What Is Happening To The Modern Relationship?

Under capitalism, adults must handle their own defense, health (physical and mental), finances, and daily responsibilities. This fuels the popular "I'm not your father, mother, maid, ATM, therapist, bodyguard, nurse, entertainer, or handyman" rhetoric.

Relationships have become minimal: one person merely existing beside another with no duties. People complain that partners offer nothing beyond self-sufficiency, yet they still expect others to pay for their presence (time, energy, or money) while refusing to provide any traditional support they expect to receive in return.

No one wants a useless body taking up space. With robots, toys, and AI meeting most needs, many realize they neither like nor need other humans. When they do have needs, society labels fulfilling them taboo.

People enter romantic relationships for intimate love, not friendship, but nearly every classic love language has been banned or shamed. And with cost of living ever so increasing, people are essentially seeking nothing more than roommates. Procreation in a lab is only a matter of time, society is drifting towards the 'demolition man,' timeline. Sectarian gender political identities and economic pressure has commodified or eliminated genuine human intimacy and support, replacing it with transactional, fear-driven self-interest. 

Liberal democracies, corporate fascism, and libertarian dark triad personalities are killing social bonding And no system offers a replacement alternative. Society is telling everyone to only care about themselves in relationships, what's the point of entering one.the entire system has essentially made the romantic partnership model obsolete because it has stripped away the very foundation of mutual support it was built on.

This isn't a call for gender roles but it is a call for roles, for purpose. Romantic relationships are dying and with current trajectory, they'll soon be dead. Due to a society where vices are virtues, and social-Darwinism is the bloody norm.