On self-proclaimed “commitment issues.”

“I feel like you want to think what you’re feeling is really deep, like some seriously profound existential shit. But to me, it looks like the most tired, the most average thing in the world, the guy who is all interested in a woman until the very moment when it dawns on him that he has her. Wanting only what you can’t have. The affliction of shallow morons everywhere.”
― Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

On self-proclaimed “commitment issues.”