Yeah. There’s actually good evidence we were happier when we had a small choice of partners who we grew up with and then had to select from. Divorce rates were lower because people tried harder to make it work. Today we have the illusion of an endless scroll worth of partners so it’s easier to throw in the towel and start again, looking for that storybook romance Disney et al promised us.
It was just a thing comedians did to sympathise with people who couldn’t get partners.
Yeah. There’s actually good evidence we were happier when we had a small choice of partners who we grew up with and then had to select from. Divorce rates were lower because people tried harder to make it work. Today we have the illusion of an endless scroll worth of partners so it’s easier to throw in the towel and start again, looking for that storybook romance Disney et al promised us.