“You deserve someone who is all in. You deserve someone who is able to meet you on your level. You deserve to be with someone who you can grow with. You deserve someone who is proud of you and proud to be with you.”— Molly Burford, collective.world
“I was so funny. I was scintillating. I wore my fig perfume, which is apparently possible to resist.”— Julie Margaret Hogben, John Carney, Maggie, Cristin Milioti, imdb.com
“Assuming you’ve dipped your toes into the dating waters, odds are you’ve found yourself in a situationship of sorts at some time. Maybe it’s even been a more frequent experience for you than traditional relationships.”— Caroline Bologna, huffpost.com
“Grande-ing is taking a breakup in stride, learning from your experiences with your ex and moving on, knowing you’ll be A-OK on your own.”— Brittany Wong, huffpost.com
“While there's no manual for how to navigate the world of dating while living with a chronic condition, invisible or otherwise, there are plenty of ways to make sure the person you’re seeing is aware of your condition and knows how to support you. In turn, make sure to check in with your partner, bec…”— Marilyn La Jeunesse, teenvogue.com
“There’s a simplicity that comes with messaging someone without worrying where things might lead. In an increasingly opaque and complex dating landscape, it’s refreshing to have that person in your contact list who expects nothing from you but will always respond to a late night 'WYD?' text.”— Katie Bishop, manrepeller.com
“The pleasure of the crush is in how it starts, the uncertainty of it. A crush is a challenge—and a terrifying risk.”— Dana Schwartz, glamour.com
“Modern heartbreak is sick with being watched, it’s breakups playing out on twitter feeds, it’s unfollowed unfollowed unfollowed.”— Tumblr, wont-time-love-us.tumblr.com
“As a lifelong hopeless romantic who goes on dates because 'Yay maybe this is my person, and we fall in love and stay in love forever and then get a rescue dog,' I’m just wondering, super casually, uh: Why did we stop dating with the hope we’d find love?”— Lane Moore, self.com
“I'm in love with Kelly Kapoor. And I don't know how I'm gonna feel tomorrow or the next day or the day after that, but I do know that right here, right now, all I can think about is spending the rest of my life with her. Again, that could change.”— Justin Spitzer, Ryan Howard, B.J. Novak,, imdb.com
“What do you do with someone who you share so much history with but no future? What do you do when things end with words left unsaid, with feelings left unmended?”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Men posting fish photos are signaling that they’d be valuable partners — that they have both the ability to provide resources and the tendency to seek resources beyond what’s currently available.”— Gina Ryder, thecut.com
““Why do young women have sex with men they don’t want to have?” is a question that begs another question: “How has men telling their female peers for the first decade of their adult lives that they aren’t ready for commitment affected women’s self-worth and thus their ability to set sexual boundarie…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“At some point, I think a lot of women get the idea that nothing you have to say about your own dating experience really matters. The message sinks in slowly, over years, that women’s dating pain isn’t really a subject that the experts seem to care about. Obviously, if modern dating culture tortures…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“You’re giving up on love until chivalry becomes a thing again, until modern dating burns to the ground and people start being honest and open about their true feelings.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you’ve held someone you love and watched three to ten hours of a critically acclaimed drama, you’ve experienced the peak of human happiness.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“If you’ve held someone you love and watched three to ten hours of a critically acclaimed drama, you’ve experienced the peak of human happiness.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com