This is really a monumental societal change.
3rd spaces are nearly completely destroyed, and online seems to be the main option for ppl now.
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i'm sort of like this and i don't see it as sad.
i was "married" (in quotes because it was illegal for me to be married at the time) and both internal and external stressors taught me that i got less significantly fulfillment out of the efforts & sacrifices necessary to maintain that long term relationship than i do now that i've been single for the last decade+; so i stopped stressing myself with the belief that i need to be partnered.
it's definitely sad if you get more out of being partnered than single, but i suspect that it's not true of a significantly large number of people and that most are just taught to believe that they should be partnered and that, in turn, causes people to lament lacking partnership out of ignorance that they don't really need it.