Why does rejection have to hurt so badly?
A female age 18-21, *earningtofly writes: I hate that I’m pretty, I hate that boys like me. I hate it, because I have to truly be careful to see through which ones are jerks, and which ones aren’t. I’ve been betrayed once by a very good friend, and the pain from that has weighed heavily on my heart. I feel like I wasn’t good enough somehow, like I didn’t measure up, and all it took was one slutty blonde to take my dear friend’s love and attention from me. That was months ago, and I still feel the hurt and indignance that I did the moment he told me. Last night, another friend of mine sort of “uninvited” me to a fraternity formal and set me up instead with our mutual friend. He will be taking some girl who will be visiting from Florida. He told me he was in a “hard” situation because he really wanted our mutual friend to go, and apparently the mutual friend was going to ask me anyway, before he asked me. It was totally unexpected… and he posed the question in such a way that I couldn’
