Your Ego Is the Reason You're Still Single.
Eda Dolunay
1 day ago
8 min read
The other night, I was sitting in bed, staring at my phone, wondering why I couldn't just call the person I fancy and say, “I don't want us to be weird with each other.” It was such a simple thing to do, and yet somehow it felt impossible. I could text him, wait for him to text me, reread our last conversation, ask my friends what they thought he meant, check whether he was online, and probably conduct a small-scale FBI investigation into the punctuation he used, but actually telling him I wanted to talk to him felt like too much. And I couldn't help but wonder: when did chasing love become embarrassing?
