We know that we are the children of the divorce generation. Working at GE has taught me that at least 50% of Australians are happily divorced or separated. It still surprises me when customers tell me that they're divorced and loving it. Somehow, we've been taught that it's too risky to put that much faith and trust in another person. Many of us don't bother to work things out because time is too valuable. Our time could be better spent leaving, starting over, and meeting other people. Fresh, sparkly, and new is always better, isn't it? People trade in marriages like cars. Relationships, even those bound by marriage, have become as disposable as contact lenses. Time for a new choice of eye colour - who will look good on me this year?
The dating world has gone mad, completely and utterly insane. We've got relationships that fall apart for valid reasons (like infidelity), but we've also got relationships that break up because they are "too perfect" (what the hell?). Maybe I've been out of the game for too long because I don't know how it works anymore. The days of chivalry, romance, and courting are resting in peace. I blame this almost entirely on the fact that every television show or movie promotes the idea that sleeping together on the first date is normal. If you meet someone for the first time and end up in bed with them that night, where's the novelty in that? There is no pleasure in the unwrapping of the package. There is hardly sufficient time to build up healthy anticipation. Sex on its own has become anticlimactic.
Perhaps I'm just being one-sided; everyone's got their own choice of lifestyle, and who am I to judge? Meh, whatever tickles your pickle!