Ashley and I have been friends since kindergarten. Besides being in the same class, we also live in the same neighborhood, which made us fast friends. We experienced everything together, including friends, boyfriends, family problems, from then until the middle of high school. I started to develop a different group of friends and Ashley was no longer the popular one between the two of us. Then, at the beginning of junior year, a series of events and differences led to Ashley and I's relationship falling apart. Our relationship had many aspects attributed to the end of our friendship. Up until the beginning of our freshman year of high school we had very few comparison problems. I'm still not sure if this was because I was more submissive to her and let things go, or because we were in such a good place that these things didn't matter. Through the analysis I returned to for the sake of this article, I noticed important aspects in the chapters covered in class that led to the end of my friendship with Ashley. The most important terms that apply to Ashley and I's relationship include relationship challenges, avoidant style, indirect arguments, similarity, and death. One thing that started the problems Ashley and I had was relationship challenges, which are events or situations that pose a problem. threat to the relationship. The first year had many turning points in our lives because of these challenges. We both entered what is known as the hardest year of high school, which caused a lot of stress outside of our friendship. I had become an upperclassman in my cross country, which required me to put in a lot more effort, which would then lead to me becoming captain during my senio......middle of paper...... to manage all the problems that have accumulated. Since our relationship took so long to end, I think I got tired of it and gave up on her. Regardless of whether the way I handled our relationship and its ending was wrong or not, I learned from it. For future situations with similar personalities, I understand that they require time and effort, and if I want to participate in these relationships, I must dedicate myself to them and continue to dedicate myself. Along with this, I also learned that sometimes you have to be selfish in life. People can be toxic and can hurt you more than you can help them, and sometimes you need to do what's best for yourself. More importantly, I've learned that relationships are difficult and require work, and just realizing that in itself helps me by making me more aware of what serious relationships, whether platonic or romantic, require..