Quitting Dating Isn’t “Giving Up”

Shame, failure, and other things single people shouldn’t have to feel.

Photo by the author.

We were raised with Quitter Culture. We were taught to view quitters as failures, weak, or not tough enough to finish. We were imbued with the idea that the destination is all that matters, who cares how much we hate the journey. Quitter Culture kept us playing sports we didn’t like, learning instruments that bored us senseless, but…