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My frustration isn't much about the same old topics and people behind them, but rather the refusal of people to agree on problems and offer some hope for improving the dating scene.
Perhaps we should get the UN Security Council involved.
The dating scene is a disaster. If there were a random telephone survey asking that, many respondents would agree. People who personally are satisfied - good for them - but the situation is toxic for society and it's time for that to be acknowledged on the forum. But I suspect that an everyone-for-himself/herself attitude is an underlying reason for many of the problems listed in post #1.
The dating scene is a disaster. If there were a random telephone survey asking that, many respondents would agree. People who personally are satisfied - good for them - but the situation is toxic for society and it's time for that to be acknowledged on the forum. But I suspect that an everyone-for-himself/herself attitude is an underlying reason for many of the problems listed in post #1.
I doubt that. Most normal people have much more to worry about than the "dating scene." They don't even know what "the dating scene" is.
You need to get out more. Your world is very tiny.
The dating scene is a disaster. If there were a random telephone survey asking that, many respondents would agree. People who personally are satisfied - good for them - but the situation is toxic for society and it's time for that to be acknowledged on the forum. But I suspect that an everyone-for-himself/herself attitude is an underlying reason for many of the problems listed in post #1.
I don't see a point in conversing with unreasonable, mean-spirited people.
Someday there will be that kind of random survey, and if it properly accounts for people who are long out of the dating scene due to marriage or whatever, it will confirm what I'm saying. Though it's safe to assume just from the documented highest rate ever of people not in committed relationships that there's a big problem.
Should I bother with my own poll here just to take the temperature? It doesn't seem worth the resulting hostility. I guess denial is why there's constant back-and-forth in Relationships threads.
I don't see a point in conversing with unreasonable, mean-spirited people.
Someday there will be that kind of random survey, and if it properly accounts for people who are long out of the dating scene due to marriage or whatever, it will confirm what I'm saying. Though it's safe to assume just from the documented highest rate ever of people not in committed relationships that there's a big problem.
I've seen credible surveys (e.g., not CD polls) that many people haven't even been on dates, physically intimate, or whatever in the past year. None of this should surprise anyone who reads online forums or knows many singles.
I am sure you understand that "unmarried" isn't the same as "not in a committed relationship."
Try again, and please provide longitudinal data to prove trends over time.
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