They say that the longer people are stuck swimming in the shallow end of the dating pool, the harder it is to venture out into deeper waters. If you are drowning in the kiddie pool, it will never feel like you're ready for anything more intense than that and the same goes for your love life. Fortunately for cynical singles, we're not the only ones with water wings in the shallow end, there's tons of us learning to swim over here! At this point, we're so damaged by past relationships that we either sabotage the new ones or pick the most predictable jerks on the dating apps. At least they'll be predictable… Well, someone might surprise you one day in the future and maybe one day you'll build up the courage to fall in love the old fashioned way, but until then, there's plenty of toxic fish in the sea.