Peer Pressure

  • Sara

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    feliz flea:
    Its not that I didn't care what my friend's boyfriend thought of me, but no matter how many times I said no and no matter how many times I said I didn't want to he wouldn't shut up about it.
    Then leave the situation?
    December 20th, 2008 at 01:48am
  • Gibbers

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    Peer pressure is a huge part of my school. One of my friends was crying one day because she couldn't get a boyfriend and everyone was telling her to get a boyfriend or she'd be a loner for the rest of her life. I was like what the fuck we're freaking ninth graders I don't have a boyfriend/girlfriend but I could reallly care less. Half the student population is on drugs because it's 'cool.' I don't get it, and people call me retarded. The worst is that a group of students were stealing guns. I don't want to know why, but thank god they got caught.
    December 20th, 2008 at 04:26pm
  • fool's paradise

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    Peer pressure is a huge part of my school. One of my friends was crying one day because she couldn't get a boyfriend and everyone was telling her to get a boyfriend or she'd be a loner for the rest of her life. I was like what the fuck we're freaking ninth graders I don't have a boyfriend/girlfriend but I could reallly care less. Half the student population is on drugs because it's 'cool.' I don't get it, and people call me retarded. The worst is that a group of students were stealing guns. I don't want to know why, but thank god they got caught.
    Reminds me of my school.
    Generally, everyone is nice to each other, but, yeah, everyone needs to date someone. Part of my wonders why, and the other part hates myself because no guy wants to date me.
    And, yeah, almost everyone is a pothead.
    December 20th, 2008 at 04:54pm
  • flea haim.

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    Sara:
    feliz flea:
    Its not that I didn't care what my friend's boyfriend thought of me, but no matter how many times I said no and no matter how many times I said I didn't want to he wouldn't shut up about it.
    Then leave the situation?
    I know, and you're right because I should have.
    December 20th, 2008 at 05:57pm
  • nicole4rmthaco

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    I was peer pressured into smoking weed and I wish I would have never done it... my heart raight went up and I had to go to the hospital...apperently Im not supposed to smoke or drink on my medicene that I take for my bipolar so it didnt do any good for me ... my freinds all did it so I did but I will never do it again cus it just wasnt worth it ... plus its a drug and illegal and I could go to jail and me personally I dont want to go to jail ever...
    December 21st, 2008 at 06:42am
  • ImaginaryFriend.

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    I'm scared shitless because quite honestly I have no backbone; you can manipulate me easily and I am guillable. One day I swear I might do something that I never wanted to do.
    December 21st, 2008 at 01:05pm
  • totheark.

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    I've never been peer pressured because it doesn't work on me. People have tried to make me smoke, but I always said no. I smoke now, but that's because I decided I wanted to.

    Although, I will admit that I have been guilty of attempting to peer pressure others, but as I've got older I've matured and realised that it's not my place to try to make people do things I want them to do. It's their life, and my life is my life.
    December 21st, 2008 at 04:29pm
  • barely legal

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    Back when I was with my boyfriend last year, I was unable to have sex because the pain, for some reason, was unbearable and I didn't know why. I didn't tell many people and I insisted that my boyfriend didn't tell any of his guys mates, which left them guessing about our sex life. All he would say is that we hadn't had sex. However, once we'd been together a while, people kept asking why we weren't having sex, and whether I was 'frigid' or whether I was being stubborn. It really got to me because it just felt like everybody was having it and yet I couldn't, and yet it was somehow 'expected' of me. I cried like a baby every time it didn't work because I was so sick of it. Even the "Are you having safe sex?" posters around college got to me because I just felt so abnormal.

    When it finally worked, I was so happy, and a part of me hates that. A part of me hates the fact that I had to give into peer pressure and feel 'normal' in order to be happy. I just couldn't deal with the fact that I was doing things differently to everybody else.

    I see a few of my friends nowadays feeling the pressure of not having a boyfriend or being virgins and it breaks my heart because I know exactly how they felt and yet I can't offer any inspirational advice about how to cope with it because I didn't cope.

    If peer pressure was a person, I'd stab it in the neck. Cry
    May 2nd, 2011 at 01:23pm
  • swell

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    I used to be peer pressured into teasing and making fun of this girl who went to my school when I was younger. I thought she was a tad annoying but I didn't mind her. She moved to a different school (same school, different campus) and I moved there too two years ago.
    Now she's one of my best friends. I did apologise for giving her crap when we were at the same school, and luckily she forgave me. I felt like the worst person in the world.

    I don't let anyone peer pressure me now since I tell them to eff off if they do. But I do peer pressure in the sense that when I pressure them, it's for their own good. If that makes sense. I would never ever pressure someone to do something they didn't want to do. And if I could sense that they didn't want to do it, I'd back off immediately.
    August 9th, 2011 at 01:00pm
  • Jenna's happeh

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    Do I?

    Well, now I don't do all of this.

    I wore slutty clothes and had sex because of peer pressure. I regret it.
    July 24th, 2013 at 05:45am