In the past, Bush said, she had also made the mistake of falling into serial monogamy for all the wrong reasons. “What I realize, when I look back at the way I have operated… also by the way as a serial monogamist for a long time, and stuck in relationships that were not good for me… I now look back and go, ‘Oh, it’s not my fault, it’s not their fault.’ Even the guys who f*cked up so bad—and I’ve had a handful,” Bush said.

“What I realize is that I have to own my role in it, because more often than not, I have chosen to date the potential I see in someone and not who somebody is in this current moment.”

“And that’s not to throw shade at anybody,” Bush added. “That’s simply to say, I settled for less, and maybe that’s because I came into the world like a little Ruth Bader Ginsburg and was like an old woman from time that I was born, and the guys just haven’t caught up? I don’t know. But even in the relationships where I’ve been cheated on or f*cked over or they’ve been so toxic, or like, I’ve fallen in love with my best friend after years when I knew it was a bad idea… I finally, years ago, when I got off a roller-coaster in my last relationship with a person who I love but who like, the relationship was so bad for me, I finally went, ‘Enough! Just enough! I’m good, I’m done.’”

Sophia Bush just perfectly summed up how it feels to be single