Exactly - loading all your need for companionship, relationships and love onto a single person and relationship (and type of relationship) is guaranteed to cause disappointment- it’s too much for person. I’ve been happily married for years, and key to that is other friends, companions and family.
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diaphanous@feddit.org 16 hours agoI think it’s also a symptom of our society overvaluing romantic relationships and the nuclear family, at the expense of friends, other family, and general community. When you combine that with the traumatic experiences some have in romantic relationships, they have nowhere to turn to for emotional connection and support.
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Back in pre-agriculture days, humans would sit around every night by the fire and interact with the rest of the tribe. That's what we spent 99% of human history doing. Farming isolated us from the tribe and put every family in their own house. Then the Industrial Age gave the family distractions like newspapers, radios, and movies. Currently we've got a phone to distract us all the time.
diaphanous@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Don’t forget the glorious idea of private property!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 16 hours ago
People always had private property.
chocrates@piefed.world 16 hours ago
Always seems like a stretch. Not all cultures had the concept