A Millennial’s Guide to Overcoming Heartbreak and Finding Love
Whenever Selena Gomez is mentioned in gossip, people always bring up her ‘failed’ relationship with Justin. Content creators spread Selena Gomez’s song “Lose You to Love Me” with a montage of pictures. Photos of Selena, Justin, and Hailey show the love triangle timeline. And I, trapped in the gossipy web, watch one video and then one hundred more. That short period of watching SJH content and listening to opinion pieces about them triggered a memory I thought I had put to rest long ago.
My ‘Failed’ Relationship
Like Selena, I was in one of those relationships.
Like Selena, I was that one person they left before they married someone else a few weeks later.
I didn’t get to dry my eyes before that person married and had kids with someone else. It was a whiplash of the worst kind.
Before the Selena, Justin, and Hailey situation, there was me, *June, and *Juliza with the loud red lipstick and bleach blond hair. In 2006, June came into my life like a “Wrecking Ball.” His easy banter and presence filled every room he entered. I couldn’t help but look when we were in the same room, and the more time I spent around him, the more I wanted to be a metal stuck to his magnet. It was so bad; I wanted to count every freckle on his body…
