Zeynep Gocmen

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

“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.”

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

it is now fundamentally uncool to be a boyfriend-girl

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.

icked out by seeing too much boyfriend content

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.

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