“Just because it ended, doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you or it was something you did.”— Melody Yong, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“So before you get upset over the fact that your almost relationship never turned into something real, appreciate it for what it was. Did you have a good time with him? Did he make you happy? Did he make you feel sexy and smart and special? Then what’s so bad about what happened?”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“It was fun hanging out with him. It was fun flirting with him. It was fun kissing him. But that’s over now. And I’m okay with that.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“To my almost relationship, this is me letting go. This is me moving on. This is me for the first time, giving myself what I deserve.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“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
“You’re hurt and you’re allowed to be hurt. You’re allowed to feel sad, you’re allowed to cry and you’re allowed to be feeling the pain.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.”— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, amazon.com
“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.”— E.L. James, amazon.com
“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is -- a sense of loss for something you never had.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“We’re breaking up. Except we can’t break-up because we’re nothing.”— Daniel Palladino, Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel, imdb.com
“I should be sleeping rather than waiting anxiously for him It can’t be helped though He’s my addiction and when he’s gone too long I’m in withdrawal A self-inflicted agony I let him in He never stays long”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“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.com
“They stay and cling to the hope that someday he’ll come around and will commit. It’s a huge waste of time and energy, and it really does a number on your sense of self.”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com
“I can't say that I miss it the way it used to be because whatever it's been, I've never had the opportunity to claim it, to have it, to hold it.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com