Current mood:	cynical
Current music:	Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy

"That's Just Who I Am This Week"
Of late, I haven't mentioned Kristin much in my entries on lj. That's b/c for the most part she's shied away from talking to me much in the advanced advertising class. She just seemed to be acting different, more indifferent, if you will. Things progressed a little more on Wednesday though. She wouldn't sit next to me in class and then she was trying to cause me trouble for my assignment when I went up in front of everyone, asking questions she knew I couldn't answer, that she and I had talked about before class (she knew I wasn't aware of certain things). I thought it was a pretty bitch thing to do, but I figured it was just a bad day. In IMs she'd recently been quiet too. I wondered why, until I checked facebook today. She has a new boyfriend.

This caused me to think about how people behave in relationships. I've noticed this in more and more people. When you're single, they tend to act and treat others one way. But once they begin getting into relationships, especially when those relationships become serious, the person's personality changed. Nothing really happened between Kristin and I to merit her being bitchy to me. yet now that she's in a relationship she's turned close to a 180.

One of my thoughts behind it is that people are just throwing faces out there. When you're single you treat people one way, but act differently when you've got a SO. I've mentioned before how Kristin was playing those mindgames earlier this winter with me. Once that died down it seemed like she wanted to be friends. But maybe she was just using me as an option. Now that she's found someone, no need to remain nice-nice, or something stupid like that.

In some cases though, it's a complete personality reversal. When he was single, my dad was actually relatively enjoyable to be around. He'd do things for himself, cook, wouldn't smoke, etc. But whenever he found someone new to have a relationship with, he reverted back to his shit behavior. in a lot of cases, when a person gets into a relatioship they start distancing themselves from their friends too. I know and understand you've gotta spend good time with someone to make a relatioship work, but in many cases people completely isolate and alienate their friends. It's sad, really.

Part of it's a subconcious thing too, people may not realize they are doing it. I personally don't know if I do/did that. I know I changed a great deal in personality since Amanda and I were together. But I was 16 when it started and 19 when it ended. Of course I was different.

Part of it is that I haven't had a long relationship since then, so I can't really say much on my personal behaviors regarding the subject matter. I can only formulate the above opinions based on others actions. Still, I think it's pretty shitty how people change.

And rarely for the better.