Why modern relationships are breaking up so fast
Recent research has revealed that more relationships are breaking up today than ever before while marriages are continuously ending in divorce. Today people barely spend half a year or even some a month in a relationship before things of sideways and then the term ‘moving on’ comes to use.
Surprisingly, we are so eager to meet new people but we are afraid of getting to know them. We prefer to spend a full day with hundreds of people or tens of friends and just an hour with the persons we pretend to love yet the reverse is the better option.
In what is highly referred to as the dotcom era; WhatsApp chats, Facebook messaging, texts (SMS) and video calls have replaced physical meetings among so many couples. Whereas there is continued communication in this, there is very little or no emotional connect in the entire practice. No wonder it doesn’t last before this becomes a bore to at least one of the partners.
In a world where our hearts have tested the bitterness of a heart break, we seek perfection in others that we ourselves cannot even match. We are too scared to share a piece ourselves (opening up), letting others in and compromising with their imperfections.
We keep on forgetting and sometimes intentionally ignore it that love is about the ability to compromise with one another. We aren’t ready to say sorry or the least forgive those that apologise for their mistakes. We simply want to move on.
We are too afraid to be hurt yet we are so eager to explore romantic possibilities. In the end, we resort to simple chats whose end target is a one night stand, a catch up with a friend with benefits or perhaps one with no strings attached like many put it among many others.
We are afraid of being vulnerable for even a single day or longest a week. Our illusions about perfect couples compels us to fall so easily without the regard of many factors and the rules of engagement. The rules of being able to let someone in or be vulnerable at some point.
As a result, as soon as things take the smallest twist, then we take off without even putting up a single fight. So is that love or pretence. We dreamily hope that we meet somebody that knows everything there is to know about us but have actually never met us in the real life. It’s high time we wake up and risk our hearts once again.
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