind. More like love is braindead. This goes on for ages. I can't even explain to you the extent of this relationship, it was so miserable. I lost my best friend for a decent amount of time because of it. She was miserable, we were miserable. I recall a fabulous day where three of us successfully created a list of 100 ways to torture and kill him. Yes, he was really that bad, and we really had that much time on our hands. So anyway, she's finally done with this relationship and he's still acting that way which I don't even GET but whatever. She's with someone way better now and we did salvage our friendship at some point. But after that, a third girl gets into a relationship with a dirty, smelly, lying, cheating, freshman. We are seniors at this point. Everyone TRIES to tolerate him for a while, but it doesn't really work out. He cheated. Constantly. With ugly skanky girls...a couple of whom MY stupid exboyfriend later hooked up with, actually. But I'm not getting into HIM right now. So this girl starts to have like zero self esteem and is getting kind of depressed. MY relationship with her stays in tact but a lot of others do not. Regardless, she fits into the "love is braindead" category as well, as she knows everything he's doing and stays with him. After watching two of her best friends go through similar horrible things previously. I'm not sure she's yet realized just how stupid it all was, but she has broken up with him and moved on finally. But now HER friend from college is dating this guy who apparently cheats on her a lot, and this friend wants to marry this guy. What the hell?! Not to mention the friend saw what she went through...idk.

My point is, I don't FUCKING GET IT. That is just a sample of what I've seen/experienced. I've fallen in the LiB category too momentarily, I will admit that. What kind of twisted minds...ugh >.< I can't even discuss it any further.



(SIDE NOTE: I mean no harm to any of these girls because they are all still my friends and the past is in the past. And the present drama I avoid. Or try to at least.)

(SIDE SIDE NOTE: I realize this was a confusing and difficult post to follow. Or it would be, if someone was reading it.)

(ONE MORE: I happen to love my current boyfriend very much and none of this relates to him whatsoever. Just...clarifying. Lol.)