[April Masini, your AskApril]

You’ve been through a lot of ups and downs in your personal life in a very short amount of time. Teenage years are hormonal years and without denigrating your feelings, please understand that you’re probably up and down and all over the place because your body is growing and trying to stabilize all at the same time.

Your idea to be single and work on yourself is a very good one. You have to also practice putting yourself in other people’s shoes — or empathizing. Not everyone does things the way you would do them, and you have to have patience and understanding for other people making mistakes and figuring things out in their own way. The same goes for you with yourself.

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