The Modern Break-Up

by Daniel Chidiac

“I feel like I’m too extreme. I don’t think I’m cut out to be with someone. I either love them too much or I just don’t care. It’s always one way or the other. Maybe I should’ve been less available to him. I should’ve made it harder for him to get my time.”

Call me a dreamer, call me an idiot, but I won’t give up on the hope that one day a true, lasting relationship will meet me halfway. I put up a big wall sometimes, but I want to spend my life with someone special. I’m not afraid to admit that anymore.

When I give someone a chance, it’s in the hope that maybe, just maybe, they will be the one I don’t have to play games with. Equal attraction, equal love, equal goals. Wouldn’t that be amazing?

I’ve been there so many times, I’m deeply questioning the modern dating scene and what it represents.

We’re impatient when it comes to getting to know someone. We want to know pretty much right away whether we could be with them.

If I’m an idiot for allowing myself to feel emotions, then it’s a tag I’ll gladly take.

Maybe people who know what they have to offer are too loving, too understanding, and too caring to be with someone. I’m too forgiving. Maybe I have to be more of a bitch.

Unlike others, I don’t just give up on someone so easily.

At the end of the day, we choose who we dedicate our time to and who we allow in.

“The problem is, people just don’t have respect these days. The dating game has changed. It’s not like it used to be. Good gestures are appreciated less and less,” he said.

But I will say that, when I wasn’t ready for a relationship, even with girls I was seeing, nothing was good enough. But I didn’t want anything more with anyone. I met beautiful girls, inside and out, but it still wasn’t enough. Nothing was. That’s why when they say, ‘Nothing’s ever good enough for that person,’ maybe it’s true,” Nick replied.