“You overanalyze things because you know at any moment someone’s mind can change. Because its happened. So you try and prepare for those types of things. You look for the warning signs so heartbreak doesn’t come as such a shock.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re afraid of something you don’t have any control over. You’re afraid of letting someone in. You’re afraid they are gonna find out everything about you and they’re gonna take off. So you beat them too it.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know you’re scared. I know you think you might mess this thing up. I know you would rather take off running the other way than let someone in close enough to hurt you.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“When things don’t workout you pretend that you didn’t like them anyway.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“You keeping your options open is another way of saying you’re too scared to settle on one person.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you do really like someone, you look for something to be wrong with them.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“You rarely ever openly admit you ‘like’ someone. The moment you admit you like him, is the moment you think everything will fall apart.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com