“You don’t have to date people to fall in love with them. And you don’t have to date people to get hurt by them.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s better to be single than to be in an almost relationship, because almost isn’t enough. You deserve more. You deserve reliability, consistency, love.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’ll get over them when you understand the importance of being valued, respected, listened to, cared for and loved. When you understand that love is more than just drunk texts and likes and flirty comments.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think we’re just gonna have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that.”— Margot Tenanbaum, Margot Tenenbaum, Gwenyth Paltrow, imdb.com
“To avoid getting sucked into an almost-relationship, keep boundaries. Know what you would do for a good friend, what they would do for you, and subsequently, what you would do for a significant other. If you find yourself venturing into bf/gf territory on the regular, it might be time to step back a…”— Paige McPhee, narcity.com
“‘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
“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
“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
“You’ll try to convince yourself that being upset is ridiculous. You’ll tell yourself this person was never actually your boyfriend or girlfriend, so why do you care? Maybe you’ve heard something similar from your friends. But if you do care or miss the person, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with t…”— Paige Sheffield, thelala.com
“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
“Dating is hard enough for our generation without almost-relationships confusing the hell out of us.”— Erica Gordon, thoughtcatalog.com
“Almost relationships mostly end without closure. You may never know why things ended or why it fizzled out, was it you or was it them — and so many other unanswered questions. You will learn that if the relationship was never defined in the first place, then it will end without explanations too.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“That’s what almost relationships are. It’s this invisible abuse we don’t even see affecting us. It’s half love when humans were designed to take in whole love. It’s the kisses and sex and physically and emotionally attached to someone who doesn’t respect you enough to even text you back, because wel…”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“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
“Almost relationships – A new concept our generation is acquainted with. The place where the other person in the relationship is led to believe that a friendship is going somewhere in the direction of a solid committed relationship. But really it isn’t. It’s stuck in one place but it gives the illusi…”— Kiran Karamchandani, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your almosts are practices, bringing you that much closer to what you may not know you want.”— Valerie Bevilacqua, thoughtcatalog.com