Trying to date again after a messy break-up is incredibly hard. In-fact, it becomes one of your biggest fears. Will it end in heartbreak? Will I be let down again? You begin to think these things before anything even gets serious, but who’s fault is that?

So, the road to starting fresh, trying to build a life and in some cases, a new love, for yourself is no easy feat. You face so many hurdles, so many complications that you almost give up. Or give in to the fact that you could be lonely forever (dramatic, I know, but I am only 20).

Then out of the blue, here comes your Prince Charming, who, like in every generic rom-com, you like but keep your distance, maybe he’s not your perfect idea of what you wanted but he’s persistent, he’s kind, he’s attractive and he forces you to give him a chance.

You do and you’ve found yourself becoming happier than you’ve been in a long, long time. Maybe this could be different? Maybe he’s different than the others?

But what do you do when just like that, his responses become fewer and fewer, he distances himself from you, he reads your texts but waits an abnormally long time to reply, like it’s a game. You become stuck in “limbo” hoping he’ll just tell you you’re being neurotic and that he’ll assure you that everything is okay. Sometimes in times of uncertainty, all we need is to be told that everything is okay and just like that, the simple, bland word of “okay” becomes something full of meaning and positivity.

Alternatively, if things aren’t okay, it’s nice to be put out of your misery, to have the truth come out without being misled or played with. But that doesn’t happen either in “limbo”.

Limbo is an awful, unsettling feeling, you feel as though the ground is crumbling beneath your feat. You could slip and fall at any moment or it could suddenly all be fixed. It just takes that other person to say that magic word, “okay”.