Personal Essay: How To Start A Stressful Relationship

Stress is something people always have. When you start a relationship, it can bring a lot of stress, and when I started dating my girlfriend Gabby, it was no different. In the beginning of a relationship, people go through so many new challenges that brings stress upon them: the first time talking to them, the first time texting them, and building up the courage to ask them out. People go through this every day and it never gets less stressful.

Gabby and I met in anatomy class, Sophomore year of high school (she was a Junior); I found her very attractive from the start, and I didn’t say anything to her for a while, until one day we were doing a lab in class, we had to measure the temperature of our hands after putting them in hot water and

The next stressful task came when I had to meet Gabby’s parents – which is scary just thinking about. I remember her inviting me over, and meeting her mom in the driveway when I got there. Her mom was very nice and I really liked her right away; her dad was a different story. I remember asking Gabby if he was nice, she straight up told me no. Finding this out made me scared. When he finally got home from work I went over to say hi and to shake his hand; all he said was “hi” – in a rude way – and didn’t even shake my hand. After a while Gabby’s mom and dad got divorced and made going over to her house a lot easier – her dad was not a very nice person.

After meeting the parents, you have to meet the rest of the family. Gabby has a very big family that I still had to meet: grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins; the first time I met the family was the Christmas party that her grandmother has every year. The days before the party were very stressful because I knew that I was going to do – or say – something stupid when I got there. So, the day of the party came, and everything went really well I really liked her family – and I’m pretty sure they liked