Zeynep Gocmen

nights spent crying alone on your bed or staring at city lights from a distant window, wondering if anyone could ever understand the shape of your interior world.

And in that absence, I feel the yearning. I feel the hunger for a life that holds me together when everything else wants to pull me apart. I owe myself a good life because no one else will build it for me. I owe myself a life that doesn’t flinch in the face of imperfection, that doesn’t crumble under doubt, that doesn’t surrender to fear.

but what do I know? I’m just a hater without a boyfriend.

“Being single gives you this ultimate freedom to say and do what you want. It is absolutely not every woman, but I do notice that we can become more beige and watered-down online when in a relationship – myself included.”

There is something cringy and embarrassing about constantly posting your partner these days

icked out by seeing too much boyfriend content

it is now fundamentally uncool to be a boyfriend-girl

“having a boyfriend typically takes hits on a woman’s aura”