"Boyfriends": Pleasurable, Interesting, and Easy to Connect With

  Being a teenage girl, connecting and sympathizing with Suzan Allen Toth's relationship with Peter was pretty easy. As Toth described her gut-wrenching fear of never having a boyfriend and becoming an "Old Maid", I too recalled those times when I was 15 and having those same feelings. My fear of always being alone was only emphasized when my boyfriend unexpectedly broke up with me after a month. However, like Toth, I too "found" my own Peter that summer. My Peter was someone I had known forever, but never truly connected with. This person tentatively reached out to me, while I, like Toth, responded in an almost wild manner. Though, I did not randomly lick my Peter, I still had no idea what to do, so I just began avoiding him out of fear. Yet, I did learn from Peter that summer; I learned to never expect anything and just allow the unexpected to occur. With such strong feelings already arising in the introduction, my interest was heightened, as I listened what her story was and watched to see if she would respond differently than I did. I envied Toth’s amazing relationship, but loved how she always made it realistic and even awkward, as if she were my good friend and was trying not to make me too jealous. Realistically, our stories culminated in the same conclusion, she “simply rode away from [her] Peter”, and I simply flew away from mine.