Mike Zacchio

Being someone who is difficult to love is not an irrational thought or an unfortunate reality. If anything, it is one of the most significant realizations you can make in life. You just cannot let it break you.

The desperation. The disillusion. The dismay. None of it was healthy. My head had to accept reality, my heart would have to shatter before it could mend, and I would have to move on from you entirely. The only way that would happen was with a complete detox.

Everything doesn’t need a title; we just think it does.

When I’m not contributing to Thought Catalog with sappy ramblings about love,dating, and relationships, the majority of my time is spent working my full-time job as a sports reporter — covering mostly high school sports — at my local newspaper.…

Ending your romantic relationship does not necessarily mean you are ending your friendship. That is the choice some decide to make, and that is their personal; but there should be no reason why all communication between the two of you must cease once your Facebook relationship status changes.

How could anyone say how wonderful you are all the while acknowledging that they don’t want to be with you anymore? It was bullshit to me. Maybe it still is, only now I’m the bullshitter.

I want to be with someone who makes me a better person and who makes me want to be an even better person.

There’s a difference between omitting the truth — which is really just a fancy way of saying “lying” — and simply not volunteering information.

I’ve gathered so many pieces of you along the way that the picture should be clear by this point.

Writers are terrible at controlling their emotions, but they are experts at expressing them.

Stop beating yourself up for doing what you felt in your heart to be right.

They told me that it was impossible to love another man’s child as if they were my own, but they were wrong.

There is no good way to reject someone.

The only people who don’t have time for others are those that don’t want to make time for them.

How many of you have ever watched a television show or a movie and said aloud, “This person is so me!” or thought that it would be pretty sweet to have their life as your own?

There will be times in our lives — especially in dating — when it appears that everything is the way it’s supposed to be, and yet something will still be missing.

You were hearing her, but you stopped listening to her.

Dating shouldn’t be a series of strategically planned moves that are more analytical than emotional.