Being Outside The Box!

I haven't really pushed myself outside my comfort zone that much, but there was this time where I did push myself.  I was a Junior in high school and I was dating a Sophomore but we were the same age.  We were dating for a little over 7 months.  Throughout those 7 months, my mom kept nagging and nagging me that she didn't like my boyfriend.  I didn't really care at the moment if she liked him or not until I finally realized how bad she treated him throughout those 7 months. She would treat my ex-boyfriend way better than she actually treated my current boyfriend at the time.  My family's opinion means the world to me.  I would like to have a boyfriend where my entire family can get along with.  One day, I kept looking at the past of my relationship.  I never thought about how much we had problems with each other until I realized how much my mom hated him.  We used to argue all the time.  There was never a time where we were happy with each other.  We would fight over the littlest things and it would drive me crazy but I never got myself to break up with him because I loved him.  I finally gave in and took my mom’s advice.  I threw 7 months down the drain and broke up with him because I was never happy with him.  At first, I thought it was a bad idea because I knew we could have fixed everything.  But now, I’m finally happy with the choice I had made.  I had never really liked breaking up with people because I would feel bad in the end.  Now, I’m a lot stronger and I need to put my needs before everyone else’s.  If I feel like it’s not working out, then I will be the bigger person and end it on my own.  I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and did what I had to do to be happy again.