50 Quotes To Help You Cope With The End Of Your Almost Relationship

50 quotes

Be sad. Be mad. Be whatever. You have the right to feel what you feel. Just because your relationship wasn’t Facebook official, doesn’t make it any less meaningful.

“Heartbreak hurts, no matter how long you were with someone, no matter if you were dating or not. Once your heart is invested, it hurts when it ends.”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Heartbreak, Dating

“I called it an almost relationship. My friends called it a booty call. I called it love. My friends called me crazy.”

— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, booty call, crazy

“Maybe we were ‘grey’, maybe we were ‘just friends’, maybe we were an ‘almost’. And maybe that was okay for you. It wasn’t for me.”

— Suzzy Win, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Just Friends, Almost

“Almost is another word for nothing.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Nothing, Almost

“Be sad. Be mad. Be whatever. You have the right to feel what you feel. Just because your relationship wasn’t Facebook official, doesn’t make it any less meaningful.”

— Staci Muzzy, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Mad, Sad

“Your almosts are practices, bringing you that much closer to what you may not know you want.”

— Valerie Bevilacqua, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships

“The worst thing about an almost relationship is the potential that could have been but never was. It leaves you aching for month’s even years after things have ended. It leaves you yearning, unjustifiably, for a future that will never exist with the other person.”

— David Lorenzo, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Disappointment, Future

“I’m worth more than an ‘I’ll try’. I deserve more than an ‘I miss you’ text. I am more than just potential. I’m worth more than just an almost. You need to want me in your life enough to actually do something to make sure I’m there.”

— Zybelle Slouanne Esmena, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, deserving, Self-Worth

“Be happy your almost relationship never turned into an actual, honest to goodness relationship. Now you can find someone that fits you better. Someone that realizes what you deserve. Someone that thinks you’re worthy of the title of girlfriend.”

— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Moving On, silver lining

“What happened to wanting the best for yourself? What happened to wanting forever with someone, instead of settling for someone who frankly doesn’t care about you?”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Forever, Settling

“For my sake, and my sanity, I decided that I couldn’t keep trying to figure out where you fit into my life. So I stopped trying.”

— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Sanity, goodbye

“Don’t get too caught up in your imagination. In your mind, your almost boyfriend was perfect…but wait, was he really? Are your feelings based on what your relationship and this person actually were, or what they could’ve, would’ve, should’ve been?”

— Paige Sheffield, thelala.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Imagination, Fantasy

“Dating is hard enough for our generation without almost-relationships confusing the hell out of us.”

— Erica Gordon, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Dating, Modern Dating

“Even though it hurts today and maybe for a while, but one day you will cherish all the good times you have had together. Although it was not a happy ending you might have expected, it was something. A lesson in life, a blessing in disguise. You will be okay, eventually.”

— Melody Yong, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, silver lining, Lessons

“If someone likes you enough they will either say it or show it. You wouldn’t be left wondering and guessing and waiting for things to happen. Both men and women know how to win someone they really want to be with.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, actions, expressions

“We let go because we deserve someone that makes you feel good 100% of the time. We let go because we shouldn’t just like half of one person. We let go because we want someone to love us, as deeply as we love them.”

— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Love, deserving

“Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.”

— Linda Alfiori, amazon.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Alone, Boyfriend

“Almost relationships have a lasting effect on us and all our future relationships. They shake us up and our belief system. They create trust issues. They make us feel that we don’t deserve real relationships and that we somehow always get stuck in the vicious cycle of the almosts because we are not…”

— Kiran Karamchandani, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Trust Issues, Self-Doubt

“I wasn’t hurt that he didn’t want to be my boyfriend. I was aware that it wouldn’t lead to anything, and I was sadder, about more than anything, that I would eventually be losing a friend.”

— Rebecca Fields, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Boyfriend, Friendship

“In the end, I just truly hope we both find people who finally won’t be our almost.”

— Shaun Ferrer, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationship, Almost, Future

“Your feelings are valid and shouldn’t be minimized.”

— Valerie Bevilacqua, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Valid, Feelings

“Instead of imagining what could’ve happened with your almost-boyfriend, focus on yourself. Go out with your friends. Focus on your goals and passions. Go to that yoga class you stopped going to. Read the books that have been on your reading list for the past six months.”

— Paige Sheffield, thelala.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Self-Love, Passions

“I have been holding on to a relationship that’s not quite there. To a commitment that isn’t. To a love that doesn’t give it’s all. To a person who’s not all in.”

— Zybelle Slouanne Esmena, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Love, Commitment

“One day you’re going to find yourself in an ‘almost relationship’ that will seamlessly flow into an actual relationship. It may just take a little longer than you hoped for.”

— Elizabeth Thompson, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Relationship, Official

“For anyone dealing with end of an ‘almost relationship,’ I know it sucks. It’s a major blow to your ego and you’re going to need a few days to wallow and feel sad. Do it. Complain to your friends all you want. But remember that you’re going to move on very quickly. This person wasn’t in your life lo…”

— Elizabeth Thompson, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Moving On, Wallow

“The one thing we must always remember about ‘almost’ relationships is that if it was meant to be, it would have been.”

— Andrea Davis, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Destiny, Fate

“You try to act like you’re not hurt, you secretly hope he’s going to realize he messed up and you’ll take him back. But he doesn’t come back; in fact he barely even looked back at the wreck he left behind because to him it wasn’t a big deal. To him you weren’t really dating so why should it matter t…”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Dating, Leaving

“We were almost something. And ‘almost’ really, really sucks.”

— Suzzy Win, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Almost, Misery

“‘We had a thing,’ you say, not knowing what to categorize a relationship where you never kissed, but joked about getting married a little too often to be taken as funny.”

— Paige McPhee, narcity.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, label, married

“He needs 'space' and 'time,' as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”

— Kathryn Stockett, amazon.com

Tagged: Almost Relationships, Time, Space