The 7 Stages Of A Bad Relationship (That No One Talks About)
1. Pretending to be someone you are absolutely not.
By Chelsea Fagan
1. Pretending to be someone you are absolutely not.
Everything is fresh, a clean slate, and you’re two brand-new people who are embarking on mutual discovery: time to totally lie to them. For now, you’re the kind of reserved girl who nibbles her food, crosses her legs at the ankle (crossing at the knee is for trollops), and laughs at all of his dumb jokes. You have refined interests, and a book club on Tuesdays, and many important thoughts about things that you learned at college, where you definitely didn’t spend most of your time doing body shots.
You have your whole relationship to let the inner hot mess seep out of your pores like a fine oil, this part is for the beautiful lie.
2. Studying the ex to at once distance and familiarize yourself.
Once you become aware of the ex, and have enough proximity to study her — a Facebook page, a LinkedIn page, a defunct Twitter from 2011 where she wrote two tweets about her upcoming tough mudder and hashtagged them #beastmode — it’s time to take the lowest road possible. She becomes at once your…
