“Sadly, we've become a generation content with being in love with a love that isn't real.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.comTagged: Love, Modern Romance, Modern Love
“Want them when you can’t have them, because this is what you’re used to. And wish they were harder to get when they’re standing right in front of you, placing their beating heart into your hesitant hands.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Modern Dating, Modern Love, Dating
“Often, when you’re out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an ‘option’ that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But so…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.comTagged: Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari, Modern Dating, Dating, Communication
“Someone toying with your heartstrings just because they can isn’t love.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Almost Relationships, Almost Love, Almost Lover, Best Of Me
“How many of us are still heartbroken over a guy we never dated? How many of us still go through old text messages, trying to figure out exactly where everything changed? How many of us replay old conversations and think of what we should’ve said to make us sound more chill, more laid back, less inte…”— Ashley Jones, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Modern Dating, Almost Relationships, Dating, Love
“We live in a world where people are afraid to feel anything genuine, or at the very least, are afraid to show it.”— Melissa Moeller, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Intimacy, Modern Dating, Fear, Feeling
“Asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection -- or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Modern Romance, Relationships, Rejection
“Hell on earth will always be trying to maintain a relationship with someone who is too weak to remain loyal to the idea of a forever with you.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.comTagged: Love, Modern Love, Loyalty
“A 'friends with benefits' in reality is telling you to your face that you're good enough to fuck, but not good enough to invest feelings in.”— Unknown, pinterest.comTagged: Almost Relationships, Dating, Relationships
“Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything related to his feelings for you.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Almost Relationships, Almost Love
“If he really cared about you it wouldn’t be an almost thing.”— Isabelle Zanzer, readunwritten.comTagged: Almost Relationships, Does He Care?
“We were never good mornings because to have a good morning you have to stay the night. We were never just between us smiles because there was never really an us to begin with. We were never holding hands because one of us was always pulling away.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Heartbreak, Lost Love, Almost Relationships, Relationships
“I could earn my masters degree with the amount of time and energy it takes to determine whether or not my casual hookup actually has feelings for me.”— Melissa Moeller, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Modern Dating, Hooking Up, Tinder
“And here’s the incredible thing about women I don’t quite understand: you know when a man is not feeling you yet you still give your all, you continue to try to make it work. Why play that game? Why not just weed out, up front, all the men you know are going to do nothing but cause you heartache and…”— Steve Harvey, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Relationship Advice, Guy Advice
“We're desperate to love. And because we're so desperate, we find ourselves falling for people who we realize aren’t worthy of our love.”— Paul Hudson, elitedaily.comTagged: Dating, Relationships, Love
“It’s very easy to confuse physical attraction with a real connection.”— Josh Hartnett, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Movie Advice, Relationship Advice
“how far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps? how often have you bartered with bone, only to sell yourself short? why do you find the unavailable so alluring? where did it begin? what went wrong? and who made you feel so worthless?”— Warsan Shire, larmoyante.tumblr.comTagged: Unrequited Love, Poetry
“When a man tells you that he is not ready to commit, believe him the first time. You can't convince him that he is ready. You will only be fooling yourself.”— Mr. Amari Soul, amazon.comTagged: Man, Woman, Relationships
“When he texts you, he's thinking about you. When he calls you, he misses you. When he shows up, he wants you. When he suddenly stops doing all of the above for you, he's doing it for someone else.”— Mr. Amari Soul, amazon.comTagged: Man, Woman, Relationships
“You want to play me, I can see your moves. Little do you know, I'm not a toy. This is not a game.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Games