I have a friend who is a very good friend to me, but he hurts me a lot physically. He is really nice, but every time I do something that annoys him, even if something just slips out of my mouth that annoys him, he will hit me, kick me, or hurt me in another way. One time I was just walking wih him, and when he bent down to get a drink of water, he kicked me where it realy hurts. And he kicked me really hard. I didn’t do anything to him, but he really hurt me then. Physically and mentally. I just went into the bathroom and cried, because someone i thought was my friend had just done that to me. Last week I said “yo mama” randomly. I didn’t even say it to him (in fact, I wasn’t even saying it to anyone but myself), but he got really, really angry. He threw a bottle at me, and it wasn’t a sharp bottle or anything, but he threw it so hard that the flat part of it broke my skin and made me bleed. I don’t know if he knows that he hurts me, and I know he doesn’t feel bad. But I feel bad. He threatens me alot, and I just hope that he can stop or realize how much he is hurting me. It just hurts me when someone I think is my friend wants to do something like that to me. So yeah. I know how you feel.

Lots of times I’m so worried about my stuff I just can’t hold it in anymore. I’ll just sit down on my bed and cry. I get worried about lots of stuff, and I don’t like it.

Just yesterday I said to a friend of mine that I don’t understand why another person I know dislikes me so much. I can feel it through their body language and lack of eye contact when I talk to this person. I wonder what it is about me they don’t like. I am never disrespectful or rude to them, so why the cold shoulder? I, however, do not see this person on a daily basis so I am not faced with this situation frequently, unlike yourself.

You are right, it does hurt, but it doesn’t solve the problem. I would love to chat with you about this situation, I would like to help.

It seems to me that teachers in your year level might intervene by setting up discussions on conflicts amongst students. We’ve found in Grade 5 that we need monthly meetings to value diversity and to brainstorm answers to problems. I hope you can talk about it with staff sometime.

Thanks again for your “Hurt”.

(Mr) Leigh