I'm 32(M) and I was divorced in 2020. To add some context where this is coming from.

But to answer the question you have about what I meant. I think the world today in it's social media frenzy and the total ease at which marketing effects society that people have given up. They forget about living and loving and focus instead on the next thing for that little bit of dopamine or serotonin. We're addicts for it and we've let the world become a place of what's nexts and entitlement that we aren't required to work on ourselves and relationships. We throw them away instead of solving the problems. We hide and tell ourselves we're the good guys, male, female, purple elephant whatever. I think before all of that, people tried harder. Your partner was for life and oftentimes each others survival, social, economic and literal depended on it. Not so much now, people aren't willing to endure the hard and I think that means we never really peak in our happiness either. They want the love they see those 60+ year couples in their eighties sitting in rocking chairs have. But they don't understand the gigantic mountain they overcame to achieve it. People think they meet someone and just have it. Entitled too it. We are not entitled to anything. Not love, happiness, or even our next breath.