Modern day dating sagaBoy, has the world changed!

Do you remember when your parents were younger? Do you remember growing up?

Everybody had a family back then. In fact, anyone over the age of 26 who didn’t have kids was deemed an “old maid” for a woman, and a “chronic bachelor” for a man. Everyone had kids. That was what people expected. Look at how the world has changed modern dating. Think about it. Boy used to meet girl on the steps of City Hall as they were both running errands. It was the only chance girls and boys had to meet. They said “Hi” they dated, they fell in love, and they had a family. They might have even got married at the same City Hall where they met.

Modern dating is all about sites and apps like “Tinder” where you literally just look at someone’s picture and imagine who they are. Then there’s OkayCupid, Match.com, and eHarmony where a computer software program performs the “boy meets girl” magic right before your eyes. There are hundreds of other dating sites too.

Modern dating is so different to what it used to be. 60% of the population is running around divorced. There are single moms and dads running around all over the place. When our parents were younger that one couple who were getting a divorce were the talk of the town. Now it seems like every couple is getting divorced and kids get shuffled between parents at the weekend.

What About Modern Families?

This leads to another thing. We all have stories in our heads from our parents that we need to have big families to keep the world a happy place. We need to have kids and to fall in love. The problem is, people are getting married a lot later, and don’t want children. Then there are those who do have children and don’t want any more because kids are so expensive in today’s modern world.

Our parents have programmed a lot of us about how life should be, and what we should be experiencing. The problem is that modern dating has changed all of that. Boy doesn’t approach girl anymore, and girl is frustrated beyond belief.

Boy overthinks every little move he makes. Girl doesn’t know what to do or how to understand boys. Girls are walking around with penises and boys are walking around with little vaginas. There are so many variables today in modern dating. That’s why you need to lose the old fashioned story you learned from your parents. The world has changed, not everyone wants big families, and not everyone wants what their parents had.

When our parents first met, they didn’t have to battle technology for someone’s attention. Now when you walk into a restaurant and try to approach someone, it’s like trying to talk to someone and their 5000 “friends.” Trying to get someone’s attention is harder than it was. It used to be boy needed to have the nerve to talk to a girl, and girl didn’t have any other option but to talk to him. Even though their hands were sweating, and they were all nervous, they talked. They went on a date and found they had lots in common. Boy and girl ended up falling in love.

Now, boy won’t even approach a girl. Boy doesn’t know what to do. Girl thinks she has so many options because of all the men she meets online. She’s always there, looking and hoping that today she runs into the perfect man online. Girl soon realizes she really doesn’t have as many options as she thought. Most of it is just noise.

Modern dating is a lot of noise, and false promises. Modern dating is a lot of people who look great on paper, because let’s face it, everyone just puts a superhero version of themselves on their dating profiles. A dating profile shows you who that person wants to be, not who they are now. Modern dating is full of noise. It’s like standing on a street corner in Manhattan with too much stimulation around you. We’re walking around with phones, texting and messaging everyone. We’re looking at Facebook feeds, and we’re just not present. So how the hell does boy meet girl in the world of modern dating?

The family unit has disappeared. Single people are running around with kids. Other people don’t want children of their own, let alone taking on someone else’s. Large families seem to be a thing of the past, unless of course you don’t use birth control and just get lucky. Modern dating is so different. How do you feel about the way things have changed? Do you like modern dating, or do you wish it was like it used to be when we met each other in the old fashioned ways? Let’s really talk about this today!