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I Don’t Know What I Want In A Relationship, But I Know I Can't Be With You

I need to stop letting the issues in relationships slide because I want a safety net.

Lindsey Ocock
Apr 04, 2018
College of Charleston
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I Don’t Know What I Want In A Relationship, But I Know I Can't Be With You
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I really do not know what I want out of a relationship right now.

But, I have this issue that happens pretty frequently—I talk to someone for an extended amount of time, and then I can’t get over him.

It literally takes forever. I get so into relationships that when the chapter needs to close I keep it open because I feel invested in the person.

I like someone, and I create this image in my head of him, and he's never really as great as the picture. Then, the relationship becomes toxic because the person I made him out to be isn’t real and probably doesn't exist because we all have our problems and no one is that perfect.

This ends right now.

I’ve wasted so much time on “fall guys,” and if you don’t know what a fall guy is , he’s basically the backup plan or the one that’s there to come back into your life at any time, so when things are going wrong you just blame all the problems on him.

This is so wrong.

I’ve kept fall guys around for longer than anyone should, and it is time to move the heck on.

I tell my friends to move on all the time, but I never take my own advice.

I’m 20-years-old, and I have so much of my life to live — I need to stop letting the issues in relationships slide because I want a safety net.

I’m on my way to being a girl boss and any boy who doesn’t treat me like a #queen needs to be kicked to the curb.

I’m thankful for my BFF that told me the cold hard truth about this whole thing — I’m DEF not perfect and I’m sure this will happen again at some point, but I want to go into the next two years of college with a clear head.

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